Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-10-18
Unfortunate Shooting Affair on Mon
day Night Causes Death Of Gott-
IIeb Elnhorn of This City.
WatChman Travis Held for nearinQ,
Coroners Jury Investi.
gates.

| anu VINO DrOke away from CIle WaCC1.
man and ran after being placed under
arrest. The last two shots were FREQ
as the boy was in the water of the
James river. Tuesday evening about
$3.50, the body was recovered in the
stream by Sheriff Wasser and Officer
Obermiller and searching party who
had been dragging the stream for
several hours. Travis was taken in
charge by the sheriff, coroner's
jury was summoned and Coroner Toud
held an inquest.
Travis has been employed only a
short time by the company and last
year was employed In keeping hobos
of of freight trains. Detective Bat
ten OF. the N. P. company states that
he supposed, from the former expert
ence with Travis that he was pos
sessed of good judgement and was a
cool headed man.
At the corone1's inquest Travis re-
lated the circumstances that led to
the shooting as follows: He said he
had been employed to watch railroad
property In the yards and to prevent
the fleQuent breaking of car seals
and pilfering that has been going on
| for some time.
Monday night about 7:3O p. 10. he
noticed man coming along in the
lower yards carrying bundle Of lath
and on being asked by the watciIman
what he was doing with it, the lad
replied that the boss told him to put
the lath In car on a side track near
by. Travis said chat the only cars
were two cabooses, that ne placed the
boy under arrest and they started up
town on the side walk. When part
way to town he boy broke and ran
from the walchman and hid in soMe
weeds south of the old planning mill
and near the river bank. Another
boy with lantern was coming along
at that time and the watchman
shouted to him to bring the ligh. as
he had use for 1t. Eiuhorn, who had
run into the. then made for the
river, and the watchman states he
could follow the direction by the
sound in the grass, but could not dis
tinctly see the man running away.
When he first broke awav the watch.
man fred two shots with the declar.
ed intention of ''stopping him." a
third shot was fred as the boy ra1
through the weeds, and two more
shots were fred as the boy was i1
the shadow of the Farmers elevator,
and just as he was coming out of the
water onto the east pank Of the
stream. Travis stated he fired the
last two shots intending to shoot
ahead of the boy to stor him, and II
was all guess work as it was dark
but, to the officers he previously
stated, it is said, that he had good
sight Of the boy In the water an6
took a good shot at him.
After firing the last two Shots
nothing further was heard from Elm.
horn, and Travis went on to the city
and reported the matter to the sher.
III and Officer Obermiller, and statec
the circumstances practically as he
related at the coroner's inquest. A
search was made in the vicinity o1
the river bank Monday night, bu,
nothing could be found to show the
whereabouts Of the boy, and yester.
day the search was resumed with the
Ereault Of finding the body late IA tht
day. The river 10 some points where
the boy crossed 1t is about 10 feet
deep, but the stream Is narrow, being
i very low. The Inquest Was held al
Flint's undertaking rooms, where
Doctors Rankin and Sifton examined
the body aho found. that ballet had
entered the back at the left Of thu
! spine and had passed through the
body and vas extraored from the lef,
side Of the neck. Travis identified
the body before the medical examin.
1atlon. he carried q Al revolver ot
the Colts pattern. He said he had
no authority 6 ! policeman to make
arrests, being employ yed sas q special
watchman by the company. The boy
could speak little or no English and
with his mother and two other chill
5drep, has bean 10 the city about 1
year. He was Employed in8ths rail-3
jIoad lumber yards and the family