Show i. i Bloody Battle in Kansas City Streets Develops r Fierceness of o Sharps Sharp's Band of Religious Fanatics SAY SA Y THEY DIED fOR THEIR COD 1 Little Children Manifest I Stolid Indifference to Their Fat Fate Fat J of LEADERS CLAIMED TO HAVE REVELATIONS Tribe Wandered Over the Country Preaching and AsKing Alms f J Jf t KANSAS CITY Dec 9 s.- s. ur I I am not going to die dle I am going to get well wen welland wenand and and live to kill a few more policemen That Is the assertion of or Louis Pratt soil solf styled Adam Adani God the tho religious fanatic who is IB lying in the general hospital hos hon pital hero seriously wounded in a a. battle his followers and the police late late yesterday As a result of ot the tho fight I I Pratts Pratt's year thirteen dang daughter Lulu 4 and aM Policeman Albert Dalbow are dead F and two other policemen are in a J. J critical r condition f. f I. I James Sharp kno known as 15 Elijah hn IL t ind Md nd who was the real bead head o of at the little b nd of religious enthusiasts is still at nt b j large r a-r e. e Shortly Shorty after The tho shooting yes yesterday e he walked into a saloon aloon and lai laid j lown his bis revolver er with the remark I ell Iam am m I satisfied I give ive iva up As Ag there were no poli policemen pr present sent and no one ona seemed inclined to take him hm into cus cu- tody Sharp waited a moment then picked up the weapon reloaded it and walked out B Ho Ha has not been seen een I ince inee 1 Yr Mrs Mm Pratt with two to of her young yonn alU daughters spent ni night ht in in tho the matrons matron matrons matron's ma ma- tron's tron room at police pollee headquarters headquarter but Mrs Irs Sharp who red fired two of the shots that stuck struck Policeman Michael I was confined in the jail I t- t f Mrs Irs Pratt bemoaned the tho death of her I other dau daughter Lulu a aged ed 13 who was hot shot durin during the second stage e of yester yester- i Jays Jay's battle battle when the women and chil chul then chen took a rowboat on the Missouri river and attempted to esca escape At the hospital this morning it was wasi I said aid that Patrolman had small chance of reco recovery ry but that Ser Sergt t. t Pat Pat- trick rick Clarkes Clarke's con condition was as li 5 slightly im im- im- im proved A. 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J Selzer SeIzer the bystander j who vho was hit bit by a stray bullet also is expected to recover Died for or Her God Mary bry Pratt the tho little litHe eleven year old year old j sister aster ister of tho the dead girl rl displayed the same remarkable coolness shown by her ber elders when questioned by bv the police i She did not cry when told of her sisters sister's sis sis sis- J ter's death She died for her God was the childs child's remark Then the girl zitI related the history of their wanderings You see we got ot acquainted with this m man n. n Sharp up in North orth Dakota she said That must have been two years ago This summer Bummer we ve began following him bm In the hous houseboat boat we started down I the Missouri river We stop at r each city and preach and sing Of fc r. r course ourse we wo kids did the sin singing nfl and it itI I w a was great reat fun We left St. St Joseph about t a week ago and floated down to Kansas I I r I City just as those those- ice cakes began to toL tor tot L t r appear i Yes it got ot cold on the boat but you know we were serving the tho Lord and our Master Jaster had to endure hardships when he be was on earth When we WP stood I on the street corners and san sang for the p people ople we wc felt repaid for we e knew wo we were doin doing the Lords Lord's work Needed seeded Firearms No they didn't make us ue children to sing We We Ve did it because wo we loved to do doI I so Those bi big guns tuns which we carried carrie were for protection Papa says this is a afree afree free country and we could carry firearms L if we ve wanted to Then we needed guns s to kill rabbits and ducks when W we were floating down with the current T Did we wo get hun hungry hungry v It The child turned her black eyes on n the questioner Of course we did sometimes but we I I didn't mind that Papa and mamma I went fent without thin things s to eat too 4 Mrs Irs Pratt in a statement to an a as assistant I prosecutor told of the bands band's I work Mr and Mrs Sharp our leaders leaders lead lead- ers said sad Mrs Pratt were known kno to tous tous I I us as Adam and Eve and wo believed their teachings It was waB revealed to Mr Sharp last summer that our mEtin meetings 5 were not to to- tobe be interfered d with again We IVe armed ourselves If tho the police attempt attempt at at- tempt to arrest you shoot said our j leader Header They cant can't kill me Ill I'll live forever The fhe I heard of the trl tragedy trag edy dy yes yesterday was when Lulu and aud Ma Mame Mary lame Came me running down to tho the boat and told tola me rue that the shooting was AO going D on I When tho the Officers Came I Then the officers came and wanted I 1 to take us away I got ot my ray Winchester down of off tho the wall told Lulu to get et a anun i nun gun un and we all got ot into a skill skiff that was tas tied to 19 tho the houseboat I sat in the 1 bow with mth my gun in my hand hanl I 1 wasn't rf j f going to shoot hoot unless I hall had to because t J I had had no chance to ask either A Adam am KJ Continued ca la Page pace o U 1 r it BLOODY BATTLE Continued from Pa Page e 1 or Eve or-Eve Eve what what to do dp do I am sorry I didn't resist Im I'm afraid I ha have havo 0 lost lot m my eter oter eternal eternal nal life because I think Adam would have advised me nie to shoot Lulu got into tho the back backof of the skill skiff which was covered and and anci Mary Iary took the tho oars and we wc started across tho the river rh The officers began shooting at time the boat We Wo drifted up to tho the bank anti and when I saw blood ou on Lulus Lulu's ear car I knew that she ahe was shot Then Mary and I got out and aud hung on ou tho side r-ido of tho the boat until they thov captured us its Mrs frs Melissa Sharp a slender E woman of middle 3 age e whose statement was taken taken ta ta- ken Iten by another officer detailed the occurrences occurrences oc oc- oc leadin leading up to yesterdays yesterday's fight and then told of tho the wanderings of the tho band Sharps Sharp's Revelation I was born in Mountain fountain Grove Grov Mo o. o 37 years rears ago on a farm said Mrs Sharp I 1 married Sharp a farmer twenty years n ago o and wo we went to Ar Ar- kansas Later we e went to Oklahoma and took up a J. J claim Wo We 0 had no religion reli reli- religion gion on then at all aU About bout six ix years CRI nomy ago no agoni ni my husband came carne homo home one night and said ho Ito did not think we Wc were living right Ho lIo h had d had a revelation of the faith of Go God GoWe We began to read the Bible Biblo and a week later I got tot tho the reve reve- lation Then wo we both repented for two weeks weeping and mourning not mourning not not because because be be- cause causo we wo wanted to to but because wo we could not help it The spirit of God came to us us the same samo that it came to Adam to David and to Christ We Va Wethen Wethen then thon sold wId our farm and gave ave tho money away to people who needed it and started started started start start- ed out to preach 41 Since then wo we have havo traveled through h Oklahoma Texas Kansas Missouri and J I Illinois Then we Wc went north ta to Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota and ana last a t summer wo we spent in Canada Cana Cana- II da da iu in Manitoba and Saskatchewan wan Wo Vo lived Jived on gifts gift made mado by bj converts and ana bv by small sums offered us h by whoever I c cared to One Ono man who found the tho light sold all l his property and anil put inVa in We Va kept all an tho the money in a common fund funa About last August when then wo WI came camo back from Canada wo we built a houseboat and started down the tho Missouri Ii ouri from a place in Montana near Whito White Earth E We float floated cd down clown the tho river stopping and preaching at towns and sometimes camping campin in tho the woods In Iu many places we wo have been een persecuted b by the tho officers officer who wanted to take taku our children awn away and mako make them go o to school Firearm Practice We We have hl been going goin armed for forman man ninny many months I havo have practiced shooting shooting shoot shoot- in ing and my mv my older children have havo practiced practiced shooting ng Nono None of tho time children can rea read a or write W Wo 0 taught them but Dut wo teH teach h them ri righteousness Paul Paul says tho the wisdom of tho world i is foolish foolish- ness Christ chose choso his disciples from fromi i ignorant orant people Christ did not go o to school My husband and anel I can enn read nn and write That is enough to teach the Bible Dible Chief of Ah Ahearn earn announced today today to to- day that yesterdays yesterday's s 's bloody affair would mark an nn end cull to street meetings in Kan Iian- Kansas sas City anti and ordered his men to allow no more speakers to address crowds on public thoroughfares |