The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-15
TRUE WESTERN STYLE
Charlie Brown Shot and Seriously In
juFHd Homer H milton.
THE KID CAME TO TOWN
There Wasn't Much of a Quarrel
So Far AS Can Be Learned,
But the Boy Whipped Out
.- His Gun and Fired.

A boy mounted on bald-faced cayuse
rode at a gallop down Park avenue yes
terday afternoon. The horses sides were
hecked with foam. as though he had been
ridden far and fast. When the rider
wheeled him into Main street he threw
himself from the saddle as he rode up to
Chief White, who stood on the corner.
He advanced toward the officer and said /:
I've had trouble with a man up the cam
yon."
sis that SOP" asked the chief. was it
serious?"
Guess so. 1 shot Teller named Ham
ilton."
I'D you kill him?"
'Noap. He fell down, but saw him
walk afterwards"
"Where did you hit him?" asked the
chief, incredulously, for this was a new
experience to have boy tell of shooting
man as though it were an everyday &C.
currence and as coolly as can be imag-
ined.
"What did you do it for?" calculated
the officer.
''The bullet hit him in the mouth. He
beat me once and thought he was going
to do 1t again; he came for me and l shot
him."
as this the gun?' asked Chief White,
as he saw the butt of a big revolver under
the lads coat and sticking above the
waist of his pants. Without waiting for
an answer he laid hold of 1t and pulled
out a heavy 44-caliber gun.
Yep. that's it. l can give myself up,
can't I?''
well, i rather guess you can, young
man. Come along with me-"
The horse was stabbed and the boy
fnla n0ffxr faI he, 1.
name is Charles Brown, and he said he
was a son OF Frank G. Brown, who lives
about SIX miles up the Warm Springs
canyon OH a ranch, and who owns the
B.ue Eyed-Nellie NINE.
A few minutes later William Jensen
and Andrew Andersen drove into the city
with the wounded man IN a spring wagon.
His name Is Homer Hamilton. He had
bled profusely and the wagon was filled
with blood. The wounded man was ttken
to his home, 512 Elm street.
DIR. SpeIman was summoned and assis-
ted by Dr. Mckenzie an exa mination was
made. They found the bullet had made
a compound fracture of the lower jaw,
and had passed through his neck, prob
ably lodging in the muscles at the back,
although Its course Is largely matter of
conjecture. The wound, though danger
Gus, is not necessary fatal. 1t will be
scarcely possible TO probe for the ball
but after it is located an operation may
have to be performed to extract il.
The witnesses to the shooting were
William Jensen, Andrew Andersen, n. II.
Petersen and the boys father, Frank G.
Brown. Jensen and Andersen give sub
stantIally the same version of the affair.
They were hired by Hamilton to 90 up in
the timber and cut cordwood. They were
working near Browns old silver mill at
his ranch. There was no quarrel. Blown
was there talking with them. Brown, sr.,
thought they were on his land and Haml-
ton had asked him where his line was.
The boy stood near by and had a revolver
in his hand. Hamilton said, Don't pull
a gun on me, young man." and advanced
toward the boy.
"Well will and I'll use it, too" said
the boy. and suiting the action to his
words, Charlie fired in Hamilton's face.
The man fell and the boy turned towards
Peterson and said: "You
don't you move or I'll shoot you, too"
Peterson did not move. The wounded
man claimed attention and the men
looked after him, while the boy went to
the house and got a horse TO ride to town.
The weapon which he gave up to Chief
White is big, sidney revolver, stamped
on the barrel frontier bulldog" 1t is of
q cheap make and pattern and shoots a
A-caliber bullet. Charlie gives his age as
Is last February. He is bright looking
boy, but is inclined to be reckless. 1t is said
that there is not horse In the canyon
that he cannot ride and the wilder the
broncho the better he likes to ride it. The
most of his time has been spent in scour-
ing the hills, hunting and fishing.
He was not asked for his side of the case
yesterday, but this will be given when the
preliminary hearing is had. which will not
be until the extent of Hamilton's Injury
is known.
Hamilton has a wife and two children, a
boy and a girl aged and 6 years respect
lively. He is between 80 and 40 years of
age. and was formerly in the employ of
the b., \. Dc p. railroad. Recently he
purchased a right of way across Browns
fields and has been hauling wood into the
city markets.
At a late hour last night his condition
was worse rather than better. though
there seemed to BIO no immediate danger
of death.