The Portland daily press., 1896-07-23
WHO FIRED II !?
WestbrOOk J Has Still Another Sen
satiOn.
'SPRINNY, WALLACE SHOT LAST
EVENING.

Held Up According to His Story by the
Same Two Men Who Waylaid Him
Monday Night-His Assailants Ran and
He Fired at Them-If His Tale is true
ces Seem to Corroborate Wallace's YER
sion of the Affair.
Westbrook has another sensation.
1t is not a murder or an assassination
but it might have tbeen had the bullet
which was fred into VIM. Wallace found
a more vital lodging place. AS 1t. was,
the wound is flesh one, in the calf of
the leg, and the only possible danger
against complete recovery for Wallace, is
| modification, which sometimes occurs
in a wound of this character. Who
fred the shot is mystery and in the
hurried examination which was made
last night and after dark, it was impos-
ST BILE to uncover any circumstances which
mystery.
PRESS readers will recall reading in
yesterday mornings edition an account
of how William Il. Wallace had stated
the he had been 'held up" and roughly
| handled on Riverside street, at West
~ rook, Monday night. This young man,
20 years old, is the same one who is the
principal actor in the second act of this
IMMATURE TRAGEDY.
and now lies on his bed with painful
fieshS wound In the calf of the leg. The
gentleman is more famlliarly known by
t he name of "Pinuy" Wallace and If all
his accounts are true his brief life has
been full Of dramatic incidents. A bout a
year ago he was un nceremoniously
tumbled into a reservoir. and rumor says
his entirely honorable attentions to a
fair lady had something to do with this
experience. Monday night. as stated,
he was "hsld up' by two men. searched
and small piece of tobacco stolen from
him, but the hiehwaymen failed to Sc
cure Is cents in silver he had carefully
secreted on his person. Now, according
to his story, these same two men again
| held him up and one of them
SHOT HIM.
| The following is the sale as he tells it,
briefly stated:
"When was held up on Monday night
and finally got away, s'sassed the m en-
considerably from a safe distance. They
yelled at me that would hear from them
| later and they would be revenged on
me. On account of these threats
thought better be in sha pc to defend
myself, and SO 1 went to Robert Dubeck
and borrowed his pistol. (The pistol is
BRITISH bulldog. 80 oalibre. Tonight
came home from Riverton where work
and went to call on a young lady friend.
started to go home and was going
down Riverside street, through the
woods, when suddenly one of the same
men who assaulted me the night before.
jumped up in front Of me.
He was the larger one Of the two,
dressed in dark clothes and with about a
week g growth of beard. He grabbed me
and walked along the.road with me for
some distance demanding to know what
I meant by sassing them when saw the
other man orouching in the brush. He
leaped to his feet and called out to his
pal: Do you want any hslp9'
"The latter had no chance to reply,
when the smaller man, who wore light
clothes and derby hat. spulled revolver
and fred ut me. felt a deadly pain In
my leg and stumbled. Then both tho
men ran. AS soon as could I recovered
myself
PULLED MY REVOLVER
and fred at the retreating men. They
dashed into the underbruzh, but had not
got far when I fred. think I hit one
of them for heard him cry out 'Ohl'
could only FIRE two shots as there were
but two cartridges In the revolver had
borrowed of Bert Dubeck.
"The pain In my leg now began to be
intense and felt very faint from the loss
Of blood. I yelled for help and limbe
along in the direction of Gilbert Grants
house, which was nearest to the spot
where I was shot. I finally made Mr..
Grant hear my calls and he came out in
his night shirt helped me into his house
where he and his wife were very kind to
me was finally sent home and DR..
Barrett called and he came and dressed
my wound"
MR.. GILBERT GRANT,
who took Wallace into his house, was
seen by PRESS man and he oorroborat-
ed Wallace's story as far as the latter part
was concerned. He said he had un-
dressed and was lying on the lounge