Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-03
shippy Wa. PREPARED.

Chicago, March s.-Chief of Police
George NJ. Shippy in an interview gave
the, details of his encount er with his
assailant. He said:
Il had a premonition of this, and
the attack on me came as no surprise.
Therefore l have been on guard. My
premonition that 1 was the object of an
> assassination plot was verified this
morning The first l knew was the
ring at the door bell about 9 o'clock
1t might have been a few minutes
earlier or it might have been a min
ute or two later. I answered in per-
son and saw standing there a man
who was evidently a Sicilian or an Ar
menian. He was about 26 years old
He said:
"Is Chief Shippy in? I have an
important letter for him.
with that he took out of his pocket
an envelope addressed to George NJ.
Shippy, superintendent Of police, City
hall, Chicago. or residence, 81 Lincoln
place 1 looked at the man and in
stead of taking the letter 1 grasped
him arm. With that he struggled. My
wife, who had been attracted by the
noise Of the struggle, started down.
stairs. I held the man and called to
her, See If that man has a gun in his
pocket
NY wife ran down, and while I held
him she placed her hand in his right
overcoat pocket and got hold of gun.
She said: Yes, George. he has
'I said, For Gods sake, hold it. l
then grappled with him and threw him
over the telephone stand in the en-
trance hall. He released his hand from
my grasp and while my wife still held
the gun he pulled knife from inside
of his overcoat, knife such as never
saw before.
IT had a blade twelve to fourteen in
ches long. He cut across my right
arm and got me- Then l fired at him.
Then Foley fired. About this time my
boy, Harry, started downstairs after
his mother. He cried, Papa, l will
help you.
..Then / heard shot entirely differ
ent from my gun and Foley's gun. l
saw my wife was not able to keep up
the unequal struggle. The assassin
wrenched the gun from her. Then, as
my boy grappled with him, he shot
Harry just above the heart. saw
Harry fall to the stairs and as he did
so he cried, Papa, I'm shot; l can't help
you any more
"Then shot to kill. had only shot
to disable before, but when my boy
cried that he had been shot l shot to
kill. put one bullet thru that fell
lows head and another thru his heart.
Afterward l found out that the fellow
had fired shot earlier than the one
that had hit my boy. The second shot
fired by him went thru Foley's right
hand, causing him to drop his revol-
yer.
This was the third visit made to my
house by this fellow. Sunday morning
he called after l had left for the city
hall. Harry let this fellow in then. The
man said he wanted to see the chief,
and Harry answered, My father has
gone to work This fellow came again
this morning at Z o'clock. The maid
Therese Tauer, informed him that he
could not see me until o'clock. The
man declared that he had an important
letter to deliver, but she would not let
him in, telling him he would have to
call later. He returned at the hour
she had suggested and the shooting
followed"
Shown to Be Nihlist.
The dead anarchist was identified last
night as Harry Averbuch. Russian
3ew, who had lived in America only