OFFICER FIRED THREE SHOTS June 29, 1904 news

In a wild affray in the saloon of Louis Klocke at Freeman avenue and Hopkins street, at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, in which Klocke, his cousin Charles Klocke, and Vincent Doty fought with savagery against Patrolmen Schafer and Hesselbrock, lives hang by a thread in a darkened room where the five battled. Hesselbrock fired three shots at Charles Klocke, slightly wounding him in the leg. Patrolman Schafer covered Louis Klocke and Doty with his revolver, as he alleges, they attempted to secure revolvers from a drawer in the bar-room. Billiard cues were wielded. Louis Klocke was felled unconscious and his scalp fearfully gashed by a policeman’s club, and Hesselbrock was robbed of his watch, it is charged. For desperation the fight has few equals upon the police annals.

was an encounter between Louis Klocke and Morris Frink, a lunchstand proprietor, who, it is said, Klocke threatened with a revolver. Frink blew a police whistle signal for help, to which Patrolmen Schafer and Hesselbrock responded. Klocke fled and was chased to his saloon by the officers, who battered down a door and entered after him. Instantly Klocke resisted, it is said, and grappled with Schafer. In a darkened hallway, then, a tangle of human beings rolled about the floor. Doty and Charles Klocke, it is charged, went to the assistance of Louis Klocke. Louis Klocke struck at Patrolman Schafer with a billiard cue and was felled with a club. As Charles Klocke seized another cue Patrolman Hesselbrock fired on him. One bullet passed through Klocke’s trousers and left a scar on his leg. Doty, it is charged, vaulted over the bar and attempted to open a drawer in which was a revolver. Patrolman Schafer drew his weapon and forced Doty to retreat with hands upraised. The trio was overpowered and a patrol wagon summoned. At the Fifth District station Patrolman Hesselbrock discovered that

The patrol wagon was searched and the timepiece was found concealed under the seat near where the prisoners had sat. A charge of pocket-picking was made against Doty by the patrolman. Doty, however, declares that during the melee Hesselbrock’s watch fell from his pocket and that he picked it up and would have returned it to the officer. In his claim of finding the watch Doty is supported by witnesses. Louis Klocke was charged with violating the midnight closing law and resisting arrest. Doty was charged with picking pockets and violence to an officer, and this latter charge was made against Charles Klocke in addition to interference with an officer. The cases of all the men were continued in Police Court.