| Show REPUDUCA1 U RIT AT CHIC GOON GO-ON KID AND SEVERAL WOuNDED Bloody Fight eteen Rival Factions I the Eighteenth WadAttck ig Pa Quickly Driven Off Chicago Nov 29An attempt to break up the annual meeting of the Eighteenth Ward Republican club at Bricklayers hal at Peoria and West Monroe strdets thIs evening resulted in the death of one of the attacking party and the wounding of several af those who participated in the fight The dead Charles Lattmer a bricklayer instantly killed Thewounded William Mahoney Wiiam Maoney po lceman at the Desplaines street station sta-tion shot in both arms and in the side will recover John W Landers laborer finger shot off John Prince janItor of the building shot in the left leg serious The club held its annual election tonight to-night and there was much rivalry between be-tween factions headed by Coroner Berz and John Rogers an exmc1ber o the city council oyer the offices The Benz faction gained possessIon of Bricklayers Bricklay-ers hal Rogers followers met in another an-other hal and maTched inabodyfo the hal The greater number of them rl mained in the street but Butch Smith Frank Matuska William Haines George Callahan and a few others entered the hal S Stories differ as to what followed but the members of the Berz faction in the hal and the two police officers who were stationed at the dot of the rom I In which the meeting was held assert that the men of the Rogers faction came noiselessly up the stairs having revolvers in their hands Officer Mahoney Ma-honey commanded the to hal but they paid no attention to him and just a they reached the door some one fred a shot Instantly pIstols were drawn on ever side and the firing was promlscous Coroner Berz was one of the first to fire whOa the trouble start Almost at the frs shot Latimer threw up hIs hands and rolled down the stairway dead His companions continued the fight only a short time and then they fed down the stairway At the first shot a crowd of the Benz faction came pouring in from the hal intent upon attacking the intruders but the fight was over in an instant and the Rogers sympathizers were gone The story toM by the Roger crowd is that Lattirner knocked on the door and demanded admission He attempted attempt-ed to force his way In and was shot down and the fight followed A wagonoa of officers was quickly at the door of the hal coming from Desplanes street station which is only a short dIstance aY Details were promptly sent after the flying members of the Roger party but up to midnight none of them had been caught Prince the janitor was put under arrest ar-rest it being charged that he had connived con-nived the attack When It was found however that he was wounded in the leg he was sent home After the ex ciement had died away the Berz faction fac-tion reentered the hal called the convention con-vention to order and elected the club officers without further = disturbance I |
