The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-06
FRED SHAW USES KNIFE ON Ell.
MER RENTLY.
CUT His VICTIMS THROAT
Serious Termination Of Frolic by
Park City Men Last
Night.

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
Fred Shaw of Park City was
brought down last night by Constable
| Greenwood and placed in charge OF
the sheriff On the charge Of attempted
murder, he being accused of having
cut the throat of Elmer Bentiy dur.
ing a fight which the two had earlier
in the evening.
AS told by Mr. Greenwood, to Under
Sheriff Sayles, Shaw and Bently had
been in Williamson's saloon and had
been drinking more or less, although
neither seems to have been really in.
toxicated. About $50 o'clock Bently
left the saloon for the purpose of get
ting some lunch which the two had
decided to eat in the saloon. He re-
turned with the eatables and the two
men we're soon engaged with their
supper. While eating they became
involved in a quarrel of some sort,
the exact nature of which could not
be learned, and speedily came to
blows. They rolled onto the floor,
Shaw landing underneath. He still
held the knife he had been using to
eat his lunch with and suddenly
reached upward with the weapon,
aiming at Bently's throat. The point
of the knife entered the neck almost
Immediately under the ear and was
drawn around the neck, to a point
opposite the place Of entry, making an
ugly wound from which the blood
flowed in torrents.
Several other men were in the sa-
loon and they separated the COM
batants. Shaw vas secured and held
until the constable could be notified.
Mr.. Greenwood soon arrived and plac-
ed Shaw under arrest and held him
until a freight train from the west
passed through. On board of this he
placed his prisoner and brought him
to the city.
At the time the cutting occurred
no doctor was in the town.
Doctor Corwin was at Lau-
rel and Doctor Line at Columbus. Tel
ephone messages were sent to both,
but only Doctor Corwin could reach
the wounded man, although Doctor
Line made an attempt to do SO. He
boarded No. 4, the east bound North
ern Pacific passenger train, but the
conductor would not stop at Park
City, nor even slow up and the doc
tor was compelled to come on to Bill
ings, where he remained until this
forenoon.
At / O'Clock this afternoon a mes.
sage was received by The Gazette
that Bently was still alive and that the
doctors had been operating on him fol-
about an hour, but were not yet
through and it could not be told
whether the man would survive OF
not.
Word of the fight had been tele
phoned to the sheriff's Office, also Of
the arrest of Shaw and it was no
deemed necessary to send an Officer
from here, although some OF the PEG
pie of Park City were fearful tha'
further trouble might occur, as il
was thought that the friends of Shaw
and Bently might take the matter VI
and a general row ensue. AS a mat
ter of precaution Mr.. Sayles went tt
the freight yards to meet the con
stable, the night being dark and
stormy and it was thought that the
prisoner might attempt to make hi:
escape. Guarded by the two officer!
Shaw was escorted to the Jail, where
he now is.
Both men have been making theil
homes at Park City for several years
and until last nights ARRAY nave al
way been on friendly terms. The!
are laborers and worked together OF
the Big Ditch company's canal.
He May Recover.
Later-This afternoon a secont
| message from Park City stated tina
instead of only one Bently sustained
no fewer than three wounds, all seri
Gus. One is in the throat, which part
~ severed the jugular vein; on
across the face and the other in tn
vicinity of the heart.
The physicians are quoted as belni
hopeful of Bently's recovery.
Well Again.
The many friends of John Bloun