The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-26
LLOYD BRAGG
IS WOUNDED
Former North Yakima Boy Shot
by Deputy Sheriff in Tacoma
and Is at Hospital
CROWD TRIES TO MOB
OFFICER AFTER AFFAIR
Father Ready to Take Law Into
His Own Hands When He
Learns Shooting Considered I'm
lawful

Learns shooting Considered Tn.
lawful
Lloyd Bragg, a 14-year-old school
boy formerly Of North Yakima. who
is now living in Tacoma, whose
father is connected with the Tacoma
Seed and Implement company. was
shot in the left side and seriously
wounded by Deputy Sheriff Weston
and the boy lies in the hospital in a
dangerous condition. The family is
we'll known in North Yakima. where
they lived for a number of years pre-
vious to going to Tacoma. The story
of the shooting. as told in the Ia
coma Lodges, is, in part, as follows:
The shooting occurred in varar+
lot next Westons home, 10 South
21st street. where young Bragg and
a cmpan!n named Frank Christensen
had beer drinking beer. Attracted
by the shots between 500 aad 500 poo
rle congregated about the SPOT and
When Weston manacled the 'alnting
BOY the sentiment of the crowd mao"
itself known by boots and yelis %
c.rision and very audible threats to
Get rope and lynch the officer
Tie deputy sheriff had LETT the key
t. his "darbies" at home, 50 H. was
necessary for City Dcte ,tivA Ere \
and Recob to remove the ste' i - y
the wrists of the PROSTATE boy when
they arrived upon the scehe Ia axe
h, 'youngster tc the couacy lo&p tI'
l.. the olicc ambulance. N',~i II
'irrh two or three shots--opaA.Cn MS
i'ltrel upon the numhc. bAt " :.
ten says tWo--and at the l1ospit:'l
during the afternoon County ph! 81 :
elan William McCreery extracted the
officers bullets from the lcit breast
If the 10y a few inches above the
heart There is grave dan-e~ that
.he bullet cut ona of the maia ar
tories Of the boys armpit ~ If
plowed it's way through the flesh
Mother to Prosecute
The Boys father assured by the
residents Of tho vicinity that the Of
ticcr's act was both unWa;r anted
ANA unlawful. stated his intention ~
taking the law in his own hands. TIL"
boy $ mother, at his bedside, soid
abe will start criminal prosecution
backed by a score of cyc-witncssc@,
some OF whom we're so curag ID It
Westons ocnduct that they chat
lenged hm to fight then and there.
All offers We're ignored, however,
ana the deputy sheriff accoulpani I'd
the wounded boy to tho county nos
pital. subsequently appearing to give
his version of the melee for publlca-
ton.
1T was about T. o'clock" he said,
and / had just come home from
church. AS soon as | got in the
house my wife complained OF two
boys who were in the vacant lot d:
the side of the house, drinking beer
firm Il suit case full OF bottles. Ny
Wife said they had insulted her by
shaking a bottle at her when she
put her head out to warn them
away, and had used vile and abusive
language to passers-by who were re-
turning from church. or course
was hot becouse my wife had been in
suited, 50 went out and found
young Brass and another boy out
tn ere sinking and another boys j;
there Sinking drunk, they having
been there two or three hour and
drank - or il bottles Of beer
Il told 5hcm ! wa an officer and
they were under arrest but the
Bragg boy began to run, and, just
to scare nim into stopping, | pulled
my gun and shot into the air a
couple OF imcs. | don know which
bullet hit him. nor how il happened
TO nit Inn, but / got Inn, and called
tor the police wagon so thal lie could
be properly attended tt. If he hadn't
tried to run away after I placed him
under arrest he wouldn't have been
shot
Came Recently From North Yakima
Lloyd Braga and the boy, live in
apartments at 1854 South Il street.
They moved here short time ago
from Yakima. where their home
proper is, and since coming to Ia
cine Lloyd has not been to school,
but contemplated starting at the
High school He is a well-built husky
lad and displayed his grit to advan-
tage when the doctors were extract
ing the bullet from it's lodging place
in his breast.
Laying back in his cot at the hos
pital following the minor operation
the boy told a totally different story
to the one Weston related, and one
which is corroborated in detail by
people who say they witnessed the
transaction.
The lad denied that he and Chris
Jensen had been at the vacant lot
longer than 30 minutes or half an
hour at the outside