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Another Is Seriously Wounded In Sensational Shooting Affair In Saloon ) t'ntSaturday Night. jliN. SLAYER RUM CRAZED,ManI»Patrick Donahue, Bartender, and John P. Watkins, ; Patron, Victims of Arthur “Red” Hanlon.* AssocSatBelle[ Floydity, waI RockviThree are dead, and. one set- the sla iouslv wounded following a sen- Southnational shooting about i o'10®* U20; Saturday night m the saloon ot at 7 .0? Ph'irles F. (“Toddy”) Green, 19 ed dea Front street, when Arthur N..M. Cw(‘Red”) Hanlon, evidently^dnnik cian, , i*d drug-crazed, openedI fire. Mad.with a heavy csalibre re*v oh er sentencI he men congregated in the bar-, made troom, after being refused a^ch, apnh of liquor. • j™™The dead: ^ wm in reivedPatrick Donohue. ear* J* hoMrs oPolk street ’ employed a . bai w;at the Green saloon, ra th_ jn ^ntfck and lungs. He died dmo-t i.n ^ ^mediately. old, 110 'sentenrJohn P. WattaBS 52 years ; Srak; Ohio treigm. ’ t Alle- L. Coucd in the left temp£clt;miiy Ho°spUal 4 o'clock SundayArthur N^H^on. jhemdPiedmont W *... T_h€ breast; relutivHalted shortly after the arrival of j ^ the police. ifcnun*The wouudea. • p hu.m0it T tfiminev. of Meadvdie. Pa..,hjs m;iroat of U» saloon !»•’«? S3doffiaad Wf ocnV ^koa * SSft1V8SUff.Wg ss^„ Haaloa nrmn.l wiA a gun and aof ?!n.. to ai.*n1 poc . I” Tmsrv mood- According mim aloon in an aQ§rJ rr ; taxi-driver' 1 LilX o Norman Messman. a taiwimer. mui.-Vrt*'tfnk ~hlm: there in a machine,,Iculon declared '.his intention ^ .. ‘ if thev refusei.l Ihtq a,irink in the saloon lie intended to ^.jeri St S the Place. He earned out; DuAppdlv 'boast. . , • w*ivSeo^^tSeWadre^shoRtly after . • agMesssnau responded. H? ^eplfce men, driver to take him to G em ed h[•m arrival die went inside, got a rioi£ Mil changed tonavid R. Keefer, the banenden chaj^ ^ , ed the money. Messman got his fare baUlt; —seventy-five esnts. Hanlon ^dere Gl0,J( a * drink with the rematamg auaruei^,He. was refused. Keefer ?,ellirir ^1“ - his 1 he was lmlt-drunk now Hanlon ^ . drew his gun and began to blaze . ^ZZr rromfecooasly. ™1ngtout of the saloon door. _ builds Donahue First Victim. ; ^u js supposed tiiat Haraoo fc.l ed deT . Donahue first, shot Wattans and Kim-, mev. and after firing several eho^j about the bar. turned the weapon ■ upon himself. He died a minutes . after the police arrived. One bulle. Merced both display windows of theT\VTXUDonahue, ^hoBo'Ce ‘relyU-. WUv was in his# shirt ■eves, wag talking to Watkins in rat of the bar and he advanced to-. ird Hanlon, after Ms threatening mlav. with the evident intent of; sarming him. when Haulon shot ; ni down and then shot Watkins and mnaev. After lie had emptied the; n. Hanlon evidently reloaded and;•aed the weapon on himself, firms shots. The first two bullets V arazed bis chest and were j;- found in the room with bits,of tiling material sticking to them. a third bullet entered his chestj came out between the shoulders. p close firing set fire to his cioth-; which was burning when the po-r1 arrived.ifanlou carried a .33 c-alibre re-.Ivor, with a barrel holdings six ells. Following the shooting, the, lice were summoned and a detail ritv and State police under As-itr.nt Chief Peter J. hlinnicks. went the scene in the patrol from Fo-headquarters and in motorcyJcs.,(,v placed a cordon around the so-:-n and conducted an investigation ider the direction of County Coro- 1 •« Joseph B. Finau. Chief Oscar A. me ,-ennan and Mayor Thomas YV. koon til mr the dead and wounded had been ?himoved. PBlood Spurted Like Fountain. i,\\V great nool of bloort 3av.on thft Ho ,or trhftn^Donahuo Ml. His oiro:; Wi arterv vras and ttio tilood . \\.iMrt^i’fTon) hiw like a fountain. ;nlt;Ravine ail objects near him. Tho Gt. had all V.\? api'raranoo oC ?.to5nopJcmOLdiBib«tbtbcinblei? of the veriest, type.»lii'gv3 kOBe(}rnoiTO 1 • * ,3artender Keofer Ducks Shots•ivid R Keefer, the mirtendcr. pped down behind the bar and ,1ns back room. Perry Moss Wi.who was standing beside :i pairweis'inng scales also took refuge ind the bur during th»i tUMiaoeosimped nnburrned.several otliors noiv the doorawny when they saw Hanlonw the gun,•hov were John W. Kobuui. Ilarn-irtreet. Tlmr.slon F. CraiH-s. hard street, and ^amu.d JMrm-s^ r;tb strcv*t Ar’lmr •*veVlv Terraec. av.d Frank lV-»ts w;iS passing mi the sawIimi fire :vul IV.namm ta«.. On*crashed through the windo j(.* investigation of the rooms dia-kriylt. rhai:nter of business «.u»-wiUw«’NvCoatittUeu on page I'Dn
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Cumberland Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Mon, Mar 05, 1923
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