The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-13
SHOT IN THE BACK
Ed WEIGH Is Lying at the Hospital in
a Critical Condition.
BUT HE MAY PULL THROUGH
He and Sam Graves Had a Quarrel
and Graves Drew His Re-
volver and Fired-Craves
IL In jail.

Ed. WEIGH is IN St. AIMS hospital will
3S-calibre bullet IN his back. and Sa
Graves IL in the city Jail for shooting him.
Inc deed was done in the coward back
or the Merrimac boarding house on Front
street yesterday afternoon about 5:3.
O'Clock.
WEIGH Is smelter man and Graves has
been hostler for M. j. Louth, the pro-
prietor of the Merrimac house for about
Is months. A4
Yesterday morning Graves asked for
the loan Of a horse and buggy to GO and
look Tor poles. He and WEIGH went
away and were gone nearly all day.
When they returned tho horse was COW
cred with foam aud had every appearances
OF having been driven hard. 7,gff
WEIGH went to his room and went to
bed and Graves began his usual work.
Later WEIGH woke up aud both ne and
Graves joined a congenial crowd who
were lying in pile of hay in shed by
by the barn. While there they discussed
quarrel that they had had during the
day, but the men smoothed 1t over and
got them to shake hands. WEIGH went
after can of beer, and it was supposed
the trouble was all over. Graves went
into the house and returned with a reyol.
with the crowd and reopened the quarrel.
which as near as can be learned, was over
money which he said WEIGH had taken
from him. They called each other names
and Graves pulled the gun and pointed it
at WEIGH, who lodged through q hole in
the side of the shed where a board
was on. and stepped into the barn. The
other fellows about there also got into the
corners and as much out of the way as
possible. " =
Graves jumped out of the door and had
WEIGH cornered in the barn. WEIGH
slipped back into the shed and ran to the
door near which Graves was standing,
and closed with him, hitting him and
knocking him against the side of the
shed. Then he turned and ran up a
manure heap about five feet high against
q fence, trying 10 escape. just as Welch |
was on top of the heap Graves fired and |
Welch fell forward on his face and hands |
to the ground.
He was carried into the house and Drs.
81. Jean and Douglas called. The bullet |
column. The physicians had the wounded |
man taken to the. hospital, where they
made further examin alton to find the |
ball, but they were unsuccessful. IL had /
entered the body nearly straight and cut |
the nerves on one side where they leave
the spine to spread out through the lower
limbs. The ball was not followed further
than that and its course is uncertain.
Welch's chances for life are about even
with those for his death. He is a very
powerful man physically and inclined to
be quarrelsome when in liquor. He is
Graves is well known in
Montana. He came out with the Northern
Pacific railroad, and has been in Deer
Lodge county for about 10 years. !. =
Ihe eye-witnesses 10 the shooting were
Fat Riley, Frank O'Neil, Hugh Boyle, Dan
Hogan and Frank Hummill, and Mrs.
Louth, who was in an adjoining lot.
Pat Riley and another man disarmed
srayes. who made no effort to escape. He
wanted the gun again later on to shoot
NJ j. Louth. because tie upbraided him for
shooting WEIGH. Officers Mayhew and
McMasters arrested Graves.