Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-06-11

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and pulled his gun and shot He
aimed Al my head. ! threw my head to
one side and threw my right hand as
he shot The bullet struck the Sec
ond finger on my right hand between
the first aud second joints. breaking
the bone, and cut the flesh on the
thumb on the same hand. After fir
ing the first shot. he dropped or low
cred his arm. made movement for
ward with his foot and shot to the
right. That was the shot that killed
the girl. When he made that shot /
know he did not shoot at me. He
shot away from me and directly at
the women where Lily Blindert stood.
and was looking at or aiming with his
gun when he made that second shot.
The movement was positive and the
shot was aimed Then he turned
little and raised his gun and fired a
third time and at me, but did not hit
me. Then l started to walk off to-
ward home when my daughter called:
Run, papa, run. Webb is after youw
ran for my house, Webb tier me
ard my girl running beh. Webb
and urging me to run faster Arriv-
ing at my house. | jumped the fence,
leaving blood on the top board there
Is you can see by looking ont the
front door.and ran along narrow lot be-
side the house. thinking the front
door was locked and that ! would 60
in at the back door and also thinking
that perhaps he would not get over
the fence and follow me- had only
gotten steps few into the lot. however
when he arrived at the outside of the
fence and opened fire with fourth
shot which struck my thigh and
dropped me- Then l crawled along
the house calling out to my daughter:
i am all Shot to pieces When I
| fell the horrible thought came over
me that the brute would follow and
pound my brains out GA the ground
whore lay helpless and ne man was
within call Lulu was menacing him
from behind with board OF some
thing and tie turned and walked away.
Mrs. schiifman added this 10 her
husbands description Of the affair.
When the second shot was fired, in
front OF yogelsberg's, Lily Blindert
was standing beside me- She let
loose of my hand and dropped 10 the
ground, clutching my dress in her
death grip. As stopped to lift her
up Webb fired the third shot and it
would have struck me If | had not
stopped down to pick her mp. ! fol
lowed along behind the fleeing crowd
and when Webb turned away from the
fence after shooting my husband in
the thigh he met me. Placing his re-
yolver almost against my breast he
said: Il have killed the son of a
and here you are The revolver
clicked but did not 60 off.
Miss Lulu Schiffman said:
He aimed at Lily's sbead when he
killed her. His reason for shooting
her was that he was mad at the Blind
derts and he had said that he
would make them feel sorry. After
papa was shot in the garden ! ran for
the doctor When | went to pass
| Webb's house he stood inside the gate
or BY his gate He ierked out his re-
voiyer and pointing it at me said.
Don't YOU let yonr damned shadow
Ipass my place. Get back there az
quick as you can ran back and
went around over the hill for the doc
tor. All four OF the shots were fired
inside Of three minutes think. Men
with AIR Wilmot came and arrested
Webb When they took his revolver
away from him he had reloaded it. It
was self acting revolver and ! think
/ it would shoot six times but am not
certain and do not know the ealibre.
| It's very large revolver.
| Mr.. and Mrs Wierman said to the
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