Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-11
MCElrOne Receivers From
Mysterious Gun WOnnd
AUTHORITIES HOLD GORDON AN
DREW FOR QUESTIONING IN
REGARD TO SHOOTING

Winchester had been shot and killed
by then unidentified person The
young man was not killed and will
shortly be able to leave the hospital.
The following accounts from the Ash
land Daily Journal give the facts con
corning the shooting as we'll as known
at the time.
Unknown autoists in Ford sedan,
trailing behind an International truck
driven by Henry McElrone, IS, of
Winchester fired a revolver shot at
him at dusk last night and sped away
while the boy pulled the truck up at
the side of the road, blood squirting
from the bullet wound in his hip.
The only clue to Villas countys
strangest shooting case is that the boy
was mistaken for his father, who was
a deputy sheriff until March of this
year, and shot by moonshiners.
The boy was brought to ST. Joseph's
hospital this morning. An X-ray OF the
wound was taken, but unless the plates
show the bullet in dangerous place,
it will not be removed at once.
McEhone, though weak from loss
of blood, told what happened this
morning:
81 went out for drive in the even
ing in my fathers truck, with my sis
ter Helen, 16 and Bertha Anderson,
also 16
1--WE had driven to Spider Lake,
about eight miles from the farm where
we live, and had turned around to go
home.
ut was growing dark.
Suddenly we heard a sharp report.
Il thought it was tire blowing out,
so | pulled the car to the side of the
road
LAS I 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 not know | was shot
AS l got down onto the ground to ex-
anime the tires, put my hand on my
hip. | was dripping wet with blood.
g I'VE been shot, | said.
The girls screamed when they saw
the blood, but there was no. one near
by to help.
| got back into the truck and drove
on the Welcott Johnson place. john
son takes care of the Manitowish
dam. 1t was about mile away. | was
getting weaker and 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 McElrone
went through the back of the wooden
seat, through the upholstery, and into
the rear of his hip.
Persons at the Manitowish dam re-
ported Ludl d CtI Will OHO nCduA1ShI
went by shortly before McElrone
drove up, bleeding. The men in the
car were yelling as if drunk, they re-
ported.
The car was also reported seen at
Winchester and at Mercer, apparently
headed for Hurley When Winchester
Of h0 chnnfi1O
they secured the roads and threw a
net out along the road by telephone
calls, but the car was not located.
A SO calibre revolver bullet, fired at
Henry McElrone, IS, of Winchester,
by an unknown autoist who sped away
was extracted this morning from Nc
Elrone's hip at st. Joseps'h hospital.
The boy was reported resting COM
fortably following the operation. 1t
is expected that he will be able to
leave the hospital after few days
coDvalescing.
No fresh clue to the mysterious
shooting has been formulated. Thomas
McElrone, father of the boy and
former undersheriff of Villas county
arrived this morning from Eau Claire
where he had gone with Mrs. NOEL
rome on their way to Menominee,
where another son was to be placed
in Stout Institute. The first know
ledge they had of the shooting was a
telegram that reached them at Eau
Claire. Mrs McElrone is i'll at Eau
Claire following the nervous shock of
learning of the shooting,
District Attorney O'Connor of Villas
county called st. Joseph's hospital last
night and was in communication with
relatives of the wounded boy in an eff
fort to secure information that Nigh
lead to the arrest of the four or five
men in the auto from which the shot
was fired
Mr.. McElrone could offer no explain
alton of the shooting. He said that he
had no enemies who might have mis-
taken the boy for him. Though he serv
ed as undersheriff for some time, he
did not believe that moonshiners OF
others convicted during his term were
responsible for the shot.