The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-23
ELEVEN ARE
 ... SHOT DOWN One Dead and Two Fatally Wounded. DEsPERADoEs RUN AMUcK Policemen and Citizens Are in Hot
 Pursuit. A mother With. Babe In Her Arms, shot Down on Her Porch as
 Brutes Rushed Through streets Firing.
DEsPERADoEs RUN AMUcK

Boston, July 22-Eieven persons were shot tonight one of them dying later and two being fatally wounded by two desperadoes. who, on being pursued by policemen and crowd af citizens, fled for two miles through thicikly. settled district of Jamaica Plains firing madiy right and left, and disappeared In the woods near Franklin Park.
 The men are believed to have been two of the gang of three who robbed a saloon in Jamaica Plains last night after shooting and killed one man and wounding two others. The dead man is Herbert K. Knox. night watchman at the Forest Hill Cemetery.
 Mrs. Della Fallon is one of the most seriously injured of tonights victims. She was standing In front of her home with her baby in her arms when fhe two men, pursued by crowd came down the street As they passed her. one fired and the bullet entered her head below her ear. She was removed to a hospital fin a critical condition. Edward 4. McMahon. a Dorchester patrolman. received a bullet in the abdomen and both he and Mrs FaIlon are expected to die.
 The others injured are: John Nolan, shot in arm; Thomas Fisming. shot in hand; Thomas Moore. rtreet car con- ductor. shot in leg: Officer 1ngs sIs. bullet in leg; Officer Cox. bullet in ankle; Patrick McGinn. shot in side: Michael Flynn. head grazed by bullet !: Patrolman Thompson. shot in leg.
 Hid in Cemetery.
 It is believed that the desperadoes lay concealed in Calvary Cemetery to- day while the police were hunting for them on account of last nights hold up and robbery. Being driven from thelr hiding place by hunger and fearing that they would be surrounded by the police who were searching the neigh borhood. the two men appeared on Charles Street in Jamaica Plains at about dusk and proceeded to shoot m, the town. They looked like Italians and we're roughly dressed. Some cftI- zens who had been assisting in the hunt Tor the1 robbers. saw the men ana tried Q intercept them wheFeupon one or them with revolver lf. hand fled around Charles and sExeyee streets. fIr- ing at every person ih their path. Mrs. Fallen was the first mark of tha nlufoerous weapons Officer rnhsat 2 was shot next and then Messrs. Moore Flynn, MeGirn. Nolan and Flenilrisr a Ri Ofhicer Cox were wounded in succession during the flight of inc men 70 Franklin Park. John H. Wrightman n through his trousers Leg
 Throughout the residentiaI diafrict the front porches Of the houses were thick with people enjoying the avanir 7 air while the. streets of the buslness section were, filled with the us,iaI throngs. The appearance of. the two desperate men. shooting to each side sN they ran. and shouting as if crazy. caused general stampede for cover.
 Michael Flynn stepped to nick m A stone as he saw the men coming .to- ward him and instantly one of then, hred at him, the bullet grazing his ear. Another went through his hat. As ithe fugttives running along Reyes Street reached Washington Street. q trolley car came along.
 Held Up Trolley
 Hold up. -" shouted one of thA msn. waving his. revolver above his head. The motorman set the brakes and the conductor, Thomas Moore. Jumped off. Instantly he became a tar. get and a bullet entered his leg.
 Across Washington Street and along New Reyes Street the robbers fled, with hundreds of men pursuing. and soon disappeared, in Franklin Park. shooting down Oficer Cox. who tried to intercept them near the park gate.
 As soon as possible a cordon of po- lice. heavily armed, with rifles and re- volvers. was thrown about the park while thousands of citizens gathered in the vicinity.
 According to small boy who saw the two men reIoadfng their weapons in a sand hill near the park early in the evening. each man carried three revolvers.
 PatroIman McMahon and Patrolman Thompson sighted the supposed ItaI- ians in the neighborhood of the park late in the evening and went down be- fore their well directed fire.
 Al II 0'rl0rlr fhA chaaN had Taeana beyond the park southward 4 report was received that the quarry had been seen near the corner of Morton and Canterbury Streets, and a squad of police was hurried there in automo- biles.