Officer Kills A Boy

Chicago, Sept. S.- ín attempting to frighten ofL a gang of lioodlums who were bent on taking a prisoner from. him Potrolman Mahoney shot and küled James Linhart, a 5-year-old child, near West Fifteenth and Jefferson streets, Monday afternoon about 5 o'clock. The little fellow was standing in the middle of the street, down which one of the toushs was speeding, and received the bullet in the groin. the missile passing up through the abdomen and out at the left side, near the back. He clasped his hand where the bullet had struck him and toddled manfully to the door of his home, where he feil in a faint. As the child dropped to the sidewalk his mother rushed out and carried the bleeding form of the little sufferer upstairs and placed it on a bed, moaning in her sorrow. while the din of the struggle outside and the rattle of the patrol wagon and the ambulance that had been summoned added to the confusión. Mother Is Grief-Stricken. "O, my boy, my boy, he's taken from me." wailed the grief-stricken mother, amid a chorus of cries from the other members of the family, as the little fellow, bleeding and still unconscious, was carried to the wagon to be taken to the county hospital. But the lamentations were drowned in the oaths of the hoodlums and the shouts of the pólice and the infuriated neighbors. for the patrol wagon that took Mahoney and his prisoner to th station and the ambulance that bore the child to the hospital left at the same time, and had to push their way through a frantic crowd of 500 or 600, who clamored for vengeance. The neighborhood is known as one of the worst for a policeman in the city. It was the rendezvous of the Mortell and McGrath gang and a number in the crowd who took part in the affray are known as thé "remnants of the Henry street gang." It is thickly populated and the least excitement always attracts a crowd. A short time before the accidental shooting of the Linhart boy Policeman Mahoney raided a gang of can-rushers in an alley between "West Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Jefferson and Union streets He succeeded in catching one of the gang, a man who gave his name as Eugene Sullivan. and took him to a patrcl box at Jefferson and West Fifteenth streets to cali a patrol wagon. Oifiier. Draws His Kevolver. WhiU' wáitihg for the wagon to arrivf. si .1 strusrsrlins' with Sullivan. who was trying to free himself, Mahoney was asisaulted by two of 'Sullivan's companions, who had come to the latter's rescue armed with billies and clubs. One of them struck Mahoney on the right temple with a club, felling him to the pavement. He still clung to his struggling prisoner, however, receiving a bruise on the left side of his head in falling. Fearing that a larger number of the crowd of can-rushers, who were gathering around him, would assail him and secure his prisoner, the offlcer drew his revolver. At this the crowd scattered. The policeman flred at one of the men who had struck him and who was running west qi West Fifteenth street. The man vas about 150 feet away when the shot 'as fired and the policeman says t.ht he saw no one else in that directo" a-t the time. The Linhart boy wyé standing almost in front of his 'n home when the bullet, which misd the intended torget, struck him. He was taken as quickly as jossible to the County hospital, where"e d'ed a few minutes after his