South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-18
PatrOImen Leading Assault
Gain Door But Are Driven
Back by Bullets From
Insane Mans Rifle.
.NEIGHBORS. AROUSED BY
SHOOTING, ARE KILLED
Wounded Negro Found in
Ruins of Building Shot
Three Times and Dies
Later in Hospital.
Inte5natioual News service

international News Service:
CHICAGO. July 1S-Seven per
sons are dead and five wounded as
the result of "A pitched battle be-
tween $50 policemen and negro
and his wife. barricaded IN a house
OF the west side today The battle
was ended only when the police
dynamited the nat building in which
the negroes We're quartered after
hundreds of shot had been fired.
Veteran Policeman Killed.
The woman was killed and the
negro shot through he head when
the police picked them up from the
ruins and the added tolls Of deaths
from the bullets fired from the
Negroes rifle was 1--WE. making "a total
list of seven killed 100 the battle and
hve wounded. OF the FIVE he killed.
che was Policeman Dean. "A veteran
of the Ha-market riots: another
was a white woman who had step
ped 20 her back porch to see what
was COINS on and who was instantly
killed hy a bullet in the head.
Negro Was Dcmentcd.
The negro is Bob" Mcintosh.
also known as Henry Mcintyre He
is said TO have been demented Tor
some time.
The dead are:
Mrs Mcintosh.
Policeman Stewart Dean
AIRS Josephine OvsrmeyeF.
Edward Knox. coloreu.
Two unidentified men who felt ou
al
when they attempted 20 enter -
house and whose bodies could not
be taken away before the house was
dynamited
The injured.
Policeman Edward Clemens.
Mrs. Edward Knox.
Policeman Crabtree.
Policeman Appleton.
Policeman LAWN.
Result Of Fcud.
The shooting resulted from "a feud
between MoIntosh's wife and the
white wife Of John Bedford. next
door Mrs Bedford's husband yes
terdav sought a warrant for Ne
Intosh's arrest following a quarrel
Irs Bedford says the minute she
STEPPED out of the ho1ze this morn
ing Mrs. Mcintosh fired at her
through a crack in the fence II
was this firing that brought Knox
out of his house
After the battle was an over the
police found rambling beautifully
written note left by Mcintosh citing
Bible quotations and declaring ne
had been designated as the savior
of the Africans in America.
Also. occupying a prominent place
on the living room wall was large
framed photograph or Pancho villa.
she Mexican bandit mounted. and
with rifle in his hands.
10 was shortly after 8 o'clock when
Edward Knox. who lives next door.
beard firing. and stepped out OF his
house He dropped instantly and
AIRS Knox went ont 20 see what had
happened She was wounded and
the police were unable 90 get 20 her
assistance until after the house had
been blown up.
Negro Opens Fire.
The police then appeared. and the
minute they showed up Mcintosh
opened fire. Il is presumed that his
wife also assisted him I'm repelhnE
invaders for she also wore a belt
fulI OF cartridges around her waist
Police Capt Wesley Westbrook.
IN charge Of the detail. called for
endorsements. with rifles. and hun
dreds OF shots were fired into the
house. There came ION in the fir
ing from the besieged pair and
charge was ordered Policeman
Dean was shot as the police gained
the door the era tree was shot
the arm and meek as he
carried Deans body away.
Decides 90 Dynamite.
IL was then that capt Westbrook
decided 90 dynamite the house WIN
the first foor covered bv his moi
he gained a rear stairway and
brought down from the second floor
"a negro named Amos his wife and
four small children Then a can OF
gasoline was fred in front 81 the
house 70 attract the attention 81 the