The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-07-07
ROBERT RIlI SERIOUSLY STABBED.
\ Desperate Cowboy Does MS hest
60 Get IntO the shadow Of
the GaIIOWs.

On Saturday night Of last week at about
Il O'clOck The report was quickly circu-
ID ed on the street that Robert Ryan, q
b ltcher in the employ Of George CATpen-
ter, had been seriously stabbed by cow
by named Sherman, during al alierca-
tnn that took place in the rear rom d
Shardlow Il McDanIel's saloon. TIE
HERALD representative was speedily on
the scene and found Ryan with an ugly
knife wound above the nipple Of the ri.ht
breast. Companions were endeavoring
to stop the flow Of blood, which had
ALREADY been great, by holding the sever
ed flesh together, but Ryan was fast grow
ing very weak, and it VAS some tine be-
FIRE Doctors Gum and TAFT arrived.
The physicians pronounced tue wound y
serious one, and afteFN ards on fndinR
another and equally bad cut in the small
Of Ryan's back, they expressed little hope
Of his recovery, although they could not
say positively Us they feared to probe the
wounds. Early in the morning. Ryan ap-
Peared to he sinking vely fast Hnt Ut the
request OF friend. he was removed to the
hospital where he soon rallied and has
been improving ever since with strong
prospects Of his recovery.
The cause Of the trouble is shrouded ia
doubt. The baTks-Ier says he beard u
little noise in the back room, but not
enough to rsge,'iaily attract his attention
until the sIuDOins nad Leen done. There
we're number Of men present At the time
and frouI their various stories 1t seems
that the two men were scuIiing, Ryan
being 10 fun all the time; but Sherman,
v no Is said to be about half Nilted, was
mad and finally pulled two edged knife,
or dagger, which he carried IN the waist
band Of his pants, and struck Ryan in
the back and then in the breast. After
the cuttirg Sherman walked into the bar
room, where some one advised him to
skip out. He evidently thought the I'D
vice good for he turned back, going out Of
the rear door and over the fence. Sheriff
Simmons and Deputy DiIley were out OF
town at the tune aud no effort was made
Tor several hours 10 capture the culprit,
but finally John A. Stone, Sam VInsOn,
Marshal Henderson and Henry Mabry
procured horses aud started of. It was
supposed that Sherman would strike out
for the Mckee, where he has friends, and
this supposltion proved correct. BY his
high healed boots and peculiarly Of walk
he WAS tracked TO the Mckee cattle ranch
Messrs. Henderson and Stone searched
the hUuse while Vinson and Mabry went
to the barn. The latter found their man
imbedded in the hay and took charge Of
him without resistance, and brought him
to the city where he Is now confined in
the county Jail. Sherman has an unsav-
Dry reputation and at the time Of the last
srrape he was under bonds for drawing n
knife on man ut the Valley House, sumo
weeks previous.
MIR. Ryan, the wounded man. is fine
looking young fellow for whom all his
acquaintances have Q good word. lie in
not quarrelsome nor dissipated and is not
in the habit Of frequenting saloons. He
has wife and two children.
sherman takes his arrest and confne
ment coolly and doesn't appear to rerOs-
nize the seriousness Of his crime. Should
Ryan die there would certainly be trial
for murder, as there is not a shadow OF
justification for the desperate act.