The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-20
Religious Fanatic and Wife Die
as House Is Dynamited.
POLICEMAN IS AMONG VICTIMS
Insane Blacks Arouse Neishbors
by Singing and Shooting, and Kill
Them as They Peer Out Doors
Several Persons Are Wounded-Po-
lice Bullet Ends Rampage.

lice Eutlet EnoS rampage.
Chicago. July 1s.-Henry Mcintyre,
a full blooded African negro, was over.
come with a mania to- anihilate the
world at 4:30 a. m. Four hours later
he and his wife were carried out of
their home at 800 North Irving av-
enue. He had killed four persons, one
of them q policeman; wounded three
others and kept an Infatuated posse
of 100 police and 100 neighbors armed
with rifles shotguns and reyolvers at
bay during that time, He was captuE-
ed after three charges of dynamite
had been exploded over his head and
under his feet to dislodge him. Dur
ing the siege the vicinity for a radius
of two blocks was filed with terror
Hundreds of Shots Exchanged.
Hundreds of shots were exchanged,
Mcintyre firing at every exposed body.
The police surrounding him with a
circle of guns, waited for him to show
himself. He stuck behind his barri
cade until Captain Wesley H. West
brook Of the Warren avenue police
station, set off two dynamite charges
over his head and one in tunnel un-
der his feet. The posses then rushed
forward shouting.
The first two policemen inside the
riddled and shattered house were
Eddie" Hughes and Michael Court
ney. On the floor, her body perforat-
ed with bullets, her head nearly blown
Off and heavy cartridge belt around
her waist, lay McIntyre's wife. Her
husband was still alive-still on his
feet. He had been partly stunned by
the explosion. He was staggering.
trying to raise his gun to fire when
the two policemen came upon him.
Eddie" Hughes let go and the bullet
caught Mcintyre in the head. He died
a few minutes later in the Park av.
enue hospital
Curious Neighbors Slain.
The neighbors were first aroused by
Mcintyre and his wife singing and
shooting. Alfred Matthews, a negro,
went to his front door to see what 1t
was about, and bullet passed
through his head killing him instantly.
Another negro neighbor, Hampton
Knox, his wife, Sadie Knox, and a
niece were also drawn to their
porches, when Knox was instantly
killed, and his wife seriously wound
ed. Crowds gathered by this time, and
the police had hardly reached the
spot and tried to enter the house, be-
fore Officer Stuart Dean was killed on
the threshold of the negro's door.
The Dead.
The dead and injured are: Stuart
Dean, sixty years old, killed outright.
Hampton Knox, thirty years old, ne
gro, killed instantly; Alfred Matthews,
forty years old, negro killed instant
eight years old, killed Instantly;
Mrs. Hattie Mcintyre, found in wreck
of her home with head shattered and
dead from numerous bullet wounds;
Henry Mcintyre, negro, responsible
for the killings, shot in head by Pc
liceman Edward Hughes, died at Park
avenue hospital; Edward Clement, de-
tective sergeant, forty-six years old,
shotethree times; taken to the Park
avenue hospital, condition serious;
Grover Crabtree, twenty-seven years
old, patrolman of the Desplaines
street station shot in right wrist and
right elbow; Mrs. Sadie Knox, forty
years old, gunshot wound in the back,
taken to the county hospital, serious;
John LAWN, policeman of Warren av-
enue station, wrist broken trying to
smash door.
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