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Show OFFICERS SHOT DOWN BY IRATE SECTION, HANDS Sheriff and Two Deputies Fall Under Bullet Fired From Boxcar Homes of Alleged Trouble Makers TWENTY-EIGHT MEN LANDED IN PRISON ! After Shooting, Track La- borers Attempt to Escape by Boarding Train, but Land in Arms or umcers ' BBARDSTOWN. HI- April It (By A. P.). Out of tho greatest flood In Its history Into tho renter of tho greatest great-est shooting affray It haa over experienced, experi-enced, the city of Beard st own and tho vlllago of Frederick, separated by tho swollen Illinois river, were Joined at daybreak today In an attempt to exact Justice for tho killing at Frederick laat night of Sheriff Kdward Lash brook and Deputy Sheriffs Carl Neff and Frank Utter of Schuyler county. Stories of the shootings at Frederick Freder-ick and tho subsequent arreot of twenty-eight Greek section hands, charged with the killings, aa they Jumped from tho Chicago, Burlington Qulney train as It pulled Into Beardatown, equal the wildcat fiction. These Greeks, who three weeka ago. when tho flood was at Ita crest, wore ordered out of Beardatown. were charged with nightly trouble making at Frederick, where they were repairing repair-ing tracks damaged by- flood water. Sheriff Lashbrook. with three deputies, depu-ties, approached tho Greeks' boxcar homo laat night to arrest them. THREE MEN FALL. A vollev ran out aa tho nuartet stepped on the station platform. Three of tho four fell. Deputy J. M. Kelly Jumped to safety behind tho station. From that point, ho says, ho saw tho Greeks rush to a Chicago, Burlington A Qulney passenger train which had Just pulled into tho station aa tho shoot In ceased. Others ran in tha ctlbpsljoilrootlon. Across tho river. Chief of Polios Robert Patterson and four poUceoien waited for tho train, aenolng tha trouble. trou-ble. The Oreeks literally Jumped Into their arms. Four of them mads a wild effort to escape. They plunged waist deep Into tho water In Boards-town's Boards-town's etreeta Chief Patterson headed tho twenty-eight twenty-eight captured toward tha elty Jail. Guards bout the place war quadrupled quad-rupled and every precaution waa taken to prevent possible vlotenoe. In Frederick, meanwhile, Schuyler county authorities were working faat. Coroner Fred Harvey and Rtate'e Attorney At-torney Morning arrived from Rushvlllo and an inquest waa begun. Deputy Kelly asked that tho Inquest bo postponed. In order that he might turn all hla energy to getting the men atlll at largo. His request waa granted and the hearing postponed until o'clock, at Rushville. Ho headed the posse which killed ons man outalde Frederick at i:0 a. m. Another was arrested at Browning, five mllea up tha river. He had walked ths distance dis-tance and waa caught while attempting attempt-ing to board a train. Cartridges and a raaor were found In big pockets. ! RECEIVE PRISONERS. tHneraflnns were made at Ruahvllla at the same time, for tho reception of the twenty-eight prisoners bold at Beardstown. There waa some doubt, however, In tho minds of some of- the Schuyler county folks, whether tho removal of tha prisoners to tho county seat, where tho dead men were eo well known, would be wise. Nothing would be done, it waa announced at Ruahvllle. until further word from tho etatVe attorney. at-torney. , Sheriff Laahbrook was 40 years old. Utter leavee a wlfo and four children. Neff was 46. The sheriffs term waa to expire thla fall and he had an-nounced an-nounced that he Intended to retire. EXPLAINS MISTAKE. Deputy Kelly, tho only survivor among tho county forces, explained thla morning that the section handa mistook tha peace efforts of tho sheriffs men when the latter approached ap-proached the box car settlement, and opened fire under the misapprehension that they were besieged. Rlfraff elements of the levee district dis-trict objected to tho presence of the foreigners In the community snd bad molestsd tho workers constantly slncs thslr arrival a few days ago. harassing harass-ing and bantering them aa they worked. Kelly explained that a clash between these two elements wss feared and that the forces wero sent to Frederick In an attempt to prevent an outbreak. Tho approach of the county officers wsa tho signal for the barricaded workers to open fire, following fol-lowing which tho general shooting took place. Robber Is Given Six Months TACOMA. Waah., April I. Manly G Borrow, brought back from Detroit. Mich-, and pleading guilty to tho robbery rob-bery of the Elma. Waah., postofflce. haa been sentenced In federal court to servo alx months in ths county Jail at Monte sons, Wasb. Ths robbery eo-currcd eo-currcd two years ago. . Musical Burglar Under Arrest BAN FRANCISCO. April It. Violin Vio-lin case In hand. John Webber, whom police called "The Mualcal Burglar." waa arrested In connection with sixty (.Continued on page 2.) OmCERSSHOT (Continued from page 1.) house robber! es in Ban Krancisco In he laat nine months. 1 "If I have to go hack to the pen!-1 terttiury." he told dvtectlves, I hopa t they send me before June 1, so I will 1 be In time to join the orchentra." Webber explained that tryouta for the prison orchestra, at Folsom close June 1. Six Men Are I Under Indictment ! RANT FRANCISCO, April 2f. The federal grand Jury, which began In- ventilation today of an alleged liquor conspiracy aatd by federal authorities I to Involve members of the police department, de-partment, returned Indictments attain at six men, proprietors and patrons of soft drink resorts. The federal court fixed ball, at 110,-000 110,-000 for 'each man. Poisoned Plums Theory Advanced NEW YORK. April 29 Possibility that Mr. and Mrs. I-Yeemont M. Jackson, Jack-son, whos bodies were found In th bathroom of their apartment In a Brooklyn hotel Wednesday morning, were killed by poisoned plums, haa been advanced bv Dr. K. M. Vaughan. medical examiner of th district attorney at-torney of Kings county. Ths police hsv abandoned their first conclusion that th Jacksons died natural deaths or. at any rate, by poison taken accidentally. They now say that Mr. and Mrs. Jackson either died in a suicide pact or were pol-soned pol-soned by someone who sent them fruit loaded with a drug or chemical that lng death. The most Important support of the murder theory Is the finding In Mr. Jackson's stomach of a large piece of fresh plum. That It waa fresh plum and not preanrvrd plum Is certain, according ac-cording to r. Vaughan, who made certain cer-tain of thla fact before making his statement. Juat what did cause tha death of the couple will not be known until the chemists have re turner! their report re-port to the district attorney. The po- lice say that If the reports sustain I their theory of murder, they have their hands the most elaborate murder mur-der mystery New York haa aeen for years. The relatives of the Jackaons scout the suicide theory and point' to the excellent ex-cellent health of both Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, aa well as emphasising the fact that both wera extremely wealthy In their own right Police Attempt To Get Robbers CHICAGO, April 29. More than 100 policemen and special detect ivea made a cordon about an entire block In the downtown district early today In an effort to trap the robbere who were attempting to enter vaults containing contain-ing $100,000 worth of fura. The robbers rob-bers dodged about among department stores, going through ekylighta from one building to another, finally as cap-tug. cap-tug. The Mock where tha scene occurred Is on the "world's busiest comer (fltate and Madison streets) am comprises a number of the leading bualneas house of the Icty. |