The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-01
.AnzAccomplice Knocked Up the Gun
and DETECTED the Bullet.
MADE ASSAULT ON The GUARD
Cut His Clothing, But Wound Did Not
Reach Skin Story Was Be!lcy-
ed at First, But Officers
Now Think senti.
nelsDeceived
Himself. ttsS55855 49,

,e Associated Pressl

(Bs Associated 3Press.)
CANTON, OHIO, Sept. So.-Ihe So..--.I.I othceIs
and men Of Company G, of the Fourteenth
United States Infantry, on duty at West
Lawn Cemetery guarding the reass;f7 resting g;
place Of President Mckinley, worked woSe1E
diligently to-day invest tigating the strange
story. ii which Private Depfend who was
on duty at the top of the vault Sund'aS'
night, figured so prominently.
3 THE STORY.
It is to the effect that the guard on
duty on top of the vault fired a shot a E
one man. who refused to heed his chal-
3 lenge. that tine shot was diverted by a an. n
other man who appeared from another
direction, and that an effort was made to.
stab the guard -
Private Deprend was on guard duty on
top of the vaultsat a point commanding
the entrance below and the approach from
the rear, and the man approached from
the rear. Shortly before 1880 he saw Wha t
g he took to be the race Of q man peerlng
from behind a tree about forty feet from
his post. He watched it for twenty min
utes, he says, and at 7:45 saw the man:
hurry 10 a tree ten feet nearer. He chal-.
Iengeet the man to halt, but was not
needed, and the fellow approached nearer.
FIRED TO KILL.
Deprend leveled his gun and aimed to
shoot or effect but just at that instant
another man who came toward him from
the opposite side caught the gun, threw it
lip, and the bullet was spent in the air.
Ibis same man struck Deprend on the
right side OF the abdomen with a knife
cr other Sharp weapon, cutting an II = =
cash in his zoVercoat an inch and a half
long each way, and a smaller one in his
blouse.
The flesh was not broken, but was
bruised under the cuts in the clothing.
Deprerd in the struggle fell and rolled
down the side of the vault Lieut. Ash
Il bridge, officer 6 It he day, was in front of
z the vault. and rushed to the, top on hear
+ ing the shot, but the men made good: their
S escape. All members of the company on.
hearing the shot hurried to the vault
and besides searching the cemetery, the
guard was increased.
The same reticence, Imposed by military
E regulations, which prevented the officers
and men from making detailed state
ments concerning the incidents last night
was operative to-day. From interviews
with all the commissioned officers, several
) non-commissioned officers and a number
OF privates, the following was gathered:
DISCREDIT5 STORY.
All the commissioned officers and the
members of the company in general ac-
cepted fully the story related by Private
tDeprend last hight; they really believed
that 5lhe3 3pToWlers Were .apOut5 lne Naul1 ~ :
with no good purpose. To-day only one
of the commissioned officers adhered %
the belief that an attempt had been made
upon the sentinel for ghoulish pucDoses.
All the men who were seen expires sd the
belief that Private Depren6 sactei in g.od
faith and that he. related only what he
believed to be the real circumstances.
With the captain and others he went over
the details of the whole affair at least a
dozen times, and it is said he did nor
vary in a matter of Importance.
a particular inquiry was made as TO his
sobriety at the time, and it is said that i