The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-21
WILL LOSE HIS RIGHT LEG
James Mcbride Accidentally Shot A.
ter Long Chase Given to
Policeman Hayden.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

Mcbride, who is only "a years of age,
will have to go through the rest OF
his life a cripple. The officer was
M. L. Hayden. and the cause of Nc.
Brides crippled condition is a re-
volver shot he received in the right
leg, several inches above the knee.
For a number of nights complaints
have been made to the police by PEG
pie in the residence portions of the
north and south sides concerning men
providing about and peering into win
dows and acting IN a manner c~alculat.
ed to brighten the inmates of houses
especially women and children. About
$3.50 O'Clock last night Officer Hayden
vas at the corner of Minnesota avenue
and Twenty-eighth street and hap
pening to look south on Twenty-eighth
saw a man standing in front of a small
frame building in First avenue, south,
between Twenty-seventh and Twenty.
eighth streets. The man peered
SouI1Ouo1y 1ulO IAC W1uuO" anu dllCl-
nately walked back and forth in front
of the house, stopping at the gate,
as though undecided whether to en-
ter. On the opposite side of the ave-
u a saddle horse vas tied to a post
and to the officer it appeared that the
man was either planning to make
way with the horse or enter the
house, his actions being such as to
arouse suspicion. After watching him
for a few minutes the policeman
started to walk diagonally across the
vacant lot at the corner of Twenty
eighth street and First venue, south,
to get a better look at the man and
if possible learn what he was trying
to do.
At about the same instant a man
was seen to approach from the west
on the avenu and as soon as the one
in front Of the building saw him
come he ran, going east in the ave.
Il The officer gave pursuit and
when he reached the corner of Twen-
ty- seventh street saw a man hiding
behind the corner of the wagonshop
that stands there. Believing him to
be Officer Dulin, whom he thought to
be in that neighborhood, he called
Dulin's name several times, at the
same time informing him that the
man whom he had see was running
down Twe~nty-seventh street. Re-
ceiving no reply, Mr.. Hayden started
toward the supposed officer and when
within a few feet of him the man left
the corner and proceeded to run.
Hayden caught him and saw it was
someone else and asked him if he
knew the One running down Twenty
seventh street. Receiving a negative
reply, he released the man and took
after the other, repeatedly calling on
him to stop.
Instead of complying with the or
der, the man ran all the faster and
continued down toward the fiat, with
the policeman in pursuit. The chase
was maintained until the bridge
across the ditch on the south side of
town was reached, when the man in
the lead turned toward the east and
ran several blocks. Next he turned
north onto Second avenue, south, and
then west to Twenty-seventh street.
Intending to head him off, the officer
ran through a yard and out of a gate
in Twenty-seventh street, where he
overlook the other man and grabbed
him by the coat collar. The man
wrenched himself free and started to
run across the street, jumping over a
fence made of a scantling and used
as a guard for the park on the edge
of the street. He fell and in his haste
to catch him, the officer also Jumped
over and fell on top of the man.
The policeman had his revolver.
cooked, in his hand and as he fell
his head struck the PROSTATE man
about the hip. AS he was carrying his
pistol low by his side, the muzzle of
it touched the right leg of the man
underneath. The jar caused the Of
ficer's hand to press onto the trigger
and the weapon exploded. Instantly
the man under him told the officer
that he was shot and Mr.. Hayden
him up and carried him across
the street, where he placed him onto
the sidewalk.
The shot caused a number of per-
sons to appear and while he remained
with the man Officer Hayden asked
] bystander to go for the ambulance.
This arrived and the man was taken
o the hospital and Drs. Rinehart and
lindsey summoned. It was