East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-23
dorm SHOT DEPUTY
ECHO MAN TEMPORARILY
INSANE AT BOISE CITY
II. Dorm Taken From Hospital and
Lodged In Jail, Shot Deputy Sheriff
Driscoll In the Face With MuslSet
Insanity Thought to Have Been
Caused by Illness.

The Boise Capital News gives the
following account of the shooting of
Deputy Sheriff Driscoll of that city
by Henry Dorm of Echo, whom 1t is
thought was temporarily insane
through illness. The News says:
Deputy Sheriff Drlscoll had his
face filled full of fine bird shot at the
county Jail at G:30 this morning by
Henry Dorm. the insane man, who
was taken from St Luke's hospital
ty him last evening and lodged in
the county jail
Dorm claimed to have come from
Echo, Oregon, and has been at both
hospitals taking treatment for what
was thought to be an imaginary i'll
ness. IN the morning he began to
show symptoms Of insanity and late
in the afternoon he became violent
and Deputy Sheriff Driscoll took
hin. from the hospital after fierce
struggle in which he bit the deputy
sheriff through the hand.
In the back room off the sheriff's
main office, standing against the
wall just outside the cell in which
the insane man was lodged, was ar
old U. $. Springfield rifle. During
the night he reached out and obtain
ed possession of the gun and abso-
lutnly refused to give 1t up to the
nigh, watchman
Shot Deputy in the Face.
This morning when Mr.. Driscoll
arrived Dorm told him to come and
get the gun and handed It out of
the cell muZzle first. Having no idea
that the gun was loaded the officer
stepped up after 1t with the result
that his face was literally filled with
fine shot. As he ran from the room
the blood streaming from his face,
Dorm again pointed the gun at him
and pulled the trigger, but It was not
loaded.
Dorm kept the gun in his posses
sion, absOlutel refusing to give 1t up,
and as it was not known whether he
had any more ammunition, he was
master of the situation at the Jail
this morning as nc one dared enter
the room.
The officials at the Jail state that
the gun had been there for long
time and as 1t was old-fashioned
they had never hcen' able to find a
shell TO fit 1t. They have no idea
where Dorm obtained one unless he
had 1t in his possession. When asked
to give the gun up this morning
Dorm said he had too hard time
getting It to be willing to give 1t up.
Deputy Sheriff Driscoll was taken
to his home and attended by DR..
Bocck, who picked out most of the
shot. The wounds received are
, very painful and will keep him from
his office for some time.
Subdued by Cold Water.
Afte: holding the officials at bay
in the county jail all morning Dorm
was subdued at noon by having cold
water turned on him with a hose by
City Detective Dowd, who appeared
upon the scene at that hour. Before
handing out the gun, however. he ex-
hausted his ammunition, firing one
shot at the officers and then turning
the rifle on himself, put bullet in
his head just between the eyes, in
flicting q scalp wound.
Dorm was then taker from the cell
and was handcuffed and searched.
Three empty 32-caliber cartridges
We're found on him. They were
much too small for the rifle he used,
but he cleverely bent a piece of wire
around the top of the cartridges to
keep them from falling through the
barrel.
Dorm believes the doctors and dep
uties are Matching plot to perform
an operation upon him to get his
money and he stated he shot DrscolI
because he refused to send tele-
gram to his brother. who is a doctor
at Echo, Oregon. After being hand
cuffed he talked loudly along this
strain and said he understood that
his end was near as he was now al
the mercy Of his conspirators.