The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-28
CALENDAR OF CRIME
In GREAT CITY'S EEID

IN GREAT CITY'S FEUD
April 4.-Fred Mohrle shot and 4
killed Constable Sam Young at 4
st. Louis.
June 3.-Wm. Wright. Mohre's
friend, in terror of gang, serious
~ shot Alfred Nelson. a passerby.
June Michael Kane, Young's
friend. killed Mohrle in the Four =
= Courts.
July Wright shot Chas. To-
ger in home of Mohrle's widow.
July 1O.-Mrs. Mohre shot her
" self. ."
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ST. LOUIS. July 24.-Nith two men
slain in a political feud and two more
shot, Mrs. Marie Mohrle, widow of the
first victim. kissed her five-year old
son as he slept and sent a revolver
bullet into her breast.
Now, as she lies between life and
death in a hospital, this city is be-
ginning to take account of one of
the most remarkable clashes in the
history of ward politics.
During the last campaign Consta BILE
in the fifteenth ward, and Fred Mohrle
was his neighbor and his political foe.
The Sunday before election Young
and Mohrle met by chance. Both
drew revolvers. A dozen shots rang
out and Young fell dead.
Mohrle and VIM Wright, a friend
were arrested for the killing.
When they were arranged the next
day police had to force a way for
the prisoners through a crowd.
AS Mohrle stood covering at the
dock small dark-haired man push
ed his way beside him.
Never fear the law" he whispered
and Mohrle smiled. At last he had
found a friend.
WHY" he whispered back.
\ Because the stranger Kissed,
"well get you before the law has a
chance at you" This was on April
Gangs Fiat of Revenge.
June the trial came. The same
men arraigned two months before
We're there. The election had been
decided and the gangs fit of revenge
was sealed.
Mohrle and Wright could hear the
crowd murmur above the .clang of
their prison doors as they were led
out. Mohrle came first. AS the
turnkey turned to lock the door, Mi
chael Kane. Young's friend, faced
Mohrle. Without word, Kane
raised a revolver and shot Mohrle
dead. The report echoed through
the dingy old Four Courts building
where Folk had sent boodlers to the
penitentiary.
Mohrle fell into the arms of a po-
liceman who was there to protect him.
Wright, trembling and pale, was
rushed back into his cell.
When the shot echoed on tn =
judges ears upstairs he knew what
it meant. Before the crowds Won
der had been satisfied the baliff raped
loudly.
Court is adjourned" the judge
cried.
Then Mrs. Mohrle went out with
her son and saw an ambulance TAX
might Wright. the only one alive who
was involved in the original feud,
tremble. Only few days before the
death of Mohrle. Wright, out on
bonds. heard some one call him.
Thinking the gang had got" him
he opened fire on two men and shot
Alfred Nelson. a bystander.
One Goes Insane.
Last week. when he finally was ac-
quilted, Wright accidentally shot
Chas. ToZer in the home of the widow
of Mohrle. He had gone insane.
The life of one of the gang had
been taken, and a life had paid the
forfeit. The gangs score was wiped
out.
But day after day a little woman in
black was trying to comfort her SON
who was crying for daddy" Hos
tile neighbors pointed to her veil OF
crepe and said
''She wouldn't be wearing that only