The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-07-11
Shooting at Big Stone
The City Marshal at that Place Makes
Bungling Use Of Automatic
~ Revolver

Bungliny Use Of Automatic
Revolver
States Attorney Rix furnishes
us the particulars of an unfortu.
nate affair that occurred at Big
Stone last Saturday, as follows:
About seven thirty Or a quarter
to eight on Saturday evening, the
5th, Sheriff Jennings received a
telephone message from Big
Stone that there was shooting
affray and three men were in
jured. He at once got Deputy
Sheriff Crawford and Night
Watchman Derrick to start for
Big Stone on a motor cycle.
They started a little after eight.
Sometime after the deputy
sheriff and night marshal and
helper were on the way to Big
Stone another message came
from Big Stone which chief of
police Sutclitfe answered. The
second message said that every
thing was alright, that they had
the man and that it would not be
necessary for the sheriff to come.
When Deputy Sheriffs Craw-
ford and Derrick arrived upon
the ground at Big Stone they
could not find the Marshal or
any one who seemed to know
very much about the matter.
However they got one of the men
who was mixed up in the affair
and brought him back to Mil
bank. Upon questioning this
man he told a story that he and
his partner, who was a Norwe
gian, had come in contact with
the man who was shot and his
partner little before dark that
day, and they were going along
the track going east when they
met another fellow, and they had
their supper together, along the
railroad track at a point which
was about south of the hotel at
Big Stone City. That night after
they had their supper they start
ed to walk down the track
towards Ortonyille, and met two
men whom they did not know
and who gave no signs of any
kind that they were officers; that
one Of the men did not have a hat
on and had his sleeves rolled up
and acted intoxicated. There
were five of them and one of the
two men ordered them to line up,
that one of the five. who had fur
nished the supper, resisted and
demanded to know by whatright
they were asked to line up or
hike on. There was some scuff-
ling between the men, that is, the
companion of the Big Stone Mar
shal and the hobo who resisted;
about this time the Marshal came
up and drew his gun. There
was somewhat of scuffle be-
tween the marshal and the hobo,
at which time two shots were
fired, one of which took place in
the right arm of the hobo below
the elbow from which the blood
flowed freely and the other shot
hit the Marshal in the left foot
After some little talking the mar
shal and his companion left and
the hobo that was shot made his
way towards the Ortonville hos
pital: The Marshal got the man
who was brought back to Mil
bank into buggy and told him
he was good fellow and for him
to skip out, which he was trying
to do when the Deputy Sheriff
got him. 1t was about midnight
when the officers got through
questioning this man, and things
were allowed to 60 until the next
morning; this man was taken in
to custody by the sheriff and held
until Monday. On Sunday JUS
tice Bleser, Sheriff Jennings and
Attorney Rix went to Ortonville
and made inquiry about the facts
and circumstances. They first
went to the hospital at Ortonville
but as DR.. Bolsta wasout of town
and Miss Bolsta the head nurse
at the hospital was likewise out
of town, and as the under nurses
have no authority to give out any
information the officers were un-
able to determine definitely
where the man was that had
been shot. They, however,
gathered from the remarks of
the nurses that the man 5 wound
was dressed Saturday night at
the hospital and was not con
sidered very dangerous, and was
taken away from the hospital
late that night or early Sunday
morning. To make sure Of this
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