Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-19
FIRES AT OFFICER
 M'CANN
Someone With Deadly 6rudge Against Phoenix Deputy Comes Within Six Inches of Killing Him at Home
1 Phoenix pemocrat.l

An atte mpt was made last night at l0.l5 clock to ass2sslaate pct4uty Sheriff Marion McCaAn .S ne lay On a cot in his home at la0s East Madi- son street. the bullet passiag nut six inches above the fUll leaStl of his hody and unloading itse.f in an adone wal behind him.
 McCann returned she fire when he saw his assaiiant pass a screen door shooting but once with his .45-calibre Colts. That McCann's bullet found g mark is evident from the bloodstains that he found this morning.
 No motive for the attempt or clue to the identity of the man who tried to kill him could be offered by McCann this morning, other than 1t is possibly some person whom he mas arrested or friend of some man ne has helped to send to jail.
 McCann went home last night be- tween 9:30 and 10 o'clock, retiring a few minutes later. Just after he had blown out the light and WAS :,fady to go to sleep he was brought to his feet by the report of gun and the whistle of bullet as it passed cinsr to aim
 Grabbing his gun from a tahls rear by, McCann got to a screen door iUst in time to see a man run past. iIc shot once, but the man did no, stop, continuing straight ahead and climb ing over fence to disappear in the darkness.
 From the point where the man was located to the other side ot the fence ! there is blood. The top of the fence is stained with crimson, and on the other side of the fence where the nan must have fallen is a small pool of | blood.
 Asked why he did not follo1 and shoot more than once, McCann said this morning that he felt rather eau
 tious about rushing out of the house when he did not know whether or not the other man had confederstes near by. s
 l Standing close to the window, the
 would-be assassin shot through the | lower part of the screen. The cur tain on the inside hung down to with | in twelve inches of the bottom. Me Cam was lying with his feet toward the window, and, judging from where
 the bullet entered and hit the wall.
 its range could not have been more
 than six inches above the full length
 of his body
 l McCann states that when he went home last night he saw four men ride
 past his house slowly on horseback.
 It is his opinion that one of these men fired the shot, while the others waited nearby and helped their wounded con | federates to get away.
 | While he has no way of knowing,
 McCann believes that his bullet in flicted serious injury. The man. s | side was toward him when he shot, which would indicate that if he was hit at all the wound was a deep one. McCann says he aimed at about his shoulder and thinks he hit him there. Without any clue to guide them the officers are at sea in their attempts to discover the man who did the shoot ing. Their only hope is that his in Jury is such that he will have to have medical attention and through that means the officers put on the track.
 This is the second time McCann has had to defend himself against an assassin. Thirty years ago in Pleas ant valley, near Touto creek, he en- gagged in a pistol duel with five cattle rustlers. He escaped uninjured. but badly wounded one of the outlaws. The fellow is now in the territorial penitentiary.