Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-11-20
OFFICERS WING
FINN SUSPECT
Adolph Hanson Probably Fatally Shot
in Attempt to Escape Sheriffs
Bush and Spoor
BELIEVED TO BE DEMENTED MAN
Did Not Prove to Be the Man Officers
We're Looking For


man thought to be the missing
Finn who was the author of the
double murder recently at Laclede
but who did not prove to be he,
Deputy Sheriffs Charles Spoor and
George A. Bush brought Adolph
Hanson, Norwegian, to the Sand
point hospital Tuesday night seri-
ously and perhaps fatally wounded.
The man was shot shortly before
midnight Monday as he was run
ming away from his shack in the
woods and after he had attempted
an assault upon Deputy Spoor with
an axe.
Jack Waffle, residing two miles
out of Wrencoe, went hunting
Monday and while in the woods
came upon strange man living in
an old abandoned shack four miles
northeast of Wrencoe. AS soon as
the fugitive saw Waffle he grabbed
up his axe and ran away Waffle
came right to Standpoint the same
evening and reported to the sher-
ifs Office the circumstance and
stated that while he could not get
a good look at the mans face it
was apparent from the manner in
which he acted that he was trying
to elude detection. Thinking that
the man might prove to be the
much wanted Finn, Deputies Spoor
and Bush and Waffle left Monday
evening for Wrencoe by team.
They made the trip in to the shack
on foot from Wrencoe and arrived
there just before midnight.
The windows were out of the
shack and the one door was fast
ened with wire. The two depu-
ties made a run for the open win
dow and Spoor covered the man
with his revolver and told him to
throw up his hands. The fellow
grabbed up his axe and came
toward Spoor who fired at his feet.
With uplifted axe the man broke
the wire holding the door and ran
out of it. The officers were quick
in pursuit and as the man ran
down little hill of the path away
from the shack Deputy Bush fired.
Waffle was further along in the
trail and he also let fly at the re-
treating figure. Although it was
afterwards thought that it was
Bush's bullet that hit the man, he
did not fall until after the report
from Waffle's gun when he sank
down after taking a couple of steps.
-Four miles from help and in the
dead of night with a wounded
prisoners on their hands, the out
look was not very comforting.
Waffle went to Wrencoe and got
the Horn boys to take a wagon in
to the scene of the shooting. The
two deputies dressed the wounded
man injury the best they could
and cut two poles which, with
blanket the Horn boys brought in
with the wagon, they made into
stretcher. The wagon got in to
them about 4 o'clock and they ar
rived out at Laclede about 7 that
morning. The wounded man was
cared for at Laclede that day and
was taken to the Standpoint hospi-
tai by train that evening.
The officers reported that they
found near the spot where the fell
low fell a small bottle of carbolic
acid and it was evident from the
mans lips when they picked him
up that he had tried to take some
of the poison. In the shack was
found half pint of carbolic acid
and in his pockets some bi-chloride
tablets 1t looked as if the man
expected to be taken for some
crime and was prepared to take his
life rather than submit to arrest.
However, it was evident that he
was not a Finn and bore no re-
semblance to the man wanted for
murder. AT the hospital he gave
his name as Adolph Hansen, his
age as 3S and his nativity Nor
wegian.
The bullet entered Hanson S
right thigh, passed through the