The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-28
ATTORNEY HALL REARRESTED.
His Victim Was said to Re In "a Very Crit
teal Condition.

Attorney o. NJ. Hall was rearrested
last evening for the shooting of Car
penter John kaempfer about a week
ago. @. j. Weidman, a friend of Kamp-
fer. called at the county attorneys Of
nee yesterday afternoon and stated that
kaempfer was I'm a critical condition.
and not expected to live. 1t was stated
that instead of being only slightly in
jured. as was at first supposed, the at
tending physician had said one of
kaempfer's lungs had become affected
from the wound, and hat as a conse-
quence of the serious nature of the in
jury there was little hope of saving the
mans life. On the strength of these
representations Lawyer Hall was or
dered rearrested. The arrest was made
on the original warrant. charging Hall
Will assault In the second degree, and
Justice of the Peace Trap ordered him
committed to Jail without bail. Attor-
ney Hall was greatly wrought up over
being denied bail. and denounced the
treatment he received in unmeasured
terms. as the statutes do not provide
that a man can be refused bail unless he
il charged with murder In the first de-
gree. He sent for Attorney Coombs.
and Mt 10 O'Clock habeas corpus pro-
ceedings were begun i'm Judge Clancy's
court to secure his release.
Judge Clancy waited up till nearly
midnight while an effort was made to
find "A representative of the county at
torney's office. Deputy Yancey was the
only one who could be found. and as he
could not come. the case was allowed
to go over until this morning. and MIR.
Hall was Obliged To spend the night I'm
Jail.
During the day three physicians saw
Kaempfer. and one of them consid-
cred him in any immediate danger. al
though two of them pronounced him Sc
riously III.
Or. Loebinger visited Kaempfer at
the solicitation OF the ~lstter's friends.
As he was I'm the hands of another ply
stefan he could not remove the band
ages from the wound. but examined
him as well as he could without. and
came tn the conclusion Kaempfer was
suffering from pleurisy or bronchitis
and catarrh OF the lung. He did not
think the man would die. but SAID he
was very low. In the evening about
. o'clock Deputy County Attorney Yam
cey, accompanied by County Physician
Sheerin. visited kaempfer. DIR. Sheer
i'm thought he might be suffering from
poisoning as the result of the bullet
wound. He was said to be unconscious
and i'm a very low state. but DIR. Sheer
in did not think ne would die.
DIR. Weyerhorst. who has been at
tending Kaempfer since he was shot.
made the following statement last even
Il visited Kaempfer yesterday morn
ing as usual. and found him suffering
from a touch OF pleurisy, which he
brought on by sleeping with his window
open. He. however, was not serious.
and l gave him the necessary treat
ment. When ! saw by an evening paper
that he was not expected to live I was
astonished. and at $50 ! went to see
him. found him sitting up i'm bed
reading the article in the evening paper
which described his condition as being
precarious, and smiling. ] TOOK his tenn
perature and pulse. and found them 10
be normal. His pleurisy had disap-
peared. The man cannot be suffering
from any poisoning. as the bullet is not
in him. and the wound is healed"
The Eaempfer family is i'm rather
Strengthened circumstances, and is be-
ing helped by the county.