The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-16
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FATALLY SHOT
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I'D. ON her, 1t 3O7 twenty !
SSa street. Oftcers kirsch and
& ;1irrm, who were In the station,
~ detailed to investigate the call.
! ~ took one OF the police cars
- stsrted for the address given.
b: 1Geers Miner and Green Joined
..s-sat the corner Of Twentieth
y, and Third avenue. as 10 usual
a ell Of this SORT and the tour
led to the place.
x2vo-story building nearly one
,sIi11,of a block long, on the east
Il Twenty-second street. be-
{ s;.sins two doors south Of the cor
100 Third avenue. is divided into
,.eshairs and downstairs fats. The
ssooud nat from the north end is
N ma was occupied by the Scots.
~ police car stopped across the
.,tssf and the four officers seized
nj weapons or made them ready
m instant use and went across and
40 the place.
The front door opened into a
i .aall hallway in which a stairway
leeds upstairs. Just inside the hall
4 he left door opens into front
NOM. Into this went Green, closely
allowed by Miner and then Gun
drum. Kirsch, who had driven the
81. left it last and entered the
house last.
There was but one light inside,
! smoky coal oil lamp, which stood
near the front windows on large
trunk. 1t lighted the front room
bat dimly. A negro woman stood
In the room. She is believed to
have directed officer Green into a
rear room through a large door. 1t
vas almost pitch dark in this back
room, which later proved to be the
kitchen.
Gundrum Tells Of Battle.
without hesitation, Green plung-
ed into the back room and Gundrum
followed him. AS Gundrum said
afterward:
FOR second we could see moth
ing. l had the portable searchlight,
though, and with it we spotted a
biz black man standing back in the
corner in front to our left, near a
door which was shut anu behind a
cook stove.
He had shotgun up to his
shoulder pointed at us. Green made
dive for him, grabbing the gun
and the man at the same time.
was holding the light, but Green
shouted for me to help him and
dropped the light and tackled the
negro around the waist. Miner had
come in in the meantime and be-
gan shooting at the negro. Green's
gun also went off. Then the shot
gun went off. Kirsch shot the Negro
twice. l put my gum up to his side
and fired several times and thu
three of us-Green, the negro anG
fell in a heap partly into a big
low wood box standing behind the
stove.
when I got to my feet the two
we're still lying there. Green's gun
was on the floor. / pulled him away
and he sagged back against the
closed door. l, tore the shotgun on,
Of the hands of the negro, whit
seemed to be alive.
II was sure Jimmie (Green) was
done for. He didn't speak, and HI
was limp, and l could see he wa:
badly wounded.
"All this fight was made mucl
worse by the fact that the light
when l dropped it to help Green
fell over on its front and that KEEP
it from doing us any good"
Kirsch Narrowly Escapes.
Kirsch, who had entered last O
all, narrowly escaped being strucl
by some of the load of shot from
the negro's shotgun which killed
Miner. Kirsch told his story:
"As l came through the othel
room saw Miner fire into the cor
ner and then run over there.
Il rushed over into this cornel
and Just as l got there-it wal
dark and could hardly see
thingAa shotgun went off right il
front of me, and I could see as tn
shot grazed by my left side that ]
had hit Eddie.
"Rudie Gundrum got his gun III
close to the negro and fired it
couple of times and he and Cree
and the negro fell. l put a coupl
Of more shots into the negro as h
was still fighting. Miner staggere'
across the room and fell, and Gun
drum went over to help him Will
looked at Green and went to cal
the ambulance and notify head
uarters."
The Knox ambulance arrived f1v
minutes later. Miner was take
first, and he died in the vehicle be
fore the hospital was reached
Green, who had been pronounce
dead, was taken next, and hi
wound was probed at the hospita
Last went the negro.
The woman who was in the plac
Was taken to the police station
where she gave her name as MIR:
hattie Scott, the negro's wife.
Cries for Her ~Snow."
She was in a half stupor, sur
posedly from the effects Of cocaine
You can't take my snow; Civ
mat back to me-" she proteste
When in the search of her clothin
Al the police station the police too
a small tin box from her. Snow
IS slang for cocaine.
The Scott place was ransacke
oy the police. The most significar