The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-28

him over the fence and didn't injure
him IL bit: there wasn't IL scratch on
him; L don't think there was IL scratch
on me. l made no threats again him
me. | next saw McL.ain Cooper, after
this scrap about Z o'clock or 7:15 the
next morning. We had breakfast at
Z o'clock and VIC went out to the barn.
J. went back in the barn and got u
pail Of feed for the pigs and when I
come to the door-thc barn door. ]
met the gun. McLain Cooper. and
son OF Harry j. Cooper held that gun.
He ays II am going to shoot you"
He threw the gun in my face, and he
says. Il am going to shoot you.
Frank" says 'go ahead inc Shoot
something like that and ] walked
down Il little further and went into the
other door and getting down to this
door he shot at mt twicc-that is the
when ] got down in the sheep shed
he shot again. When he fired the
third shot ] was inside. Nobody said
anything during the time that he was
firing. Tho first two shots my back
was to him and when I got to the shed.
| wouldn't a None Of these shots
hit me. The first two struck the barn.
thing-therc is witnesses that saw the
bullet holes in the building, but 1
couldn't say for 1 never got back to
the barn. | think when the third shut
was fired l was emptying the feed out.
Up to this time he never said IL word.
The only remark l heard was. II am
going to shoot you"-that was the
first thing. Then Jack Heulet hitched
up the team and he was just going
areund the corner of the barn and I
got back there and I says. put your
team in the barn, Jack. 1t is getting
too hot here for me-" We'll" Jack
SAYS. throw up our hands-why
don't O throw up your hands and
find out what he wants." So 1 did;
what do you want??" He says. Il
want you to leave the place" That is,
McLain Cooper said that. ! said II
will get my coat and 60" didn't
make amy threats against him at that
time. ] ""ver made any threats against
McLain Cooper. l never Used M
weapon on him: / never had any trou-
pie with him Other. than the trouble
l nave just referred to. During this
time my wife was in the house and
she wanted to GO to town that day, so
when l started to the house to get
m Ncoat, | got about half way to the
house and there is where he chot me,
ana she come around; h had to come
around the old bunk house to see
"AASAS VIZ WGIc AZ Tile Darn, YOU EEUW,
ana she was going to find u about
the team. and when she come around
and looked up, there. McLain was
standing there looking at me with the
gun in his hand; 1 was lying dow
then and he had shot me. Thai NORM
ing McLain Cooper and I and my wife
and John Heulet, the witness who is
now IN Jail. and my ten year old step
daughter and my boy, about six years
old, were on the farm that morning.
George wasn't there that morning.
When tina last shot was fired, l was
going to the GUS after my coat
from the barn TO the house, was
about half way. McLain Cooper came
along behind and he was walking up
on a kind of ridge. and l got about
half way to the house when he shot.
He had the gun in his hand during
all this time; every time I see him he
had tina gun in his hand. I didn't
see him shortly before he fired the
last shot. | started for the house for
my coat and l got down quite a WAYS
before he caught up with me. and L
dldn't expect him to shoot or anything,
and J. wasn't looking. just as soon
as he shot he walked around me and
he says, Il have plenty mroc- have
got plenty more;" that is all he said.
lie fired four shots that morning, TO
my knowledge and it was the fourth
shot that dropped ME When started
Tor the house. John Hculct was putting
nc team in the barn. He had Il team
hltched up and he was putting them
in the barn. The barn is, ! should
Judge, about seventy-five yards from
the house; 1t might be Il little bit the
other The barn is north and ~
little bit west from the house. I don't
think Mcl4ain Cooper remained on the
farm over live or ten minutes after he
mad shot me; until he got his team. 7
didn't hear him say anything after the
shooting except what 1 have told him
to tell Hculet to help me in the house
and heard him say to Heulct. there
is a fellow down there wants Won to
help him in the house." just after
the shooting my wife come out and II
see him with the gun and she hollcrcd
to me. are you shot, Frank?" and I
says yes" and 1 says "phone for a
DOCTOR" I didn't see whether McLain
cooper had the gun in his hand when
! told him to tell John Heulet to help
me in the house: he had the gun witt,
nm, he had no place to put it. We
mad no trouble that morning outside
of this shooting-not a word-and he
never asked me to leave the farm UNI
III that morning. and there never was
Il; word in the world about settlement.
When Harry j. Cooper left the farm
he dldnt give me any instructions as
to the running OF The farm. lie lust
called me up by phone ana he told
me. "hcllo." he says. IT wanted to
come out TO see you, but l couldn't
get out he " II am going to take
the evening train" Nothing was said
between us as to McL.ain Cooper at
that time. was in charge of the
farm. 1 was hired by the year to tnke
charge of the farm in the summer
ana help to take rare of the stock
In the winter. Heulet had wnr'-ad tor
Cooper not quite Il month. Tic worked
on the sutton farm about three wee $.
and then they brought him from the
sutton farm. I was conscious shortly
after ] was shot was always con-
scious and I remember everything as
well as I "r: sitting here. Iiculet didn't