The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
ALLENVILLE COP IS
TO Be PROSECUTED
Dudley to Be Arrested on Return
From MISUNDERSTANDING
UnprOVOked.

made by Prosecuting Attorney J. Hen
ny Caruthers.
Dudley has not been placed under
arrest yet, because of his absence on
trip to Kentucky to return prisoner
there. Before he departed he told
friends that he expected something
would grow out of the shooting.
Gillespie is shot in the right leg, a
few inches below the thigh. The bull
let entered in front and after running
around the bone, came out in back.
He is still in a serious condition in
Allenville. Yesterday he was able to
tell his story of the shooting to Ca
ruthers.
An investigation of the circumstan-
ces show that Gillespie was shot after
a bond for his release had been signed
for Dudley.
Gillespie has a wife and two chill
dren living in the Cape, it is reported,
and he is a son of the city marshal at
Puxico He has been in Allenville for
several days, working as a painter
Saturday Marshal Dudley went to
the place where Gillespie rooms and
boards, to arrest another man on a
charge of disturbing the peace. Dud-
ley was met at the front door by Gil
lespie who blocked the doorway and
engaged Dudley in a conversation
about what the latter had come there
for.
According to the story told, Gillespie
protested that the man Dudley was
looking for had done nothing wrong.
In the meantime the man escaped by
way of the back door and caught a
train out of town.
In the course of the conversation
Dudley finally announced to Gillespie
that he was under arrest himself for
resisting an officer.
Gillespie protested and finally was
taken before Mayor Robert Amos, who
asked Dudley to take him to Albert
Courtway to singn the bond. Court
ways signature on the bond would be
sufficient Gillespie says he was told.
The two men then found Courtway,
placed his bond at S25 Gillespie then
who Immediately signed the document.
Then Dudley declared that Gillespie
would have to get the signature of a
man named Albert Lape on the bond
before it would be good. Lape is en-
plOyed at the WitherS Distillery,
across the creek, outside of Allenville.
Gillespie and Dudley together start
ed cut toward the distillery to obtain
Lape's signature on the bond. After
they had crossed the creek and were
approaching the place, they met Lape
on the road. When Gillespie told Lape
his mission, Lape asked the officer
and the prisoner to wait in the office
for him, because he had urgent bust
ness in town and would return imme-
diately to sign the bond.
As Lape and Gillespie tell the story,
instead of going to the office, Dudley
then started to take Gillespie back to
town. Gillespie had his right hand in
his hip pocket.
Dudley covered him with his re-
volver and declared:
'Lape, deputize you to search that
man. Gillespie throw up your hands"
"You don't have to deputize Lape,"
Gillespie replied as he raised his
hands.
Dudley then gave Gillespie's pockets
the once over in search of a weapon.
After that he started taking him back
to town with him.
Gillespie then demanded:
"What are you dragging me around
here for? I've presented bond that
you said once would be good? Why
don't you let me go?"
"1Ou come along with me or I'll
shoot" Gillespie and Lape say Dudley
declared as he once more covered Gil
lespie. At the same time he pointed
the revolver at Gillespie and fired
once.
The bullet took effect in Gillespie's
leg. Gillespie fell to the ground
Dudley reached down and attempted
to get Gillespie to his feet, Lape dec
clared, at the same time urging him
to come along.
Lape interfered by saying: "Don't
try to drag him, Dudley. Don't you
see you've shot him."
Dudley declared he didn't believe he
hit Gillespie and it was only after the
other two men showed him the wound
that he changed his manner. He then
had Gillespie taken to town in bug
gy.
II &c oyDncfad that GilleSDie will re-