Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-03-01 | Page 1 | Crazed Negro Slays Trio in Denver Office

CRAZED IIEGRO SLAYS TRIO IN DEIIVEROFFICE Fourth Is Wounded in Relief Agency Slaughter DENVER, March 1 (INS) An apparently demented negro, identified as Frank Bailey, 59, shot and killed three men employes of the Denver city welfare bureau in their office in the Denver general hospital today , and shot and wounded a woman employe through the head, probably fatally wounding her. THE DEAD Kame E. Tunnel, St, director oi puouc weiiare. Oliver Milliken, $6, public welfare wel-fare employe. Carl Dedlo, 17, public welfare employe. Th injured : Mrs. Ramona Chambers, 26, also an employe of the bureau. Refused Relief Bailey, a transient, had been calling call-ing regularly at th bureau demanding de-manding relief, which was refused him because hs did not live In Denver. Den-ver. This morning h entered the bassment of the hospital where the bureau offices are located, walked through a waiting room In which 20 men, women and children were seated, and into Tunnell's office, wher four bureau employe were at work. After a few brief words with Tun-nell, Tun-nell, he raised th revolver, which he had been holding at his aid, and fired at TunnelL Th first? shot missed its mark, and Tunnell grappled grap-pled with the burly negro. A second sec-ond shot passed through the director's direc-tor's head, and he dropped to the floor. 8hoota Both Milliken and Dedlo attempted to disarm Bailey, but he shot both of them before they could reach him. Mrs. Chambers was talking to Frank Brooks, a visitor, when the shooting started. After shooting Tunnell, Dedlo and Milliken, Bailey fired a bullet through her head. Brooks dropped to the floor as though he, too, had been shot and the negro stalked out of the office. Passing through the waiting room, where terror-stricken relief clients cowered on the benches. After leaving tn building. Bailey glanced upward and saw two nurses, attracted by the shooting, standing at a window of a wing of the hospital. He fired two shots, which shattered th glass of the window. Bullets grazed Miss Edna McDonald, Mc-Donald, one of th nurses at whom be fired, but she was uninjured. The other nurse, Miss Lillian Cosley, escaped unharmed. Escapes Bullets M. A. White, an employe of the hospital, also escaped the bullets fired by the negro after the latter had reloaded his weapon. Bailey continued to fire promiscuously promis-cuously until the revolver was emptied, emp-tied, and left the building. Bailey walked leisurely from the building, and was arrested within two blocks of the scene of the carnage. car-nage. He did not resist arrest. Hospital attaches said Bailey had made many calls at the relief office, of-fice, waa Insistent upon securing sld. but never had mads any thretas. i