, 1904-04-07
SHOT HIS COMPANION TWICE
Joe McRoberts Puts Two Balls Into the
Body Of His Travelling Companion, L.
O. Wilson. Which May Result Fatally
No P%rovocation.

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ranch, on Lake creek, for a doc
tor, saying that a young man had
just crawled in to the ranch very
badly wounded. DR.. Price res
pended to the call, as did also
George Sisson, the deputy sheriff.
When they arrived there they
found that the young man had two
bullet wounds in his body, both
having been fred into him from
behind. One of the them entered
on the right of the back bone,
just above the right kidney, and
ranging downward, came out of
the bowels little below the nav
ell, making a very-probably ia
tal-wound. The other shot took
effect in the fieshy part of one of
the thighs.
After a careful examination DR..
Price said there was no hope for
: the man, made him as comforta-
BILE as possible and came back to
town. The young man told the
following story:
my name is l.. G.. Wilson. /
am % years of age. l have been
at Hanna in the mines. Myself
and Joseph McRoberts came from
Hanna aid started to walk from
there, yesterday, morning intend
ing to 90 to Encampment. Nc
Roberts, who had been gambling
in Hanna, had lost all of his mon
ey and was strapped. l have $50.
| also hal Il 80 Cal. Smith &
Wessop revolver which | carried
in a belt buckled around me. We
overlook a couple of teams loaded
with coal and asked them for a
ride. They said they were too
heavily loaded to take any body
but if we would wait until they
got to the top of the hill We might
ride. So we did, riding several
miles. We got off about a half a
mile from this house and started
for the river to get a drink of wa
ter. When we got down in the
draw Joe asked to let him carry
my revolver a while, saying he
wanted to see if he could get a
shot at a rabbit, as he was a good
shot at a rabbit. W. had had no
quarrel or trouble of any kind, so
l handed him the gun. He fell
back behind me and l walked on.
"The first thing l knew l heard
the crack of the gun and felt the
bullets in my body. He fired all
six of the cartridges, but only two
struck me. l started to run and
he threw me the gun, saying, i
have shot you, now you shoot me;
you have the cartridges"
This happened late IN the af-
ternoon. Bleeding profusely, and
suffering terrible pain, the young
man made his way to the ranch of
C.. M. Scribner, on Lake creek,
when he told his story and medi-
cal aid was summoned.
Wilson insists that there was
no quarrel, but that he and Nc
Roberts had gotten along nicely,
else he never would have
consented to. let him have the
gun.
McRobeits, Wilson says, is on
ly 10 years of age. AS soon as
the shooting took place McRob-
erts made for the river bank and
hid himself in the willows. Dep
uty Sheriff Sisson searched for
him but could not find him.
Deputy Sheriff Sisson, accom-.
panied by City Marshall Fulker-
son, started out Monday morning
and trailed the man McRoberts
from down near the river, up to
Oberg pass. From there itturned
and went back down Pass creek
and was making for the railroad
again. AT Carl Bryant's ranch
the officers stopped and phoned to
Thomas Webber to look out for
him when the stage arrived. In
a few moments they received word
back that the prisoner was at
Walcott, having been found at
Pass creek by County Commits.
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