The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-16
HIJACK EFFORT
CAUSES SHOOTING
AT LOCAL GARAGE
Oscar Schneider, Local Taxi
Driver, Wounded Twice in
Leg; Bullet Grazes Head
SOUGHT ALCOHOL TRUCK
Four Strangers Appear to De.
fend Liquor-L laden Vehicle
and Battle Ensues

oscar schneider, local Coxl oIlVSIs
was shot In the legs and q bullet
his cheekbone during an al,
legged hijacking attempt at . local
garage at s o'clock this morning.
The battle developed when four
said to be owners Of the
appeared to defend their prop
erty. The contents Of the truck
proved, upon examination, to be Ii
kegs Of alcohol Of 10 gallons each.
Just what happened Il not clear
and Police Chief Chris Martineson
said this morning that he had little
information on the subject.
Garage proprietors said the truck
came there three days ago for tenn
pofary storage. It bore an interior
decorator sign on the side.
Until this morning nobody had
called to claim the vehicle. Then
Schneider Is said to have appeared,
shortly before 6 q. m, and demanded
Of Loren Brownlee. night attendant,
that he be admitted to the upper floor
Of the garage where the vehicle was
stored. He was driving q big motor
car and this also was run upstairs.
Soon four men, strangers, appeared
in the street. They patrolled the
garage for q time, then am inside
and asked the attendant about the
man who had gone upstairs. Schnei-
der was q stranger to the attendant
and had acted as though he were q
federal officer. which obtained ad-
mittance for him.
When anhneider appeared coming
down the elevator with the Cadillac
the shooting began. The four strang.
era and Schneider had the place te
themselves, as the attendant under.
stood this was q government party
and q generous display Of "gats" sug.
gested that it would be best to leave
the argument entirely to his early
morning visitors.
Some of the bullets shattered win.
dows In cars, but two lodged in one OF
Schneider's legs and q third grazet
one cheekbone.
Then everybody scattered.
Later the police and Federal En-.
forcer w. J. Nicholaus came to the
garage ana took possession Of the
Schneider car and the alcohol. Some
OF the liquor was stored at the police
station and the rest was taken Il
quarters in the federal building which
the enforcing force here uses. It L
said to be l88-proof alcohol.
No arrests have been made so far
The enforcers r confined to act.
ing under orders from prohibition
headquarters at Fargo and the police
not having had q look at the strang.
ers. said they are merely working or
clues for the present.
Before leaving the garage after thu
shooting had terminated, the leader
Of the Minnesota car crowd tolt
Brownlee 1t was perfectly safe" FOL
him to tell his story truthfully II thu
matter came into court.
las far rs we are concerned
Br0wnlee quoted him as saying, "yov
can go ahead and tell the exact
truth"
Schneider is q patient at q loca
hospital. His attending physician sale
the wounds are in his thighs.
One bullet entered the right lie,
above the knee and ranged downward
into the lower leg. where It still wa
lodged this afternoon. Surgeons ar
waiting for an x-ray photograph t,
disclose the exact nature Of his in.
turies. The other bullet entered tn
front Of the left thigh and came GU
several inches lower on the Time,
side.
The third wound Is q laceratiol
across the left temple.
It was said Schneider had beer
drinking heavily and was intoxicated
at the time Of the shooting.