The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-11-21
RED INTO THE CROWD,
. Jake" IA Notorious Character,
Adds Another Chapter to His
Criminal Career.
Marshal Treat and Wounds
Ia Lessard and Arthur Marks
sunday Evening.

record of events so appalling as that
In took place IN the depot Sunday
hing. Everyone hopes it will never
{cpcatcd in the enlightened state of
htana. 1t contained so much of the
ardicc and border ruiiianism that
eiders are apt to jump to the con
lion that Montana is still in the dark
of her career when murder was a
mon occurrence in the routine Of
tern life. But, thank God, such is
the case. for we have as orderly and
Labiding a people in this state as in
other. The man who caused the
uble was one of the last representa-
~ of a type of humanity fast disap-
ling. That he is still alive and not
13be pe~nitentiary is One Of the peculiar
les of this life which puzzles all
Ether he has failed TO meet his
b. or is a remarkably hard character.
kyone agrees that he is at last in a
(tion from which escape is an i'm
eibiity and Jake Harris checkered
Der is approaching its end.
Eost Of our readers are by this time
doubt familiar with the striking
hts in the shooting affray of Sunday
hing. 1t has furnished a thrilling
c upon which to display the
onal powers and few men in town
terday neglected the opportunity to
their private opinion upon the matter.
tious accounts of the direct causes
ding up to the shooting are constantly
fanced and few of them coincide. The
tally accepted one is to the effect that
en the excursion train from Nei-
t was over half the way in
town Jew Jake, who was
byicated got into an alteration with
Pther passenger and was on the point
threshing him when Marshal Treat
erfered. Jake resented the interior
Be Of the representative of law and
Ter and struck at him. For this he
IS promptly knocked down into his
i again and told that if he created
fther trouble he would be arrested.
Ike muttercd something about getting
N but did not put his threat into exc
tior until the stop at the depot in this
~. Then he walked stealingly out of
+ car behind the marshal drawing his
~ TO be ready for his Italian attack.
psf as the marshal stepped upon the
$atform and started toward the Park
ptel' Jake ram up behind
|m striking him blow
pened fire upon the de~fenseless officer.
D the time he fired the fourth shot the
had succeeded in drawing his
Pr from beneath his closely buttoned
Pat, and, though wounded, returned
Pc fire. The first shot from the officers
lstol struck Jake in the thigh and he
III to the platform. He then rolled
, almost under the wheels of the car
} shield himself from the bullets COM
n at him in quick succession. They
struck the platform. some Embedding
pemselves in the wood and the others
Funding into space.
Having emptied his revolver at his as
plant the wounded marshal said to a
tysician in the crowd, Il am shot,
lease look after me- and started TO-
Yards the Park hotel assisted by friends
though wounded in two places, in the
flgh and in the back in the vicinity OF
pc right kindcy, the marshal was ahlc
\ walk to the Park hotel where he was
Ptended by physicians.
Joseph Lessard. a well known citizen
kibby. was struck in the head by one
the flying bullets from Jakcs pistol
Pc ball entering close to the left eye
e was hurried to Il doctors Office bHl
+ medical aid could be of little assist
|nce he was put to bed. 1t will require
day or two yet to locate the exact posi-
ion of the ball. The doctors pr bee
bout two inches for it yesterday bu'
re still doubtful as to its location
Arthur Marks. the young son OF
,larks, a prominent liquor merchant o
ielena, was also struck by Il flying bul
ct. 1t entered the boy
eft leg Just above the kne,
md passed around the bone and out
The physician who dressed the wound i
# the opinion that it will probably hea
right. There were hundreds OF pee
de on the platform and it is certainly,
none of them were struck b,
tray bullets. Tho crowd all hurried I
he hotel to learn how badly tho wound
ID people were hurt, forgetting Tor
lime the person who had caused II al
The latter lay wrlthing in the snow a
tempting to get ON his feet until som
one helped him up, put him INTO Il nae
and deposited him in the county, jan
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