The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-26

SENTHIS SHEPHERD DOG FOR AID
Expedient Of Man Mortally Wounded In
Montana.
PROF. W. N. WAITE,
OF Amherst, Mass, Chewed Tobacco for
40 Years, and Was Cured by
Narcotic Cure.


Montana.
From the Providence Journal
The intelligence Of the shepherd dog
and his faithfulness to man were dem
onstrated IN remarkable way In con
nection with the death of Charles Gill
len, a native of this city, who wac killed
In Montana, two months ago, by the
accidental discharge OF a revolver.
Gillen was one of a family that grew
up in that part Of this city adjacent to
the old Oriental Millpond, at the North
End, and there are many now in this
city who will remember him as q jolly
| and yet exceedingly quiet youngster,
who used to skate with them on the
pond and coast with them on what was
known then as Taylor street, now FIJI
| more street. He has brothers and sis
| tiers now living on Charles street, one
Of whom is member of the Providence
police department.
Fourteen years ago Charles Gillen,
then eighteen years old, left home to
seek his fortune in the west. He went
| to Chicago and for year was a fore
man in Swift's big meat-packing con-
Germ. Then he went further west,
and in the past nine years has been
a buyer Of cattle for the Butte City
| Butchering company in Montana. He
| was regarded as one of the most ex-
| pert judges and buyers of cattle in the
state. During these years he trav-
eled all over Montana, continually buy
| ing cattle at the ranches and sending
! them to Butte City. He was reputed
| to be able to pick out 100 head of cattle
from a drove of 500, and to send a
| remarkably accurate estimate to his
| employer of the weight of the cattle
when dressed, jud ging 1t on the fhoof.
In all his transactions he was care
full that he might gain a reputation for
| square deadng, and it was said in Butte
City that Charlie Gillen's word is as
good as any mans bond for $4,000 any
| where in Montana"
| On May Q he was out on a buying
| trip, and was in "the Big Hole coun-
try" 10 miles from Butte City. He
| had bought lot of sheep and castle
and was going further into the coun-
| try to visit other ranches.
He usually paid for his purposes with
| checks, but when he went to ranches
so far from business centers he could
make better terms for cash, because of
the inconvenience of travelling to get
checks cashed. He had taken some
! Sc, 600 with him on this trip, and for
protection carried a revolver. He had
l t1J T. 3,, +xfro
! and there was a reason for this. Two
years previously he had been attacked
| by man and shot him. After that
affair though the man was not mortally
| wounded, he gave his pistol to the sher-
| if, and Travelled without one until he
started on this trip, carrying a large
sum of money into the widest part of
| the state.
AS he mounted his horse, the revolver
was discharged. He had dropped the
pistol. muzzle upward, into the ''chap,"
as the hip boots of soft leather worn
! by riders in that country are called,
and in getting on the horse the hammer
| hit against the horn of the saddle. A
| ball was sent up through his groin,
and, passing upward through the body,
came out penlnQ one Oh the shoulders.
| He fell to the ground, but rallied, and
| MORALLY wounded though he was, he
| once more climbed into the saddle, but
could not sit on his horse.
Painting from loss of blood he tum-
bled out of the saddle a second time.
When he revived, his shepherd dog was
over him, acting as though fully aware
of the serious nature of what had hap
pened.
The dog was one of two which Gillen
had trained to herd horses and cattle.
Realizing that prompt assistance must
be obtained, If the slight chance he had
of surviving was TO be made the most
Of. Gillen told the dog TO Ego to Nc
| Vey's. ranch" This was the nearest