Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-07-31
Wild West Performance In a
Suburb Of Boston.
Leave LONG TRAIL Of BLOOD
Bandits Kill Two Persons and
Wound Eleven. Before Be.
ing. Shot Down.


Gems, the first encounter being in a
barroom, the second in the peaceful
streets of Jamaica Plains and the
third in the quietude of cemetery,
one of the bandits was riddled with
bullets and killed; second, believed
to be wounded, was being searched for
in the cemetery, while the third was
captured.
The desperadoes left behind them
In their trail of over a mile and a
half two dead and eleven wounded.
The desperadoes' career of terror
started by the shooting up" of the
saloon of Winterston & McManus on
Washington street. Shortly before the
closing hour, when the barroom 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 J. Drake had been
killed, Patrick Doran had received
bullet in the abdomen and Thomas
Wlnterston had been shot at the base
of the skull and in the left arm
The police made careful search
all night long without result, but later
two men were discovered in Calvary
cemetery. When the desperadoes
found that they were pursued they
drew their revolvers and. with a yell,
began firing on all. sides. The first
person hit was Mrs, Della Fallon, who
was walking down South street Off
Ger Ingliss then received a bullet in
the leg. The men passed through Gun
nilgham field, Lee street and into
New Keyes street, down which they
ran directly into Washington street.
Or Washington street, where electric
cars are passing almost necessarily
and hundreds of people were walking,
the two men fred shot after shot.
They commanded everybody to hold
up their hands and even ordered the
motorman of an approaching car to
stop. The motornlan dropped behind
the dashboard and the conductor,
Thomas Moore, who stepped off the
car to see what was the trouble, re-
ceiyed bullet in the leg. Michael
Finn picked up stone to hurl at the
bandits and received one bullet in the
head over the right ear and another
passed over the left ear, knocking Off
his hat. Patrick McGinA was shot in
the wrist, Thomas Flemming in the
hand and John Nolan received a bullet
in the arm, while John II. Wrigh1man
carries two bullet holes in his trousers
to show where the bullets grazed the
calf of his leg.
Seek Refuge in Cemetery.
The men continued on through New
Reyes street to sand hill, where
they stopped and, according to some
men and boys who watched them.
loaded four automatic revolyers with
rolls of cartridges. Through Williams
street the men entered Franklin park
and thence passed into Forest Hill
cemetery.
Herbert E. KNOX, the watchman
who had been on the lookout for the
| men, came upon one of them unex-
pectedly and before he was able to
use his pistol was shot through the
| abdomen. Knox died three hours
later.
About daybreak 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 the run. The man was barefooted,
| 4 broken derby covered his head, a
torn and ragged coat was on his back
| and in one hand he carried a heavy
| revolver, while from the other dan
gled reel of cartridges
For more than a mile across the
cemetery the man raced madly over
| graves, around shrubbery, through
! gulleys and over mounds, an ever in
! creasing mob of policemen following
| in his wake. All at once he disap-
| peared in a ravine not two hundred
! yards from the main Morton street
entrance to the cemetery grounds.
But one bit of shrubbery marked the
| lower level of the ravine and into this
| the man sprang to make his final
, stand. In moment the sides of the
ravine were lined many deep with the
| bluecoats, revolvers were brought to
| bear upon the bush in the gulley and
shot after shot was poured into it.
When the rain of shot was over Off
| GERS approached the bush and, parting
i the leaves, found the desperado's
body pierced by hundred bullets
Almost at the same time another
! commotiop was created on the oppo-
site side of the main gate, within the
! confines of the main cemetery, and a
man who had refused to throw up his
, hands had been seized and disarmed.