Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-13
ANGRY CROWD
soon SCATTERS
When Boston Policeman Draws
Revolver and "Lets Go"
THREE MEN RECEIVE WOUNDS

OHS WIN was oSiH9 TtdCSo OHQeT
Arrest Receives Bullet In ~Intestines
and Cannot Recover-Brother Of
ficers Say Shooter Wa Being
Roughly Handled, but Eyewitnesses
Are of Different Opinion
Boston, July 11.-One man is dy-
Ing, his brother is suffering from a
dangerous wound in the groin. and
another companion is at the Charles
town police station with a bullet wound
through the foot as the result of the
use of a revolver by Patrolman Den
mis- O'Leary in Charlestown.
William Deegan, aged %, married
and living in Somerville, is the man
who is dying from a bullet wound in
the intestines. His stepbrother,
Robert j. Werner, of Somerville, and
married, has a bad wound in the
groin, and John Anderson of Somer-
vile has a bullet hole clear through
his foot.
Albert Johnson of this city is IN
der arrest, charged with aiding Dee
gan in resisting arrest.
The excitement caused by the
shooting drew a crowd of several
hundred to the vicinity of Chelsea and
Medford streets.
Patrolman O'Leary had arrested
Deegan and was taking him to a box
when, without a moments warning,
he drew his revolver and began blaz-
ing away at the crowd. He fired four
shots in all. Three of them found a
human target. The fourth spent it
self against the wall of the navy yard.
Patrolman O'Leary narrowly es-
capped a had beating from a crowd of
Infatuated men and boys who gath
cred around the officer after the
shooting, threatening him with all
kinds of harm.
According to the police O'Leary was
being roughly handled by the crowd
and pulled his revolver to defend his
life.
The three men shot were in COM
pany with friends, standing on the
Chelsea bridge last evening. They
had just returned from a days outing
at Peddock's island, and had returned
in the naphtha launch The Limit"
managed by Johnson.
When it came time to separate
Johnson noticed the men that, as he
had been prepared for a company of
twenty men and had bought provisions
and refreshments for that number, he
stood to lose SO. so.
AS each man had paid the price
agreed upon, they decided they would
levy ar extra assessment and make up
the deficiency between them.
They were arguing the matter out
and had paused on the Chelsea bridge
to make final disposition of the mat
ter when along came OLeary.
Come, get to - out of here"
was reported to be OLeary's first
greeting.
Deegan, who is a little fellow. re-
piled: "Wait a minute; we're settling
up things"
O'Leary again ordered the men to
move, and when they did not start
quickly enough to suit him made an
offensive remark to them and Deegan
replied in kind.
Then OLeary jumped for Deegan,
and pulling his club, struck Deegan
twice with it over the head. The
club split open Deegan's head and set
the blood to flowing freely. With his
prisoner O'Leary started across the
bridge in the direction of the call box. :.
Deegan's half brother, Werner, when
he saw OLeary strike Deegan with
the club cried out: THAT amt right,
old man." and this attracted the pa
trolman's notice to him.
Werner was joined by another COM
panion, and the two men ran to the
side of the officer, and, as he was
pushing the arrested Deegan to the
call box, began arguing with the Off
Ger to effect Deegan's release.
One word led to another, and while
the discussion was going on someone
snatched away the officers short club.
Then, according to eyewitnesses,
OLeary pulled his revolver and told
Werner and his friends If they didn't
stop trying to get Deegan away from
him he would shoot meon
Meanwhile a crowd of young men
hostile to O'Leary closed in and a mix
up began. According to the police,
OLeary was struck several times and
thrown to the ground. BY the stories
of eyewitnesses, OLeary lost his head
and began to shoot.
Deegan fell to the ground. bleeding
profusely from a shot wound in the
abdomen. Werner got shot in the right
groin and Anderson was shot in the
foot.
When the crowd saw O'Leary mean
business and saw the men falling all
around them, they broke away from
the officer, who pulled Deegan from