The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-10-28
NOTIFIED FOR SEVERAL HOURS
After the Shooting Stevens Was Brought Grand View o~
tel Pentyvood and Medical Aid Summoned and Sheriff
Collins Was Not Noted Until Several Hours Later.

ter Hawley of Poplar, were shot in a
brawl resulting from big poker
game last Wednesday morning at Two
o'clock. The game had started Tues
day afternoon at four o'clock and had
lasted until early Wednesday morn
> ing when the shooting occurred, and
Hawley was left for dead on the
streets of Dooley by those who We're
| implicated in his shooting.
| As a result of the shooting, Barry
Stevens of Outlook is at the Grand
View hotel, Plentywood, with a bullet
| hole through his right thigh, and
Chester Hawley lies in bed at Dooley
with bullet hole thru his chest and
/ another one through his head and the
bullet lodged in his neck, he still lives.
Barry Stevens is recovering rapidly
from his wound and Chester Hawley.
is making, to the surprise OF both
laymen and doctors, a most miracul-
GUS recovery, for after several hours
of unconsciousness, he recovered his
memory and shortly after was able
to tell his story of the happenings Of
the previous evening. Hawley has
since been holding his own and the
chances for his complete recovery
seem very hopeful and Hawley him
self insists that he is going to be on
| his feet again soon.
There are two stories current as to
how the shooting came about; one
told by Stevens and his friends and
the other by Hawley, who much to
the surprise of everybody, being con5
I sidered dead, came to-, and told his
story and the two stories do not gibe:
It seems that Barry Stevens of
Outlook, Pete Stewart of Plentywood,
and Harry Hoffman of Plentywood,
!, had gone to Dooley Tuesday afternoon
in a big automobile looking for pok-
e; er game and about four o'clock one
i was organized with Chester Hawley
sitting in, Hawley also being a gamb-
: Ter and engaged in the poker-craI
> ), business. It is also claimed that
q there were others who sit in the game
t from time to time and stayed as lone
9 as their money aasted land dropped
= out. as it is reported that the game
J was big one, there being thousant
I. dollars in sight most Of the time. III.
i game broke up, according to botl
stories about two o'colck Wednesda,
'10i STEVENS STORY
Il The story of the affray as told b.
e Pete Stewart and Barry Stevens, ap
peared today in the Pioneer Pres
and is as follows:
"As Messrs. Berry Stephens,
Peter Stewart and Harry Hoffman
+ were about to enter their automo-
bile which was standing in front
l. of the restaurant at Dooley about
-, two o'clock Wednesday morning,
1v a man stepped from between two
- buildings and covered them with
Is gun, ordering them to throw
va 'em up.' The men complied with
g the hold-up mans request and he
. proceeded to help himself to the
;s money and valuables which they
he carried. AS the robber turned
- his attention to the other men
4 for a moment, Berry Stephens
az procured revolver which was in
- - the side pocket of the car, as he
70 was reaching for the gun the
be m robber turned upon him, firing
- once hitting Stephens in the leg.
Stephens opened fire, shooting the
ii man twice and he turned and
r fed"
HAWLEY'S STORY
Chester HaWley states that the pa
ty was gambling and that Barry Ste
ems. Pete Stewart, Harry Hutfma
himself ana other from time TO tin
had been gambling from four o'clo'
Tuesday until. two o'clock Wednesds
morning when the game broke up
7 row. He claims that the rest
the gamblers had framed on him a
together had taken away his mon
nv questionable means. He pull
M h;c c1,n and demanded his money ba