The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-02
"e "ece"sed's AssaiIant Supposed
20 he Felix Demonthier-ue
Jumps I'm the Lake.

asked him where he was going and i'm
mediately began to shoot.
| Mr., Sheldon fell to the sidewalk though
he retained consciousness, when severa
people in the neighborhood. DR.. A. A
Anderson first, came running to the
spot. He then and ai erward declared
that though it was dusk he recognized
Felix Demonthier as his assailant.
No statement was signed by Mr.. Shell
den, before his death, but he told one o
his friends that Felix came up in front oil
him and asked how he was going to set
tie the case and the deceased answered
that he had already commenced the set
Element before the justice, whereupon
the shots we're fired. Ii is stated that
Mr.. Sheldon was conscious most OF the
time and that the physicians had hopes
OF his recovery until shortly before l
O'Clock, from which time he began to
sink rapidly and died shortly after that
| hour.
From all accounts Demonthier, as soon
az he had done the shooting, ran to the
bridge, out on it to the second span,
climbed over the railing and Jumped into
the lake. The lake was dragged for sew
eral hours without any trace OF the miss
log man being found. The officers visited
his house and found he had not been
there since the noon hour.
The wounded man was taken to his
home, only a block and half away,
under the care OF DR.. Jones, and Drs.
Wheeler, Scallon and CAESAR were hastily
summoned. They found the wounds to
be four One scalp wound on the back
OF the head, one at the point OF the jaw.
which had fractured it, one in the upper
part OF one of the lower limbs and the
waist, and one entering the neck on the
left side and evidently running down
ward. The first three wounds, without
the latter, would not be considered dan
gerous. At midnight the physicians re-
ported the patient little easier thought
their efforts so far had not located the
bullet in the shoulder. At l o'clock,
however, the change had come.
Although three or four persons saw a
man running from the scene OF the shoot
ing and heard or saw the splash when he
jumped from the bridge, yet there was
considered to be doubt about whether
the lake got the wouldbe murderer or
not. None OF those who saw any part OF
the occurrence recognized Demonthier
and the officers could find no one to alb
solutely say they saw him jump from
the bridge.
Events of the past few days point to
the Frenchman and supplied him with a
motive. One night last week, Demon
thier or Felix, as he was Familiarity called
by everyone in Houghton, who was in
Mr.. Sheldens employ at the time, drove
the latter to the Onlgaming club house,
where dinner party was gwen. Felix
was told To be at the club house at half
past ten and was there on time. After
waiting some time he put the team in
the shed and went into the kitchen OF
the house to keep warm. When Mr..
Sheldon came out he missed the man and
finding him in the house began giving
him verbal shaking up which the
Frenchman finally resented and out by
the stables went for his employer in such
q vigorous manner that Mr.. Sheldon
since has been laid up from the effects.
Yesterday Felix was arrested on COM
nla,nt of Mr.. Sheldon and his trial was to
havecome off today. tits supposed that,
crazed by his arrest and from brooding
over the affair OF last week, which caused
il, he lay in wait to do the bloody des1
he 40 well succeeded in and then threw
himself off the bridge.
For an affair that happened on one oil
the principal streets, at so early an hour'
there were n surprising number oil con-
minors. The officers were kept busy
looking up the different stories. After
they had become satisfied that their man
had really made way with himself they
had 10 run down a story that Demon
their had been seen in Hancock, after the
shooting.
News of the affair spread through the
two towns like wildfre and the Houghton
end of the bridge was. alive with people
n, n very short time after the shooting.
People fingered there until a late nour'
talking over the tragedy and waiting
for news from the Sheldon house, just up
rho hill The lake was dragged until a
late hour. but no trace OF even hat, or
other garment, was found
Il now appears that a man named bo-
dette. who was crossing the bridge ron
Hancock. heard the shots and Afterwards
saw n man run along the bridge 20
about the second span and then climb
over the railing and jump into the lake
and a,terward saw the body rise to the
surface. but he did not recognize VINO 10
was; the water has here depth OF ABOUT
twenty feet and the people are still drag
cling for the body. Felix had been WORK
inc for Mr.. Sheldon Z r thelast i've year,
and leaves a wife and three children.
Mr. Carl Sheldon was last evening at