Warren sheaf., 1897-07-15
move off slowly, and seeing that Miller

move off slowly, and seeing that Miller
intended to shoot him, i called out:
Don't shoot him; let him go, the
man meanwhile running off down the
sidewalk. As this happened the three,
men left at the bridge entered the street
on full run. Stiles, as he is called, met
the man whom Miller had permitted to
go, and commanded him to stop, threat
| ening to shoot him if he did not 1
| shouted to Stiles to let the man go and
not to shoot him, whereupon Stiles and
the man on the buckskin horse passed
on up the street 50 or 100 yards south oi
the bank, Jim stopping in front Of the
bank with me. A.
| Now, to return to the man who first
discovered what was going on in the
bank. told him to get off the street,
which he did. I have learned since that
the gentleman was DR.. Wheeler, and the
other gentleman was ]. S. Allen. Both
of them heard me call to Miller not to
shoot, and both of them could have
heard me repeat the command to Stiles
l will now return to my narrative where
I broke off by this DEPRESSION. H.
Jumping off my horse, I ran to the
bank door and told the boys to hasten
out, as the alarm was given, and I
thought the citizens were arming them
selves. Bob Younger came out, and l.,
thinking all were coming, got on my
horse and started north to the corner Of
| Bridge square, when I saw a man at
a window upstairs across the street with
a gun. To frighten him away I shot a
pane of glass out above his head, where
upon he stepped back out of sight. This
man was, think, DR.. Wheeler I then
fired into the corner of the building on
Bridge square to frighten the people
away from our horses, and they ran
around the corner out of sight. Bob
went on down the sidewalk to the stair
way, intending to get his horse at that
point. noticed that Bob was the only
one who had answered my call, so l
| again turned and ran back to the bank
and shouted to those inside:
| "For Gods sake, come out" .
Just then Miller called to me, saying
! he was shot, and looking at him, I saw
! blood running down his face. The fir
ing by this time had become general,
and as the two in the bank had not come
out, I was forced for the third time to
ride to the bank and call to them to
! come out, and this time they did so. In
the meantime Miller had been shot again,
and had fallen from his horse. jumped
! from my horse, ran to Miller to see how
badly he was hurt, and while turning
him over was shot in the left hip. I
| took Miller's pistols, remounted my
horse and rode toward Bob, who was
standing near the stairway, Jim being
| with me. ~s
At this moment Bob was shot. saw
him change his pistol from his right
hand to the left, and from the way his
right arm hung limp at his side knew
| it was broken. I called to him to come
from there, and, turning to Jim, told
| him to catch Millers horse for Bob.
This was done. Bob ran up the street,
and Jim helped him to mount then
called to Pitts to help me get Miller up
on my horse, it being my intention to
carry him before me. On lifting him up
| lay him down again, and to run up the
street out Of range, and I would take him
up behind me. then cried to the rest
OF the party to move on ahead, and they
started, Jim leading the horse that Bob
rode: Pitts ran up the street about
hundred yards, where he mounted be-
hind me, and we rode out of town on the
Dundas road.
Up to this time I did not know that
citizen had been shot, nor did I know
that any of Our party had shot with the
intention of hitting anyone. l knew that
never fired shot at anyone intending
to hit, nor did Jim. The fact is that all
the trouble was caused by quart Of
whisky which, as I learned afterwards,
one of the three men that went into the
bank had concealed, and between where
thew left us in the woods and town tiev
had drunk the most of it and were
drunk. That accounts for them not
shutting the door of the bank, and not
j when I called to them that the alarm
was given, and the peaple were arming
themselves. Had it not been for the
whisky there would not, in all probabil-
ity, have been man killed, and I can
truthfully say, had known they had
whisky I never would have gone into
the town, for with all my faults, and
| am sorry to say they were many, whisky
| drinking was not one of them, and
never had confidence in a man that he
would do the right thing or what was
expected of him when he was under the
influence of whisky.
When we got out of town the last man
| to leave the bank told me that as he
| jumped on the counter and was leaving
the bank he saw Miller lying in the
street, and at the same moment one of
| the clerks sprang up and ran toward d
desk. Thinking he was going for pis-
tol, he ordered him to stop and sit down,
| but he kept on, and as my informant
jumped from the counter he leveled his
| pistol and fired. The man fell, but how