The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-03-30
FIVE VICTIMS ARE
SHOT and BEATEN
AT APACHE DANCE
Typical Gang Fight In New York
Ends In One Fatally and the
Injury Of Others.

New York. Special: Shortly before
daylight man stopped dancing at the
ball of the Joseph ONeill association
In Lyric hall, took a revolver from his
coat pocket, handed it to a girl stand
Ing near him. and swung off again
with his partner.
The girl laid the revolved on a win
dow sill behind the piano in the cor
ner set apart for the orchestra. A few
moments later a man picked 1t up and
opened fire--whether on the crowd OF
dancers or on some one in particular
Is not known. Instantly the dancers
scurried for cover and a dozen other
revolvers began to bark.
At night the police of the West
Thirtieth street station completed a
list Of casualties. Joseph Ryan was dy-
ing in the New York hospital, with a
bullet wound in the abdomen; Sidney
Well had bullet wound in his leg;
John Matthews. special policeman,
had been beaten into Inconsistencies
with chair: Frank MCGOWAN and Jo-
seph Devine were in the police station
with cuts and bruises on them that
had required good deal of dressing
by an ambulance surgeon.
Tried to Deceive Poiice.
1t took the police all day to find out
exactly what had happened. because
the Apache code will not allow an in
tured man to tell WHY or how he was
hurt That the shooting had at least
been started by gang-men from the
west side the police are convinced, but
whether II was members of the Tanner
Smith, the Gopher or some other gang
that has reigned for years In that
neighborhood, they do not know.
Ryan. MCGOWAN and Devine had
been attended at the dance hall by a
surgeon from the New York hospital
and had been taken to the police sta
ton before 1t was known to the po-
lice that any of them had been more
than "beassn up" as they themselves
described 1t. Then the hospital author
tiles phoned that one of them had been
shot and that he really ought to be in
bed. He had fatty declined to be taken
to the hospital. 1t was added.
The police made the men strip, and
Ryan's condition was made plan.
What do you know about that"
ne said when he saw the wound.
Didn't know thing about it,"
The police didn't believe him. but
they hurried him off to the hospital
a chance of recovery.
At o'clock at night Mrs. Mary We'll
came to the station house and told
about the wounding of her son.
Story Of Ono Victim.
II think you ought to do something
about it." she said. and the police
Quizzed Sidney We'll. He told them of
the man who had taken the revolver
from his pocket.
1T seemed to bother him, humping
against bis Leg We'll said. land he
asked a girl that was sitting out" to
hold 1t for him. She laid it on the win
dow sillIKA couple of minutes later
saw another man grab 1t up and begin
shooting.;I couldn't see whether 1t was
at some one person. and didn't wait to
find out. for most every man In the hall
got out his gun after that first shot
was making my getaway when was
winged"
Matthews had been on duty outside
the hail. and was on his way inside
when he was knocked down. Neither
Ryan nor the prisoners would tell what
they knew, and the police haze not
yet found any others who were a, the
ball.