Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-05
JACK BOYD SHOT.
NIECE AFTER
PURSUIT
Former Bisbee Man Who Re-
Ceived Thousands for Injuries
EnaCtS Tragedy While Penni-
less and in Desperate Mood.

Dispatches last night from Pasade-
ma state that the eondN ADn Of Jack"
Boyd Widely known throughout the
Warren District, and his niece, Miss
Katherine Tomilson, whom he shot
and mortally wounded Friday near
Pasadena, assure Boyd's recovery
but the girls condition is yet critical.
An account Of the shooting as describ-
ed in the Los Angeles Examiner indi.
Gates that Boyds last penny Of the
money granted by the Warren ailway
Company for injuries. is gone and ap-
parently he resorted TO violence while
in desperate frame of mind. Follow.
ing is the Examiners story:
Money awarded by an Arizona Jury
for the Gripping of a man for life
was the cause of a tragedy at the
Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasa-
dena yesterday afternoon when "a steel
corset-rib saved girl from immediate
death from a bullet fired from re-
volyer in the hands of her uncle, who,
i'm a struggle to disarm him. was
wounded in the hand
The man who fired at least two OF
the three shots, one of which may yet
cause a death, was Harmon Boyd,
aged 55, who is known in nearly every
section of the United States and Can
ada as 'Bum-It Jack Boyd, a name in
which he takes considerable pride.
The girl, who probably would now
be dead had not one of the bullets
struck the steel rib OF her corset and
detected 10 from the heart to the
stomach is Miss Katherine Tomilson.
2S. niece to Boyd and daughter of Mr..
and Mrs q. J. Tomuson of 6176 York
boulevard Los Angeles.
Boyd. who is held as prisouer-pa-
tient at the County Hospital, says
that his niece and his sister Mrs
Tomilson, deserted him at Burbank
last spring. after he had given into
their keeping $500 of the $4,000 or
more which he received from a rail-
road company i'm Bisbee, Ariz., as an
award for his being crippled for life
Boyd recently filed suit, through
Attorney Campbell, and reaching a
condition where he was in need of
food, he finally located his niece as
being employed in a Photographic
concession conducted by Felix DEM
Ter a friend of the Tomilsons', at the
ostrich farm.
He arrived there about o'clock
yesterday afternoon and. according to
the reports of officers who worked on
the case he limped into the studio.
drew a revolver and shouted:
Pm going to shoot the whole -
bunch
With that, still according to the Of
hcers, be fired at DAIMLER The bullet
struck .he photographer on the ankle,
but did not penetrate the leather of
his shoe
THE next shot struck Miss Tomil-
son The bullet hit the corset rib
near the shoulder blade and probably
would have passed into the girls
heart if that piece of steel had not
changed its course so that it finally
imbedded itself in her stomach. AsI
it is, she is so seriously injured that
he'd death is not unexpected.
after the second shot was fired,
DAIMLER leaped upon Boyd and in
their struggle the revolver was dis
charged a third time, the bullet taking
effect i'm 'BumIt Jacks right hand,
entering the palm and passing out al
the wrist on the other side.
Boyd, who lost the use of both legs
i'm the accident which brought him the
money which caused the shooting. and
who walks with the aid Of iron sup
porters and cane, and whose left
hand has been minus three fingers for
thirty years, was no match for Danz
Ter. who is a much younger man.
Boyd was soon overpowered and
bound with a rope which the photo
grapher tore from an awning Then
the police were called. Miss Tomil-
son was hurried 10 the Pasadena Hos.
pital Boyd was taken to the County
Hospital, and DAIMLER went to the
home of Justice of the Peace G.. h.
Cump of South Pasadena and swore