The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-06
.SPUTTER OF LEAD
Sunday Quiet at Silver Lake Is
Rudsly Broken.
VIM. Juhrt Just Had to Have
Some Fun.
ONE MAN SHOT DOWN
Charles George Hit in Hip and
Severely Injured.
ONE MAN SHOT DOWN
Marshal Jeffries Gets Shooter
After Revolver Is Emptied.

William Juhrt, better known as
Dutch Billy" famous as a gun"
man, transformed the ordinarily sleep
ing town of Silver Lake into a verita-
BILE Dodge City of the early day Santa
F'e trail, Sunday when he walked
through the main street of the village
pumping bullets into the buildings
from a heavy revolver. The mans
best friend, Charles George, was the
only one to suffer injury from the
wild west show. He lies in Keiths
hospital shot through the thigh and in
a dangerous condition.
As Dutch Billy proceeded through
the town and east on the Union Pacific
tracks he was followed by the town
marshal Ed Jeffries, who began shoot
ing at him Billy turned to return the
fire and both men emptied their guns
in an endeavor to bring the other
down Neither was struck and as
Juhrt fired his last bullet he dropped
his arm to his side in surrender. When
caught he was found to have a full
belt of cartridges strapped around him
but he had had no time to reload
THE affair started said Jurht to
the reporter today, 'fafter a little row
in the butcher shop when George told
me he was going to kill me. I knew
he was knife fighter and had cut up
several men and 1 was afraid of him
ran home and got my gun and came
back and he was coming across the
street from the hotel.
He came right for me and he had
his hand in his pocket on his knife
Stop, Charlie said, now stop but
he came right ahead and 1 had to stop
him
Dutch Billy certainly stopped him
for he fell to the dust at the first shot
The bone of his leg was shattered near
the hip. But not yet satiated. the
spirit of the range fired the Dutchman
into further welding of the smoke
=. 4. fT7ns ST. OF
plugging bullets right and left One
went through the door of the butcher
shop and lodged in a hanging ham,
That no one vas seriously injured
tire population was out to see a ball
game between Silver Lake and Della
The marshal was also there As soon
as he heard of the shooting he hur
riedly teIephoned to Topeka to Sheriff
Norton to send men out toward Silver
Lake to head off the man and then fol-
lowed.
Under Sheriff BayIess and Deputy
Judkins started Immediately in a
buggy but had not gotten farther than
the reform school when they were
rakish roadster. The horse was left
! in a farm ward and the officers got
into the Keith machine Bayless tells
of the trip:
| qualified to drive his car with
Strang and Chevelot- They covered
| the distance of IL miles in Is min
utes. Chickens in the road never had
a chance to squak- A flock of spar
rows flew out of a hedge to cross the
road as is their wont but the flying
machine travelling at a speed impos-
/ sible to be calculated by the little
/ birds struck the flock like a cyclone
| and killed as many as fifty of them
| leaving them kicking in the sand
! But Juhrt had just been captured
when they arrived. His victim was
examined and his wound cared for
/ when Mrs. Keith in another auto
mobile drove up. The officers were
1 taken home in this while the doctor
1 took the wounded man.
! Jutrt and George were working
with the same threshing gang. The
/ entire gang had ordered some whisky
for a Sunday spree in the village and
that had a strong influence on the
fight though neither was drunk.
Both + men b are d0 %en b hn4Tn R 98T
once took a shot gun and stepping
| into the street of the same little town
fired both barrels down the lane. For
! two hundred feet the pellets are
side. No one was hurt Another
time he took the big As caltber shoot
| ing iron of the early day make and
another gun Of lesser weight and
walked down the avenue shooting
first to one side and then to the
| other in special delight Asked this
morning If he had not come to the
| little town from Texas or Arizona, he
| replied:
mo, 1 used to live in Iowa"
Asked why he did so much shooting
about the small town, he said: "Oh
a fellow has to have some fun But
did not know that fellow yesterday
was a marshal when I began shooting
at him. I would have killed him
anyhow If I had wanted to- I had
| lots of ammunition"
The reason he did not know that
Jefries was a marshal brought out a
| few facts about the other fellow
| George cut another man UP pretty