| Show BLOODSHED IN DENVER Two Men Are re Killed and Sev Several y eral Wounded V olude THUGS THUG AS DEPUTIES DEPT 4 I SWEAR SW UT IN TO TO AID A THEIR TJI CAUSE C Denver Colo Cole Nov No G Before re a bal balot ballot lot Jot ot was WS cast ct in Deny Denver r today the trou trouble trouble trouble ble between the police department ent and the sheriffs office which had been per predicted pre dieted had ha begun Two men dead and four seriously Y wounded was the results result The Da Dead Charles Atlene Atene colored special dep deput ut sheriff u sherlf sheriff Stewart Harvey Harey colored colore deputy The Injured Charles Charle F Carpenter policeman shot in the leg and arm dangerously hurt hur Hampson Jackson colored special deputy sheriff sherif skull fractured and arm broken may die Charles Charle Green special policeman shot in the bank back bk seriously hurt Richard Hardman colored deputy sheriff sherif shot In the left lef arm Fifteen hundred hundred special policemen had been ben sworn in for fr the day and about 1000 special deputy sheriffs At 7 special policemen Charles F Carpenter and Green reen were sent to and Larimer Larmer streets street to supervise the opening of the polls in district H precinct 4 Several special deputies deputes were present Orders had been Issued by the fire fre and police plc board to refuse to recognize the authority of the deputies depute and arrest any who in any anyway anyway anyway way interfered with wih the police Under these thee instructions Officer Car Carpenter Carpenter penter ordered the t th deputies deputes to retire to 10 feet from the polls Hampson Jackson ackson colored resisted re and drawing a revolver began shooting One but let struck Carpenters arm ar and a sec see second second ond his foot Policeman Green came canie cameto to the rescue of his companion striking Jackson Jackon on the head and arm fracturing fracturing fracturing ing his skull and breaking his arm The blow broke the heavy oak club the officer carried Detective Opens Open Fire Fir Shooting by the deputies deputes became gen general generl general eral erl while the special police who were armed only with wih clubs were at a dis die disadvantage disadvantage advantage At this moment City De Detective Detective Ed Carbery Carber ran up and opened fire fre with his revolver killing kling Deputy Sheriff Allen Alen with wih the first shot A score of shots were fired fred by the deputies deputes deputies ties tes and Detective Carbery arbery and Deputies Depute Deputies ties te Stewart Harvey and Richard Hardman both colored shot the former in the right shoulder and the latter later in the left arm ar It I Is not known whose hose bullets wounded them Special Policeman Green was shot in the back None of these thes are fatally wounded Allen Alien Alen the man killed Is said by the police to have an unsavory record having served sered time in the penitentiary p He is said to have killed a man some sometime sometime time ago The feeling created by the affair of this morning is intense Yesterday Judge Hallet Halet of the United States dis district district district court issued an order forbidding the United States marshal marhal to appoint any deputy marshals to serve at the polls but the charge is made by the police department that a 1 large number of deputy deput sheriffs were swOrn in and armed at his office Criminals Sworn In Said Police Commissioner Robert W TV Speer Sper today Four hundred negroes negrOs many of them with wih long records for desperate deeds were sworn in as ns 1 deputy sher sheriffs sheriffs iffs ifs in the office of United States Ma Mashal a Bailey Bale in the federal building and given badges and pistols The special officers appointed by our board were unarmed except with wih clubs and or ordered ordered ordered dered not nt to use us violence except in ex extreme extreme extreme cases cas The trouble is the outgrowth of the bitter campaign in Denver and the state which involved not only the na national national tonal and state tickets but the elec election ele election tion ton of a United States States senator senat r to suc sue succeed cee Senator Wolcott Volcott The police department Is controlled by the Democrats and Sheriff Sherif Robert Jones onH who wan wae wa elected as af a Demo t but who Is said sid now to favor faor the Re Republicans Republicans publicans at the request of the Honest Election Electon league leage composed v vly ly Iy of Republicans issued a very ver large number of deputy sheriff sherIf commissions to men named by the league Yesterday the board of county count com corn commissioners commissioners missioners in disregard of an order ordEr of Judge Butler Buter of the district court re revoked r yoked the commissions given by Sheriff Jones Jone and though the court promptly took tok action acton against the commissioners for contempt the h fire fre and police poUce board acting on the he advice of leading attorneys ator attorneys decided to disregard the authority of the deputies deputes Deputies Deputes Are Arrested Several deputy sheriffs were arrested by policemen on charges of Impersonating Impersonating an officer and intimidating voters voter The police have hae also arrested a number of or voters v on the charge of false regis registration registration The Republican watchers challenged many persons offering to vote who it I is claimed are wrongfully ref rei red ed re and usually the persons chal thai challen ler len left lef the polls without voting Tv T special policemen and a special deputy fired fred several shots into the Tenth avenue hotel about noon today because the proprietor refused to fur furnish furnish furnish nish them with wih drinks No one was hurt The officers were locked up Ir It It was wa said sid that Governor Thomas had ordered troop trop C Colorado cavalry valry to be b in readiness to be called caled out and nd they are now at the armory Governor Gov nor Thomas Thoma denied this When asked oy ny whose who orders troop C had as assembled assembled assembled at the armory he replied I know nothing about it itHe ItHe ItHe He would say nothing more on the subject subject |
