, 1906-08-29
ANDREW REID ASSAULTED AT
DOOR OF HIS APARTMENTS
BY FORMER EMPLoYE
THIS MORNING.
Receives Wound on Right Breast Nine
Inches Long Extending to Abdo-
men, But Vital organs Not Reach
ed-Assailant, j. w. Mcbride, Ar
rested and Sent to County Jail to
Await Extent of Victims Injury.

Andrew Reld, proprietor oil the WyO-
ming saloon and Albany restaurant, on
First street, was murderously assault
his apartments in the rear of the res
taurant building by J.. w. Mcbride,
formerly a bartender at the Wyoming
and for the past month employed in the
country on a ranch. Mcbride was ap-
pretended by the officers and is now
in the county jail. County Attorney
Downey this morning filed in Justice
Grants court an information against
him charging him with assault to
kill.
Has an Ugly Wound.
Reid was dressing in his room at the
time Mcbride appeared at the door
of the apartments. He could not see
the man when he first appeared, but
Mrs. Reid answered his knock and
tried to get him to go away. Mcbride
retaliated by demanding some money
he claimed Reid owed him and calling
Mrs. Reid some vile names. Mr.. Reid
appeared at this point in his shirt
sleeves and demonstrated with Nc
Bride. The latter continued to talk
in a loud and angry voice, and when
Reid started toward him, Mcbride
used the knife he held in his hand,
slashing the proprietor down the right
hraaSt nalyinU q unun1 nina iprhnc
long and severing the muscles cover
ing the chest and the abdomen. DR.. j.
A. Ballard had the man taken to his
office in the Interstate Townsite build
ing, where the wound was dressed, Mr..
Reid later being taken to his home
and put to bed.
Had Threatened Former Employer.
Mcbride had been in trouble in July,
along about the beginning of the fourth
week having been in a row in the
saloon, when complaint was made
against his conduct. Mr.. Downey in
vestigated the matter at the time and
warned the bartender that his arrest
would follow if he did not behave him
self. On the 23d of that month he re-
signed his position at the Wyoming
saloon and vent to the country, where
he spent some time in the hay fields.
Mcbride is a single man and is said
to be a quiet sort of fellow when not
drinking. 1t is in his sprees that he
becomes abusive and makes threats
that he does not always carry out.
Had Revolver in His Pocket.
1t is said that Mcbride ard a com
panion were drinking last night and
that Mcbride at that time threatened
to get even" with somebody 'if he
had to shoot the top of his head off"
Who this Somebody" was is not clear,
but some presume it to have been
Reid. He was at a Grand avenue sa.
loon with a man whose name is given
as Brown, when the latter became in
volved and received several blows in
the face after he had drawn a spittoon
on an inmate of the place. He was
treated by DR.. McCollum in the night,
having a u over his right eye, on
his right cheek Inc his upper lip.
After he had been treated by the sur
geon he is said to have gone to the
country. From some sources it is stat
ed that Brown was the aggressor, start
ing in to whip the other man with a
spittoon. No arrests have been made
in this case.
Reid's Condition Serious.
A reporter for The Republican saw
Mrs. Reid this afternoon, when she
said her husband was resting as COM
fortably as could be expected under the
distressing circumstances. The knife
made a wound nine inches long and it
spread to almost the width of ones
hand by the swelling, requiring a o
siderable time to sew up the gaping
wound and render the victim comfort
able. Blood flowed freely and it was
some time before its flow could be
stopped. Mcbride will be held until
the extent of the wound can be de-
termined before being arraigned. He
is now charged with assault to commit
murder, and is in the county Jail.
Brown is not seriously injured.
CAPTAIN HEAVEY is