Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
A SERIOUS SHOOTING ARRAY
Harry Crow Shoots James Morgan in
the Spime-BOth Are Rail
road Men.
1t Was the Result of Quarrel on
the Day Prpvious-The Wound
ed Man May Die.

A shooting ARRAY which may have a
fatal termination, occurred last Sunday
on the West Side railroad bridge. The
facts of the affair are about as follows:
Harry Grow, a young man about 20
years Of age, employed in the machine
shops of the Great Northern railroad,
had some difficulty with a man named
James Morgan, who Is also a railroad
man, in a West Side resort last Saturday.
Both men had been drinking some but
we're not considered to be under the in
fiuence of liquor to any perceptible de-
gree. The two men afterwards met
again in front of A saloon on this side of
the river later in the evening and the
quarrel was renewed with the result that
Morgan, who is a larger and older man
than Grow, knocked the latter down
after a scrap in which he got much the
best of it. Grow then went to his room
on the West Side aud was advised by
alleged friends to arm himself as Morgan,
and a friend of Morgan's, had been heard
to threaten him with further violence.
lie acted on this advice by going over
the river Sunday morning and purchas-
ing a cheap SO caliber revolver at the
store of Sam Herskovitz. The revolver
had three cartridges in it. Two of these
he shot off in testing the revolver at the
river bank and then started for the West
Side, across the railroad bridge. About
half way across he met Morgan and the
quarrel was renewed once more between
the men. Morgan states that Crow
reached for his revolver and that he
knocked hin, down before ne had a
chance to shoot. Crow declares that
Morgan attacked him again on the
bridge after he had been warned
by him that he wanted no further trou-
bic with him, and that he was armed in
} elf-defense. Both men agree that after
Crow was knocked down and was lying
stretched across the stringers Crow
pulled his gun and fired. The ball
, struck Morgan IN the back, entering the
> backbone and wounding the spinal cord.
Morgan fell on the bridge and Grow
started for the West side on the run, but
afterwards changed his mind evidently
and turned back. lie net a couple Of
> men coming across the bridge and told
= them that he wanted to give himself up
= to an officer. The men went with him
across the river and near the beer hall
corner encountered Officer Hamilton.
b Grow stepped up to the officer and told
! him that he had just shot a mar and
o wanted to give himself up to the police,
p The officer at first thought he was joking,
. but. as the other two men confirmed the
= story, he took him to the city Jail.
Meantime Morgan had been found 10y
l. some of his friends and carried &c
v Columbus hospital, While he was lying
J on the bridge be had taken an envelope
: from his pocket and written on it the
name of his assailant and the fact that
he had been shot by him, evidently
q thinking that he might die before be
, could tell his story. Afterwards be
'" made a deposition giving in detail his
h version of the trouble and subsequent
is shooting, claimingit was premeditated. /
is also stated that witnesses have beer
found who heard Grow threaten to til
II Morgan full of lead as soon as he me
him. Drs. Gelsthorpe, Ladd, Sweat anC
a Adams were called to attend the wound
10 ed man and after probing found and 10.
=, Gated the bullet. 1t was imbedded If
the spine and a portion of the epina
'e cord was cut. Tho result of course was
d partial paralysis that will undoubtedly
# continue and death may result. Th'
doctors cay that he may recover, but re
Il gard the wound as a very dangerous on,
and the chances against the mans life.
it Harry Grow, the young man who die
" tie shooting, has hitherto enjoyed
good character. The men he worked
10 With say he was steady and has beer
n supporting IA widowed mother in TIT
east, sending ner IA generous portion OF
his earnings every month. He has Sc
cured the services Of Largent a Huntoor
" to defend him. and his attorneys while
declining to talk about the case say thai
y when his story is told in court in will be
proven that the fatal shot was fired IL
self defense.
10 City Detective Germ yesterday recov'
a cred the revolver in the river whert
Crow told him he had thrown it. Il
, was lying in about three feet of water
The prisoner WAS taken before Judge
Hawkins yesterday morning and waIveC
reading the complaint. The eNamin.
IL alton Was postponed to see what the re
suit Of the wound might be and viii no
It come of for about ten days unless TIN
victim Of his bullet should die befor,
= that time,