The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-23
Chased for Hours by Citissns
and Officers.
MADE A HARD FIGHT.
Shot at Everybody in Sight a.
They Ran.
Casualties Are Two Dead and
Eleven Wounded. re-

Boston, July zS.-After three deadly
battles between three desperadoes. the
police and a small army of citixens,
the first encounter being in q bar
room, the second In the peaceful
streets Of Jamaica Plains and the
third in the quiet of q cemetery. one
OF the bandits was riddled with hull
ietS ana killed. second, believed to
De Wounded. was being searched for
IN tne cemetery today. while a third
was taken In the south station. The
desperadoes left behind them over
tneir trail of mile and a half two
oead and eleven wounded. All are
peNeved to be foreigners.
Inc oesperado captured Is believed
| TO be Giuseppe Device. He is charred
WIN murder, having been identified
ny four men as one OF the three who
snot up the saloon on Tuesday
night: The desperadoes' career of ter
iu ror started on Tuesday by the shoot
ing up Of the saloon of winterston
and 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 aand shouted,
"All hands up"
When the shooting was over IL was
found that Frank ]. 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 a careful search all
night long without result Early yes
terday two Of the men made their ap-
pearance at house on Born street
and at the point of a revolver de.
About Z o'clock last night they were
discovered in Calvary cemetery.
| Fired in All Directions.
| When the desperadoes found that
they were pursued they drew their re-
volvers and with a yell begun firinE
on all sides. The first person hit was
Mrs. Della Fallon, VINO was wslking
then received a bullet, in the leg. The
men then passed through Cunning
ham field, Lee street and into New
I Keyes street, down which they ran
1 directly Into Washington street. On
washington street where electric cars
were passing almost necessarily and
hundreds OF people were walking. the
two men fred shot after shot. They
commanded everybody to hold up his
hands and even ordered the motorman
of an approaching car to stop. The
motorman dropped behind the DASH
board and the conductor, Thomas
Moore, who stepped on the car to see
what was the trouble. received a bull
let in the leg, Michael Flynn picked
up a 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 OF his hat. Pat
rick McGinn was shot In the wrist,
Thomas Fleming in the hand and
John Nolan received q bullet in the
arm, while John H. Wrightman car
ries two bullet holes in his trousers to
show whore the bullets grazed the calf
of his leg.
The men continued on through New
! Keyes street to a hill. where they
/ nd y,,av
| 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 ceme-
terry. Herbert E. Knox, the watch
man, who had been on the lookout for
| the men, came upon one OF them un-
expectedly 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 or
der to advance toward the center Of
| the cemetery.
Fight in q Cemetery. Ade
| Scarcely a quarter of an hour later
| a man sprang up in front of the Of
| ficers at the south side OF the ceme-
| terry and started or on run The man
was barefooted. a broken derby COW
cred his head, a torn and ragged coat
was on his back and in one hand he
carried a heavy revolver. while from
| the other dangled reel OF cartridges.
For more than a mile across the
cemetery the man raced madly over
graves, around shrubbery. through
eulleys and over mounds, an ever in
creasing number OF policemen follow
| ing in his wake. All at once he dis
appeared in a ravine not zoo yards
| from the main Morton street entrance
| to the cemetery. grounus. 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 with blue coats, revolvers were
| brought to bear upon the bush In the
| gulley and shot after shot was poured
| into It. When the rusn. of shot was
| over officers approached the bush and
| parting the leaves found the des-
perado's body pierced by hundred
| bullets ~ .e-az
Almost at the same time another
| commotion was created opposite 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 the Jamaica PLAIN station. "r'
| Some doubt arising. however. ~ to
| the identity Of the captured man. on
| GERS were again marched back into
| the cemetery to continue the search.
| AT s a. m, the police were tracing
| large splashes of blood In the ceme-
tery in the hope of locating the third
bandit.