The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-28
Harry AcCabe Shot While Arresting
Man on Charge of Grand
Larceny.
MURDERER USED A SHOT GUN
Wounded Officer Was Being Brought
To Bemidji Hospital When Death
Came.

Deputy Sheriff Harry McCabe, 4s
years old, of Cass County, who has
been jailor at the Cass county Jail in
Walker for the past four years, was
shot yesterday afternoon, by a man
named Smith, while the sheriff was
serving papers upon him on a charge
of grand larceny. McCabe was hur-
ried to the Bemidji hospital but died
before the train on which he was be-
ing carried, arrived here.
1t appears that yesterday morning
Deputy McCabe was given two war
rants against Smith, one on the
charge of grand larceny and the
other search warrant.
The place where McCabe was shot
is located on a point in Leech lake,
three miles from Walker. The way
in which the point is reached dur
ing the winter months is by driving
over the lake from Walker. Nc
Cabe decided that the best way
to take his man would be to walk,
out the Minnesota and International
railroad tracks to the Smith home,
thereby not allowing Smith to see
him driving across the lake. Nc
Cabe had arranged for team to
drive out to the Smith home about
an hour after he left, so that It
would reach there short time after
he arrived.
Smith made the following con-
fession to Sheriff DeLury of Cass
county after he had been arrested,
before several witnesses:
AS McCabe reached the front door
he found that it was locked, and
after knocking and receiving no
answer he broke his way in, meeting
Mrs. Smith with 20 rifle as he en-
tered. He at once took the gun
away from her and asked her where
her husband was, receiving as an
answer that he was in the next
room. McCabe, who was known as
a very brave man and also as one
of the very best officers in the state,
went to the door of the room and
opened it, receiving as he did so a
shot in the stomach from shot gun
in the hands of Smith standing not
more than six feet away. Smith
was at once terror stricken, and
when the team arrived to take the
sheriff and the prisoner back to
Walker, he and his wife gave them
selves up to the driver and assisted
him in taking care of the wounded
man.
Upon arriving in Walker Smith
was at once arrested, his wife being
arrested later and she is now in Jail
at that place. It was while he was be-
ing lodged in the county Jail that he
told the story as it has been told
above. -
McCabe was rushed to the hos
pital at Walker but it was decided
that the best way in which to care
for him would be to bring him to
the Bemidji hospital. McCabe died
short while after he had been
placed on the train in Walker.
The body of the dead sheriff was
sent back to Walker this morning.
McCabe was a son-in-law to Off
CcT WCE1TOy VI Lue 6em1QJ1 DOl1C0
force.
At the autopsy held over the body
of McCabe last evening, under the
direction of Deputy Coroner Kuland-
er, of Cass county, it was found that
the shot had lodged in the back
muscles, and two of the shot gun
wads and bits of clothing were found
with the shot.
McCabe is member Of Elks, Red
men and Woodman lodges and also
q member of the Minnesota sheriffs
association.
A charge of first degree murder
will be made against Smith.