Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-12
FRANK DUNBAR,
1878 MURDERED
BY COMPANIONS
Called From His Home BY
Crowd to Be Chastised When
Volley of Shots Is Di-
rected at Him.
BULLET PIERCES HEART
Sunday Evening Tragedy Occurs at
First Street and Nineteenth Ave
nue., MoIine-Seven Boys
Placed Under Arrest.

Lured from his home by boys who
pretended they wanted him to accom-
pany them down town and then MUIR
dered apparently in cold blood, was the
fate that befell Frank Dunbar, 125
Nineteenth avenue, Moline, last night.
The seven boys who made up the
gang, are all under arrest and they
stand an excellent chance of being
called to thorough accounting for the
crime. The Rock Island police arrest
ed six of the assailants and the other
one was caught by the Moline authori-
ties. An inquest was held at the Mo-
line police station this afternoon.
The boys who are under arrest
charged with the murder are Henry,
William and James Shaffer, Prosper
Derecks, John DePover and Frank
Martens, arrested by the Rock Island
police, and Andrew DuBurg, whom the
Moline police caught.
OutgrOvvth of Quarrel.
The boys, only one of whom Is of
age, were severely questioned by the
police this morning in an attempt to
learn just how the shooting occurred
!
it was found out that DePover and the
dead boy had quarreled Saturday
night According to the boys story,
DePover was walking past the Dunbar
home with two young girls when
Frank emerged and started fight
with DePover, forcing the latter to
take to his heels. DePover immediate
Iy hunted up some of his friends and
they planned to get even. Last night !
about o'clock they went to the Dun
bar home and one of them yelled, "Oh !
Dutch, are you with u.s." Some more |
by-talk followed and finally Frank was
induced to come out of the house under |
the pretense that several of his friends !
wanted him to accompany them down |
town,
Shot While Running.
He became suspicious as he neared !
the fence where the boys were and
started back towards the house, but he
was grabbed and his assailantts tried !
to pull him over the fence, where he !
was to be beaten by the entire crowd, |
one of whom had a club. Frank broke /
away from them, however, and took to |
his heels whereupon five shots were |
fired at him and at his father and /
younger brother, who had by this time !
come running to his assistance. The
first shot fired pierced Franks heart
and he fell dead. The elder Dunbar
had secured a 22-calibre rifle and he
took one shot at the assailants and hit
DuBurg in the left arm. The combat
ants then dispersed and the police
were notified that murder had been
committed They went to the scene at
once, but could not find any of the
crowd
Surprised In Morning.
About 4 o'clock this morning half
dozen officers from the local station
visited the homes of the suspected
boys in turn and found them asleep
and arrested them. The DuBurg boy
had gone to Moline to have his wound
ed arm taken care of and he was ar
rested there All of the assailants are
residents of this city. One of them,
Prosper Derecks, is aged 25 years, but
none of the remainder have passed
their teens. One of them, James Shat
fer, is but IA. They have little to say
about the affair and have not told the
police who it was fired the fatal shot.
The dead boy was aged 10. He was
well known and generally liked in his
neighborhood.
The police raid rounded up eight
young suspects, but two of them were
dismissed when it was found that
they could prove they were not in the
crowd