Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-02 | Page 7 | Battle with Desperado

BATTLE WITH DESPERADO Sis Policemen Wounded One Fatally Fa-tally by Negro in New York New York Sept 1 Twenty policemen police-men armed with Winchesters engaged In a desperate battle with a negro tonight to-night In aJiousc at North Beach Four ollcera were wounded In a previous encounter today lie negro Jerry Hunter Hun-ter had fatally wounded one policeman and severely wounded another and then had taken refuge In the house armed and defiant After two hours of shooting on both sides Hunter set fire to the house Hunters wife ran out and attacked the men with an old sabre In the excitement ex-citement Hunter escaped but he was run down and captured Policeman Darcy and three men were taken to the hospital This afternoon Hunter shot at a man on the bench When John McKenna n patrolman was sent to arrest him Hunter shot McKenna from ambush fatally wounding him When other officers of-ficers were sent to the scene and tried to carry the Hunter house by storm Patrolman Arthur Drill wat fatally wounded Both Hunter and his wife were found to be wounded when they were finally overpowered