Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-23
Eleven PEOPLE SHOT
BY TWO DESPERADOES
Thought to Be Men Wanted For ia.
maica Plain Ho|dup and Murder
Four Will Probably Die.

Boston, July 22-One man dead. a
woman probably shot fatally, and eight
others suffering from bullet wounds.
sums up the record to midnight of the
murderous career of two desperadoes,
who last night terrorized the Jamaica
Plan district eluding the pursuit of
hundreds of policemen. Starting in on
Tuesday night by entering a saloon
near the corner of Washington and
Boylston streets, Jamaica Plain, three
men, who are supposed to be Italians.
killed one man. wounded two others
with bullets, and rifing the cash regis
ter, got away with $50. Early this
evening. after the police had searched
for them unsuccessfully all day, two
of the robbers again appeared in
Jamaica Plain, and firing revolvers, ran
through the streets in the most thick
ly settled part of the district, leaving
trail of victims of bullets behind
them. Late tonight the pair We're sup
posed to be hiding in Forest Hill ceme-
terry, which was surrounded by several
hundred policemen.
one of the men is described as being
tall in figure with heavy black
moustache and wearing a soft hat. The
other is much shorter. They We're
passing through back yard when last
seen and the tall man was supporting
the other who was apparently wound
ed They appeared to be Italians. The
victims of the shooting We're:
Dead:
Herbert S. Knox, AZ year; Old, 47S
Canterbury street. Roslindale. night
Waterman at Forest Hill cemetery.
Suffering from bullet wounds:
Mrs. Della Falon, South street, shot
in head. condition critical, at City hos
pital.
Edward McMahone, 81 years. patrol
man of Station 9, Is Pearl street. Dor
chester, abdominal wounds, condition
critical.
Patrolman Thomas Thompson, of
Station 13. shot in the leg.
Patrolman Edmund X. ingalls,, bullet
| in leg.
Patrolman Cox. shot in ankle.
John Nolan, 1872 keyes street, shot
| in arm.
| Thomas Fleming. "a Boylston street
shot in hand.
Thomas Moore, Green street, street
car conductor. shot in leg.
Patrolman McGinn, 13 Meehan street
! bullet in side.
| Michael Flynn. 127 Keyes street
head graZed by bullet.
Driven from their hiding place by
| hunger and fearing that they would be
surrounded by the police who were
searching the neighborhood, the tive
| men appeared on Charles street in
| Jamaica Plain at about dusk, coming
| from the direction of Cunningham
field. Some citizens who had been as
sisting in the hunt for the robbers, saw
| tho men and tried to intercept them
| Whercupon the two started to run anC
with revolver in each hand, fleo
along Charles, South, Lee and keyes
| streets, firing madly and indiscriin-
inately. Mrs Fallon was the first mari
of the murderous weapons. Officer In
| gals was shot next and then MessrS
| Moore, Flynn, McGinn, Nolan. Flem
| ing and Officer Cox received bullets II
succession John II. Wrightman of D
Keyes street was also shot at but the
bullet did not hit him though it pass
ed through his trousers leg.
| Michael Flynn stopped to pick up {
| stone as he saw the fugitives coming
| toward him and instantly one of the
men fired at him. One bullet graZed ms
ear and the side of his head. another
| knocked lis hat off Conductor Mool
| stepped from Il street car on Washing
| ton street to go to his house, just az