The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-23
GET ONE BANDIT,
KILL ANOTHER IN
BOSTON FIGHT
Police Make Capture, Citizens
Aiding, After Three Deadly
Street Battles.
2 DEAD II INJURED
BY FLYING BULLETS
Third Desperate, Badly Wound
ed, Still Eludes Pursuit
in Franklin Park.
Especial to the Evening Star.]

Especial to the Evening Starl
BOSTON, July 23.-After three deadly
battles between the police and a small
army of citizens on one hand and three
desperadoes, who left two dead and
eleven wounded in their wake. one of
the bandits was riddled with bullets
and killed in a cemetery; the second is
q prisoner at police headquarters and
400 police, aided by armed citizens, are
searching for the third. The latter is
believed to be fatally wounded.
The first of the encounters occurred
Tuesday in a barroom. The second,
which resulted in the greatest number
of injuries. occurred in peaceful ia
maica Plains last night, and the third
early today In beautiful Forest Hill
Cemetery.
The dead are:
Herbert E. Knox, AZ, night watchman
at the Forest Hill Cemetery.
The bandit, identity unknown. killed
In the cemetery.
Tha injured:
Edward Mcmahon policeman, shot in
abdomen.
John Nolan, shot in arm.
4 Thomas Fleming, shot in hand.
Thomas Moore. street car conductor,
Nhot In leg.
Oh1cer Ingalls,, bullet in leg.
Of1cer Cox, shot In ankle.
= Mrs. Della Fallon, shot in head. con-
Hition critical.
Patrick McGinn, shot in the side.
Michael Flynn, head grazed by bullet.
Patrolman Thompson, of Station IL,
-sl1ot in leg.
Driven from their hiding place by
hunger and fearing that they would De
surrounded. the two men appeared on
Charles street in Jamaica Plains at
about dusk and proceeded to shoot up
the town. They looked like Italians ana
i. were roughly dressed. Mrs. Fallon was
the first mark of the murderous weap-
ons. officer ingalls, was shot next and
then others received bullets in quick
succession during the flight of the men
to Franklin Park. John II. Wrightman,
of 54 Keyes street, was also shot at. but
the bullet passed harmlessly through his
trousers leg.
Across Washington street and through
Keyes street the robbers fed, with hun
dreds of men pursuing, and soon dlsap-
peared in Franklin Park, shooting down
Policeman Cox, who tried to intercept
them.
AS soon as possible Gordon of police,
heavily armed with rifles and revolvers,
was thrown about the park, while
thousands of citizens gathered in the
vicinity.
The desperate captured is believed to
be Giuseppe Device He is charged with
murder, having ben identified By four
men as one of the three who "shot up"
the saloon on Tuesday night.
starts Wild Race.
About daybreak the officers who had
been guarding the cemetery to prevent
the outlaws escape We're given the
order to advance toward the centre 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.
For more than a mile across the
cemetery the man raced madly over
graves, around shrubbery, through gull
leys and over mounds, an ever-increas-
ing mob Of policemen following in his
wake All at once he disappeared in
a ravine not 200 yards from the main
Morton street entrance to the ceme-
tery grounds. In a moment the sides
of the ravine { 'ere lined many deep
with the blue coats, reVolVers were
brought to bear upon the bush In the
eulley and shot after shot was poured
into it.
When the rain of shot was over OFF, |
GERS approached the bush and, parting
the leaves. found the desDerado's body |
pierced by hundred bullets.
Almost at the same time another COM |
motion was created on the opposite side |
of the main gate within the confines of
the main cemetery, and man who had
refused to throw up his hands had been |
seized and disarmed. Both the dead
body and the captive were taken to the
Jamaica Plain station.
At 8 a. m. the police were tracing
large splashes of blood in the cemetery
in the hope of locating the third bandit