Garland Globe | 1908-03-07 | Page 6 | Russian Anarchist Attempts to Murder Chief of Police

RUSSWfi ANARCHIST ATTEMPTS .TO MURDER CHIEF OF POLICE I wades Home of Chief 8hlppey of Chicago, and Is Killed by the Man He Had Intended to Murder. Chicago Chief of Pollco Uoorgo M. Shlppey, IiIh son, Harry, and hlu driver, Jnmes Foley, were wounded by nn anarchist who attempted to assassinate assas-sinate the police officer In the hall of tho Intter'B lurildenco hlruitly after 9 o'clock Monday morning. A desperate desper-ate Htrugglo, In which Mrs. Shlppey and her tlnughtor, Gcorgctta, Joined, was terminated when tho chief drew his own revolver and killed his assailant. assail-ant. Tho would-ho assassin has been Identified ns a man named Lazarus Avcrhuch, who, for tho past threo weeks, hns lived nt 218 Washburn avenue, on tho west sldo of tho city. Ills Identification wan established tlttmigh n sister of the man, who was taken by tho pollco to the undertaking undertak-ing room. Averbuch was 22 years old and occupied occu-pied rooms nt tho ubovo address with his sister, Olga. Ho was a Russian student. Ho camo to Antorica threo months ago from Austria, to which country ho fled two years ago, following follow-ing tho mas'sacro of Jows In Kishinev, Kishi-nev, Russia, whero his homo had boon previously. His plan to kill Chief Shlppey Is bolloved to havo been formed as a direct result of tho tatter's tat-ter's Interference with a parado of unemployed un-employed men through tho city's streets soveral weokB ago.