Deadly Bar Brawl at Brunke’s Saloon

The day of December 4, 1902 was not just an ordinary Thursday at Brunke’s Saloon at 115 North State Street in St. Joseph, Michigan. The proprietor at Brunkes was 30-year-old Amos Brunke, son of William Brunke and Charlotte Gaylor. Amos’s kid brother Harry had come in with his 57-year-old uncle Charles, and a few other