Arizona republican., 1914-04-19
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Continued From Page One) entered the hall, the Elks smiled. Everyone thought it was just another outburst of Elkish enthusiasm. Pro chaska spoke smlingly of the bon bardment" which was being fired in his honor. Even on the streets. where scores of men saw the shooting spectators grinningly acknowledged that the Elks were having good time with blank cartridges on the last day of the s:a'e reunion.
 But Freed had been strnck by onf of the bullets before he entered thn pharmacy The ball inflicted Il flesh wound in his back. Harry rritle of the Gazette was one of the spccth- tors. A bullet after striking the side sidewalk, glanced up and struel. him in the leg. lt caused nothing more serious than a flesh wound
 Freed continued through the phar- macy into the lobby White aproned dispensers of soda water had tucked behind their counters or fled into the street
 In the hotel, everything was being put in readiness for the closing so- cial event of the Elks' reunion Hern- don, pale and only partly clad. came into the lobby after Freed still brandishing his weapon. Among a gathering of women sitting near the door which leads from the lobby into the pharmacy was Kate Lincoln, q business woman of Globe
 She was among the iiIst in the lobby to realize that the revolver shooting was not merely for pur- poses of celebration She rushed to- wards Herndon, just as Jack Keegan. deputy sheriff Of Globe, made q lungc at the bus boy. Keegan missed his first punch. hut the second one [ landed. and Herndon sank to the floor. Meanwhile Elks poured from the balcony. C. G. Eiuss deputy sheriff of Pima county slipped man acles on Herndon's wrists as he' lav on the floor He also hustled Freed. who stood nearby into an automobile. 1 Charles Miller and Oliver Creech were | also among those who first closed in | on Herndon. It was thought. at first ! that Herndon too was shot and he was hustled into the automobile with Freed.
 Freed was taken to the Sisters hos 1 pital, and the machine then went back | to the sheriffs office with Herndon who remained silent and apparently unconscious At the jail Herndon. in strong English accents. spoke in mumbled tones when County Attor- ney Lyman and Sheriff Adams ques toned him.
 T can stand so much, an no more you sec" he said. This man an't done any one particular thing to make me angry. but just a lot of little oc- casiOns you know. l went out to ge
 him, and l gave him q blamed goo. chase at that"
 Herndon had no socks CT shirt on
 He said he awoke late in the after
 noon. got gun. and then went bacl
 to bed again. He awOke again. pu
 on few clothes, and went into tn,
 kitchen. Witnesses declared that h.
 drove Freed from the kitchen and en
 countered him again on the corner
 Herndon apparently was under the in fiuence of a drug. as he dozed whil , he was being questioned by the off
 eers. He said he had been working
 for the Hotel Adams little less than
 month
 Creech escaped being shot only be cause the revolver did not operat
 properly when Herndon pulled tn l trigger for the sixth shot Creech wa
 upon Herndon in the lobby of tn } hotel when the crazed bus boy pulle the trigger the last time.