The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-13

year. An endurance horse race to the
Hesper farm and back for women was
also staged as a part of the celebration
and five horses were killed and one
woman died as a result Of the race.
A negro hobo from Louisiana ran
amuck on the south side in Angus.
1911. BrandiShing a knife, the negro
threatened several persons n rThen
police arrived locked himself in 4 small
shack. Bruce Zachary. then a member
of the force. broke down the door and
entered. The negro came at him swing
ing an iron bar and Zachary sho1 him
dead.
One Of the tragedies recalled by
Heagney and Schultz is the suicide of
one of their brother officers. J. L.
Dooley had resigned from the force and
completed his last shift at I a. m. on
Nov. l. 1911, He reported off duty and
ers were then. near what is now the
council chambers. Officers below heard
a shot-rushed upstairs and found
Dooley's body with a bullet hole behind
the ear.
H. R. Kogen, Billings tailor, who
still has a shop there, is the principal
in one of the veterans recollectionS.
In December. 1911, Kogen was meas
uring a man for a suit Of clothes while
the customers companion stood near
by. The companion dubbed Kogen
with a window weight and the two
attempted to rob the tailor. Still con-
scious, Kogen secured the heavy weight
and felled one of the men, the other
ran but was captured by police. They
were sentenced to five years each in
prison for the robbery try.
The Wanamaker basement store be-
meath the First National bank operated
by Fred Inabnit. was held up the same
month. No arrests were made.
Negress Fatally Stabbed
A negreSs was fatally stabbed in the
back by a waiter in a cafe at 10 South
Twenty-sixth street in May, 1912: The
waiter was captured at Yegen by Police
Officers Guy Willis, Stone Matlock and
AL Helgo. He was convicted and i'm
prisoned for 20 years.
In 1912 Columbus was still a part of
Yellowstone county and in July of that
year, Charles Douiken, city marshal
of the town, was shot and killed by a
man named Homer Porter. Douiken
was attempting to arrest Porter for
disturbing the peace at the time he
was killed. Porter was sentenced to
30 years in prison.
An oddly recalled by the police was
a slaying-suicide with the two victims
buried in the same grave. A Billings
character. Sam (S~carface) Davis, mar
ried an Indian girl. They were divorced
and John Davis, not related, married
her. Later Sam came back into her
life and she left John. Enraged, John
were buried side by side in the same
grave
Unerring craftsmanship by police Of
ficerS has often dropped lawbreakers.
In September. 1918, Officer Helgoe was
chasing a hobo on Minnesota avenue.
The man ran by Yegen's store and as
Helgoe shouted to him to stop, the flee
shot five times. -Four Of the bullets
found their mark and killed the a
Shooting duels of the. old west had
their part in the days of the police de-
partment a decade and a half after
the turn of the century. A man named
Gately n a young cowboy named
Wilhelm got into an argument at Pom-
pegs Pillar in 1915. Gately hot Will
helm and as the cowboy fell he emptied
his gun at his duelist and killed him.
Tong Wars Recalled
Chinese tong wars flared. frequently
! years ago and in 1916 a serious out
break occurred on the south side. The
WongS and the Toys mixed it up and
a Wong and four Toys were arrested.
The member of the Wong clan died
shortly after the Toys were released
and Shultz and Joe Lawson rearrested
them in a south side cafe. All were
convicted of murder and sentenced to
from 80 to 60 years in prison.
One of the few policemen killed in
action was Enos M. Nelson, who on
Dec. 16, 1917, was sent to the Little
Terrace saloon, Minnesota avenue and
Twenty-siXth street, to arrest a Mex
lean who was flashing a gun. The
Mexican hid in the rea of the saloon
and as Nelson entered fired at him
without warning and killed him. The
Mexican fled from the saloon and was
located by two Billings men, Walter
LOOMS and WILDER Jeffries. on North
Thirty-second street. They followed the
slayer and reported his whereabouts
to police. w. L. Terrell and Pat Bake,
police officers, sighted the Mexican
at Montana avenue and Thirty-second
street. The Mexican opened fire, wound
ing Bake in the ankle. Bake shot
back and hit the Mexican in the chest
as Terrell ran up and moved the slay-
er down with a sawed-off shotgun. The
Mexican survived. was convicted of
murder and hanged at the county Jail
April -, 1918. He dangled from a rope
over the stairs at the jail for II min
utes before he was pronounced dead.
Sergeant Fl0vd had heep O poonhor