The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-26
CRIME AND TROUBLE
A 16-Year-Old Boy Shoots a Man
and E:cap9S.
STOLEN GOODS IN A CAVE
Two Teams Run Away and IL Is
Supposed hey Are Travelling
Yet-An Injured Black
smiths Assistant.
STOLEN GOODS IN A CAVE
Special Correspondence of the STANDARD.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Feb. -l.-Wiliam Webster.
the 16-year-old son of Alien Webster of
this place, shot at Henry Coots this af-
ternoon with a 44-cah5er rcv Diver, the
bullet striking Coots in the leg. Mr..
Webster tried to prevent the shooting,
and as young Webster was trying to
finish Coots with another shot he threw
an AK at him and then ran after him
with a shovel. Young Webster tried to
shoot his father also, but the revolver
did not work, which saved the old gem
tleman's life. Coots was working for
Webster, who sent him after a wagon
which young Webster mad borrowed.
Young Webster followed him home and
tried to end his life. Young Webster is
vicious lad who had been driven from
his home and was patching with a
brother in an old cabin about a block
from his fathers house. The bullet
which struck Coots went through the
neshy part of his thigh, making a very
ragged and painful wound, but not
serious one
Sheriff Caldwell found that Webster
had escaped on horseback, and he start
ed in pursuit, being about 80 minutes
behind the young man. Late this even
ing a courier arrived in Bozeman from
the West Gallatin, about IL miles west
of Bozeman, for two more deputies, as
Webster had left his horse and taken to
the brush afoot along the river. The
sheriff and a number of men were in
hot pursuit, going down through the
brush along the river on foot. when last
heard from late this evening.
This afternoon two young lads called
at the store of John w. Tilton, who was
robbed a few weeks ago by some one
who carried off wagon load Of grocer
les, and reported that, while hunting
rabbits in the foothills near Bozeman,
on Saturday afternoon, they had found
some of the stolen groceries hidden in
cave. The sheriff and his deputies
were off after young Webster, the
Would-be murderer, and could not be
had, and two of Mr.. Tiltons clerks
went at once with the boys to the cave.
When they arrived, however 1t was
empty. From the tracks outside they
could see where men had brought up
horses and dragged sacks of sugar and
other of the stolen property to the
mouth of the cave; they had then pack
ed ii on the horses and gone off to the
north over the foothills. Had the boys
reported their find at once, it might
have resulted in the capture of the |
guilty parties, while as it is, this gives |
the officers no new clew as TO who the |
thieves are.
The two hunters who were caught |
killing beavers by Game Warden |
Keown last week have both been tried |
and sentenced to two months in the |
county Jail. They had killed II beav-
ers and two otter and were both caught |
so beautifully by Mr.. Keown that they |
pleaded guilty without standing trial. |
A little more of this work on the part |
of Gallatin county's game warden will
stop poaching in this county.
George Lane was working with his
father In Brockaway's blacksmith shop
here Monday when he met with a very
painful accident. He and his father
were striking" together, using heavy
sledge hammers when his fathers ham,
mer flew off the anvil and. rebdunding.
struck young Lane on the forehead
with such force as to split his head
open clear to the bone. DR.. Howard was
called. 1t required four stitches TO sew
up the wound.
There was quite an exciting runaway.
or rather a double runaway, on Main
street this morning, when a horse on !
Upper Main street pulled down the post
TO which he was hitched and dashed
the length of the street with the post
dangling from his halter strap. Atlas
Badgley was standing In front of Hold
sons marble works and, seeing the
iIoiS Coihihs' got MS team Dy tne Dfl- |
1les and turned them up close TO the |
so that the runaway animal
should not dash into them. The single |
horse did swerve little to one side
when he reached them, but this threw
he dragging post over against them,
and they broke from Mr.. Badgley, |
threw him down and ran up Main
street on a gallop. Mr. Badgley was
struck by the bobsled to which the ami
mails were attached and badly bruised |
} doctor having to be called TO fix him
up. Later in the day he was able to go
nome alone. Neither Of the runaways
nave been heard from since, and both
ire undoubtedly going yet.