The Detroit times., 1912-04-24
FOUR SHOOTING AFFRAYS
KEEP POLICE HUMPING
TWO MEN ARE WOUNDED
Most Serious Affair Takes Place
on Street Car, Where Patrol
man Battles With Five
ROW IN MORGAN HOUSE
Man Fires Point Blank at Clerk
Gooddell, But Latter Ducks
and Escapes
ROW IN MORGAN HOUSE

Four shooting affrays, in which
two men were slightly wounded, and
third narrowly escaped death, kept
the police on the Jump, Tuesday night
and early Wednesday morning.
William Rogers. 23 years old. and
claiming TO live in st. Louis, Is held
In the Central station on a charge OF
assault with intent to kill, for firing
point blank at the head of George
Gooddell. night clerk In the Morgan
house. Cass and Bagley-aves., at 3 a.
m. Gooddell ducked behind his desk
as the revolver was levelled, and the
bullet just missed his head.
REM Langreet, saloonkeeper al
No. 1349 Jefferson-ave.. was shot
through the leg by Patrolman Fair
bairn, OF Elmwood station, during a
desperate fight on Jefferson pay
enter" car at Chene-st., at A a. m. Five
arrests, including that of the injured
man, resulted.
John Rowstowski, l9 years old, OF
No. $50 Grandy-ave., is under arrest
in the Chene-st. station on the charge
OF shooting Stanislaus WKrighowski
in the head, during quarrel in the
latter's barber shop. No. 36S Grandy-
ave-, Tuesday night. only a scalp
wound was inflicted.
The flying squadron was called to
the residence of Andrew Doptis, No.
$50 Congress-st. east, Tuesday night,
when strikers from the Sherwood
Brass Co. attacked Doptis' home. hurL
ing bricks through the windows. Dop-
tis, strike breaker, emptied a re-
yolver at his assailants, but nobody
wah hit, and no arrests were made,
as the disturbers disappeared before
the squadron arrived.
The Morgan house shooting fol-
lowed all attempt to oust Rogers from
a chair in the lobby, in which he was
move, but he refused, and then Clerk
Goddell went TO the porter's assist
ance, the shooting resulting.
Officers Mcneil and Hopp, in auto
patrol No. /, reached the scene in
time to catch Rogers as he was run
ming away from the hotel.
q In the street car battle, hangreet.
mis- wife, daughter, Jeanette, and two
friends, William Westdorf and Adolph
De Clark, mingled In a battle with
Patrolman Fairbairn and the car
crew, over the. question of fares.
On boarding the car at the east end
of the city, Langreet paid the fares
for the whole party, he says. but the
conductor claimed that he was five
cents short, and an argument result
ed. When officer Fairbairn boarded
the car at Chene-st., on his way
home, the conductor resumed the ar
gument, and fight resulted. Fair
bairn mixed in the battle, and had his
badge and some buttons torn of
while he was struggling with Lam
greet, while Mrs. Langreet and Miss
J Jeanette attacked him from the rear.
The other two men were battling with
the car crew.
The officer pulled his revolver and
shot Lanreet through the leg, inflict-
ing a flesh wound. Langreet jumped
from the car and fell in a heap on the
pavement Then Fairbairn placed
the whole crowd under arrest, and
the Elmwood patrol. which
first took Langreet TO st. Mary's hos
pital, where his wound was dressed
He and his wife and daughter and
two friends were then taken TO Hunt
st. station on a charge of disturbing
the peace.
The flying squadron had been
rushed to the scene on reports OF the
shooting, and surrounded the car
when they arrived, but learned that
Fairnbairn had thetrouble under con.
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