Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — TWO DEAD, FOUR HURT. [ARTICLE]

TWO DEAD, FOUR HURT.

Result of Attempt to Arrest Female Doctor at Gilman, 111. Two men dead, two fatally wounded and one man and a woman seriously injured is the result of an all-night fight made by a constable and deputies in attempting to arrest Dr. Mrs. Charlotte Wright, who conducts a hospital in Gilman, 111. The trouble was precipitated by the investigation of the coroner’s jury into the death of Dessie Salter,-16 years old, of Leonard, 111., who died in the hospital and was taken to her home in Leonard under cover of darkness. After the jury had heard the evidence of Clarence Salter, father of the girl, a warrant was sworn out by Police Magistrate W. T. Irelan for Mrs. Wright’s arrest, and Constable Milstead, accompanied by half a dozen deputies, with a mob of a hundred citizens at their heels, went to the house to serve it. The house was silent and dark. When the constable had demanded entrance the third time the door was kicked in, nml the first man to enter was Deputy Mike Ryan. He received a load of buckshot in his abdomen and died in twenty minutes. The house was burned and it was supposed that the inmates were dead, when all at once some one Cred from the bushes in the yard nt the sentries posted around the burning building. aud two men were carried off mortally wounded. They were George Willoughby ami Pete Hauer. The shots were fired by John Meyers, n man who had been living with Mrs. Wright since her husband died seven years ago. Meyers was riddled with bullets. Mrs. Wright was found wounded in the arm and lying on a brush heap in the shadow of some bushes. She was taken to the City Hall and a strong guard placed over her. Threats of lynching were strong.