Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-10
SHOT WHILE DRIVING
Winchester Lad Wounded BY
Passing Autoist, Who Shot
Him Near Rest Lake Last
Thursday.

F1Im Near KeSt Lake Last
Thursday.
| Henry McElrone, eighteen-year
old son of Thos. McEIrone Of Win
chester, Villas county, was shot
in the hip by a motorist who evil
IDENTIFY mistook him for some
other person. The lad suffered a
shot in the hip and latest reports
is that he is getting along nicely.
The shooting occurred on High
way 10 near Rest lake. The lad
was taken to Ashland the follow
ing morning where an X-ray
showed the bullet in the left hip.
The shooting is thought to have
resulted in the boy being mis-
taken for his father, who has been
very active in the prosecution of
moonshiners over in that section
of Villas county.
Following the shooting a search
over the entire northern part of
the state was started to appre-
bend the occupants of the car
who did the shooting.
McElrone told the authorities
he was driving a truck toward
Winchester from Rest lake accom-
panied by his sister and girl
friend. They came upon an en-
closed car, and after he had passed
the car shot was fired, piercing
the truck cab,- the bullet lodging
in his hip. He said none of the
occupants of his machine heard
the discharge of the gun, owing
to the noise made. by the moving
truck.
McElrone made the following
statement of the shooting to The
Hurley News reporter:
Il went out for a drive in the
evening in my fathers truck, with
my sister Helen, 16, and Bertha
Anderson, also 16.
I'VE had driven to Spider Lake,
about eight miles from the farm
where we live, and had turned
around to go home.
1T was growing dark.
Suddenly we heard sharp re-
port.
4 thought it was a tire blowing
out, so pulled the car to the side
of the road
AS | did so a Ford sedan shot
by us at a high rate of speed.
There were four or five men in it,
and the luggage carrier on the
running board was full of luggage.
| noticed that the car had only
one headlight, which was burning
brightly.
Even then | did know | was
shot. AS | got down onto the
ground to Examine the tires, |
put my hand on my hip. I was
dripping wet with blood.
I've been shot," I said.
The girls screamed when they
saw the blood, but there was no
one nearby to help.
Il got back into the truck and
drove to the Welcott Johnson
lplace. Johnson takes care of the
Manitowish dam. 1t was about a
mile away. / was getting weaker
land weaker and when I got there
they took care of me and took me
to the Winchester hospital"
| Neither McElrone or the two
| girls could give a description of
the men in the Ford because it
was dusky.
| The bullet that struck Neil
rome went through the back of
the wooden seat, through the up
holstery, and into the rear of his
hip.
| Persons at the Manitowish dam
reported that car with one head
light went by shortly before Nc
Elrone drove up, bleeding. The
men in the car were yelling as if
drunk, they reported.
| The car was also reported seen
lat Winchester and at Mercer,
apparently headed for Hurley.
! When Winchester police got the
report of the shooting, they
secured the roads and threw a net
out along the road by telephone
. calls, but the car was not located.
Later Sheriff Blohm brought
over last night Gordon Andrews of
Manitowish, an 18-year old lad,
who will have a hearing relative
to the shooting Of McElrone.
Erecting New Home.