The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-03
GREAT FALLS MAN DOES COME
PINKERTON WORK.
GETS SHOT IN The BREAST
Fills Supposed kidnaper Up On Booze
While He Drinks Cold
Tea.

Great Falls, Dec. Fired Dolkins,
a would-be dime novel detective,
thought Saturday night he had found
the notorious Pat Grove. Dolkins,
and his partner, Fred Loertscher, tried
to fill the supposed Grove full of whis-
key, while they drank cold tea. EARLY
| this morning Dolkins aroused a doctor
at Cascade and asked prompt atten-
ton. He showed a bullet wound in
his breast which was bleeding pro-
fusely, and claimed that while at
tempting to capture Grove the latter
had shot him. While the doctor was
caring for the wounded man Deputy
Sheriff Walter Gorham organized a
posse to capture the assailant.
The shooting occurred about 5 a.
m. The injured man aroused the doc
tor a few minutes later. About day
light the posse surrounded ~Tintinger's
barn and ordered two men who had
been sleeping there to come forth,
The sleepy occupants came out
promptly with their arms held up.
They were recognized at once as Har-
-ry Mcbride, recently released from the
county Jail at Great Falls after serv-
ing a sentence of two months for
larceny, and Pat Cooper, a hard work
ing farm hand. Dolkins identified Nc.
Bride as the man who shot him and
said his name is not Mcbride, but
Grove. The officers picked up half
a dozen other men who might have
been remotely concerned in the affair
and all came to Great Falls this after.
Don. Dolkins was taken to Column
bus hospital and the prisoners went
to the county Jail. There, after hours
OF investigation. the following &C
count Of the affair was gathered:
Dolkins is well educated, about "a
years of age, and the son of wealthy
parents living in Mapleton, Iowa. He
has been in the west several years,
and for four weeks has been employ
ed on the farm of Jack Taylor near
Cascade. On Saturday Dolkins pre-
tended to recognize Mcbride as Pat
Grove and asked a deputy sheriff to
arrest the man. This was refused
and Dolkins decided to make the cap
ture with the help of his chum, Loert-
scher. Dolkins bought a quart of cold
tea at the hotel and took it to a sa-
loon and gave it to the bartender. He
told the bartender to put the tea in a
whiskey bottle and serve it to him and
Loertscher when they called for
drinks. Later the two amateur de-
ectives met Mcbride and steered him
to the saloon. They bought many
drinks, Mcbride drinking whiskey, the
other two drinking the tea.
During the evening the amateur de-
tectives had a smallsized row with a
railroad laborer and drove him to the
work train bunk car. When the ar
rests were made today this %railroader
was arrested as the possible as~sailant,
but released on the unanimous testi~
mony of his fellow workmen that he
was in the a when the shooting took
place.
Mcbride left the two men and went
to the barn about II o'clock. Loert-
scher also went to bed. No one heard
any shooting, but at sos a. m. Dol
kins showed up with the wound.
declared he had been tracking Nc
Bride near the depot, when Mcbride
suddenly confronted him, placed a re-
volver at his breast and fired. Dol
kins says he fell and while lying on
the ground Mcbride came back and
said: 81 would give you another, but
l think that will fix you" Then he
disappeared. The doctor who attended
Dolkins found a 32-caliber revolver
empty on the wounded man. One of
the posse picked up an empty 3S-cali-
Der cartridge at the point where Dol
kins says he was shot. Mcbride was
unarmed when arrested. The doctor
says Dolkins' wound was made by a
3S ball. After the investigation here
local officers believe the wounded man
shot himself, but cannot account for
the cartridge of larger size found, nor
for the large wound. The gun was