The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-07-24
DESPERADOES
SHOOT UP OWN
Wild West Performance in
a Suburb Of Boston.
LONG LIST OF VICTIMS

Two of Them Are Finally Sur
rounded in Cemetery and One Is
Killed and Another Captured.
Boston, July 24.--After three deadly
battles between three desperadoes,
the police and small army Of citi-
zens, the first encounter being in a
barroom, the second in the peaceful
streets of Jamaica Plains and the
third in the quietude of a cemetery,
one of the bandits was riddled with
bullets and killed; a 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 mile and
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 s.
When the shooting was over it was
found that Frank j. Drake had been
killed, Patrick Doran had received a
bullet in the abdomen and Thomas
Winterston 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 we're 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 Cum
bingham field, Lee street and into
New Keyes street, down which they
ran directly into Washington street..
On Washington street, where electric
cars are passing almost necessarily
and hundreds of people were walking,
the two men fired shot after shot.
They commanded everybody to hold
up their hands and even ordered the
motorman of an approaching car to
stop. The motorman dropped behind
the dashboard and the conductor,
Thomas Moore, who stepped off the
car to see what was the trouble, re-
ceived bullet in the: leg. Michael
Finn picked up a stone to hurl at the
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head over the right ear and another
passed over the left ear, knocking of
his hat Patrick McGinn was shot in
the wrist, Thomas Flemming in the
hand and John Nolan received bullet 1
in the arm, while John H. Wrightman
carries two bullet holes in his trousers
to show where the bullets grazed the
calf of his leg. s.:
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 revolvers with
rolls Of cartridges. Through Williams
street the men entered Franklin park
and thence passed into Forest Hill
cemetery. .-- $3.50.
Herbert e. Knox, the Waterman,
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.
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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 man sprang
up in front of the Off ers at the south
side of the cemetery and started off
on the run. The man was barefooted,
a broken derby covered his head,
torn and ragged coat was on his back !
and in one hand he carried 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 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
lbluecoats, 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
the leaves, found the desperado's
body pierced by hundred bullets.
Almost at the same time another
commotion 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.
Both the dead body and the captive
were taken to Jamaica Plains station
\ Some doubt arising, however, as to
the identity of the captured man, OFF,
GERS were again marched back into
the cemetery to continue the search
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