The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-06
Then Negro Is Wounded by GrOc-
eryman Whom He Assaulted.
Insane Man Fought With Doc
TORS and HnsnitaI Attendants
R. DAVIS WOUNDED.
Cocaine Crazed Patient ReVives
on Operating Table.
Is Finally Shot to Death by
Policeman Krause.

Kansas City. Kan. July 6.-Dr. Bret
Davis, q house surgeon at Bethany
hospital in Kansas City, is probably
fatally wounded, and Jasper jackson,
a negro coal miner, from Leavenworth,
is dead. as the result of a desperate en-
counter at $3.50 o'clock last night in a
dark corridor of the hospital, between
the doctor and Al Krause. a policeman,
on one side and the Infatuated negro on
the other.
With three bullet wounds in his body,
the negro dropped dead after he had
knocked down one surgeon, made a
vicious attack on another and wrested a
club and revolver from the policeman,
after a struggle about the corridor OF
the hospital.
Thirty minutes before, Jackson had
attacked Charles West. a white man,
in the West Bottoms and chased him
into John Kraft's grocery store at
Ewing and Water streets. The negro
was enraged at West. and began
throwing glasses and canned goods at
him. He then attacked the proprietor,
J ohn Kraft, and was shot in the alb
domen by the latter.
The patrol wagon was called and
the injured man taken to Bethany
hospital, where he was examined by
DR.. P. D. Hughes, chief of staff. The
regrO suddenly revived and struck DR..
hughes III CnS lace.
Crazed Negro Disarms a PatrOlman.
A few minutes later. while DR.. Bret
Davis was leaning over the operating
table preparing to dress the wound,
Jackson jumped from the table and
viciously attacked the physician. Po-
hceman Al Krause, who had been
standing in the corridor, came to the
assistance to the doctor but the two
men were no match for the negro. He
became so frenzied that KrauSe struck
L him fAdlV the head with
| his CLUB in an effort to subdue him.
| This seemed to have no effect upon
| the black who rushed at the officer
| and took his club from him. The men
| then struggled into the corridor and
Krause drew his revolver and fired
| three shots at the negro, who kept
closing in until he finally succeeded in
wrestling the revolver from the police
mans hand and then threw it at him.
| Turning half way round the negro
sank to the floor dead.
Who Fired Shot That Wounded Davis?
Officials were unable last night to
find the cause of the trouble between
West and the negro. From a hypo-
dermic syringe found on the body it
crazed from the use of cocaine and
assaulted the first man he saw. Jack
son had been in the city one week and
was rooming at 48 Ewing street.
A post mortem examination held
| last night at Gibson & Porter's
| morgue by DR.. ]. A. Davis, Wyandotte
county coroner, disclosed three bullet
wounds. any one of which would have
caused death.
1.-The negro was close to me when
fired" said Krause last night. ST do
not understand how I could have hit
! DR.. Davis, unless one of the bullets
passed through the negro's body. I'm
mediately following the shooting I was
inclined to believe that Jackson had
fired after getting possession of the
revolver, but this could not have been
true, for am positive that I fired
three times, and there are still three
cartridges in the gum This version
of the shooting was borne out by Miss
Elizabeth Eason, superintendent of
the hospital, who stepped out of the
corridor just as the shots were fired.
''It was dark in the corridor" said
Miss Eason. but saw the policeman
reach for his revolver. Only three
shots were fred
At late hour last night, DR. Chas
H. Stemen, the attending physician,
said that DR.. Daviss condition was
very serious, the bullet having entered
the groin. DR.. Davis is unmarried and
! lives at independence, Kan.