Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-24
BOSTON BANDIT IS KILLED
Riddled with Bullets After Killing
Two and Wounding Eleven.
THREE BATTLES WITH POLICE
Three DesperadOes Run Amuck in
Hub suburb While Trying TO
Escape Arrest for
Murder.

BOSTON. Mass, July 23.-After three
deadly battles between three desperadoes.
the police and a small army Of citizens, the
first encounter being late Tuesday night in
a bar ROOM the second last evening in the
peaceful streets Of jamaica Plains and the
third early today in the quletude of a GEM
etery, one OF the bandits was riddled with
bullets and killed, a second, believed to be
wounded was being searched for at a. m.
today. while third was taken last evening
| in the South station.
The desperadoes left behind them over
their trail of mile and half Two dead
and eleven wounded. All are believed to
! be foreigners
The desperate captured is believed to be
Giuseppe Device. He is charged with muir
der, having been identified by four men as
one OF the three who shot up" the saloon
on Tuesday night
! The desperadoes' career OF terror started
on Tuesday night by the shooting up" of
the saloon of winterston & McManus on
Washington street. Shortly before the
closing hour. when the bar room was full
of men, three men. apparently Italians,
made their appearance at the door and
shouted, 'All hands up!''
When the shooting was over It was found
| that Frank ]. Drake had been killed
Patrick Doran had received a bullet in the
abdomen and Thomas Wnterston had been
shot at the base of the skull and in the left
arm
The police made a careful search all night
long without result Early yesterday two
Of the men made their appearance at a
house on Bourne street and at the point
of revolver demanded that they be given
food.
At o'clock last night they were discov-
cred in Calvary cemetery.
Rain of Bullets TrOm Bandits.
When the desperadoes found that they
| were pursued they drew their revovers
and, with yell, began firing on all sides
The first person hit was Mrs. Della Falion
who was walking down South street Off
Ger Inglss then received bullet in the leg
The men passed through Cunningham Field,
Lee street and into New Keyes street, down
which they ran directly into Washington
street On Washington street. where cleo
trio cars are passing almost necessarily and
hundreds of people were walking. the two
men fired shot after shot. They com.
I'manded everybody to hold up their hands
and even ordered the motorman Of an ap-
preaching car to stop. The motorman
dropped behind the dashboard and the con-
ductor, Thomas Moore, who stepped off the
car to see what was the trouble, received
a bullet in the leg. Michael Flynn picked
up stone to hurl at the bandits and re-
cefved one bullet in the head over the right
ear and another passed over the left ear
knocking off his hat. Patrick McGinn was
shot in the wrist, Thomas Flemming in the
hand and John Nolan received a bullet in
the arm, while John II. Wrightman carries
two bullet holes in his trousers to show
where the bullets grazed the calf of his leg
The men continued on through New
| Keyes street to a sand hill, where they stop
ped, and, according to some men and boys
who watched them. loaded four automatic
revolvers with rolls of cartridges. Through
| Williams street, the men entered Franklin
Park and then passed into Forest Hill
cemetery
Waterman is Shot Down.
Herbert E. Knox, the watchman, VINO
had been on the lookout for the men, came
upon one Of them Unexpectedly and before
he was able to use his pistol he was shot
through the abdomen. Knox died three
hours later.
About day break the officers who had
been guarding the cemetery to prevent the
outlaws escape were given the order to
advance toward the center of the Cemetery
| Scarcely a quarter of an hour later A
man sprang up in front of the officers
at the south side of the cemetery and
started off on a run. The man was bare
footed, ,broken derby covered his head.
torn and ragged coat was on his back
and in one hand he carried a heavy re-
volyer, while from the other dangled a reel
| of cartridges.
For more than mile across the cemetery
the man raced madly over graves, around
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mounds, an ever-increasing mob of police
men following in his wake, All at once
he disappeared in a ravine not 200 wards
| from the main Morton street entrance Ia
the cemetery grounds. But one bit of
shrubbery marked the lower level OF tn.
ravine and into this the man sprung to
make his final stand. In moment ths
sides of the ravine were lined many deem
with the bluecoats, revolvers were brought
TO bear upon the bush In the gully. and
shot after shot was fired into it.
Bandits Body Is RIddIed.
When the rain OF shot was over officsrs
approached the bush, and parting the
leaves, found the desperado's body pierced
by a hundred bullets.
Almost at the same time another comma
| tion was created on the opposite side IF
the main gate, within the confines of the
main cemetery, and man who had re-
fused TO throw up his hands had been
seized and dsarmed Both the dead body
and the captive were taken to the Jamaica
Plains station.
/ Some doubt arising, however as to the
identity Of the captured man. officers were
1 again marched back into the cemetery 10
/ continue the search.
At a. m, the police were tracing large
spiashes Of blood in the cemetery in ths
/ hope OF locating the third bandit.
! Thorough search OF Forest Hills ceme-
terry during the forenoon indicated thac the
man had slipped through the Gordon Of