Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — A Bullet’s Freak. [ARTICLE]

A Bullet’s Freak.

A few years ago there was in portions of the new West much lawlessness of one kind and another, checked only by an occasional piece of individual retribution or by an outburst of vigilance-committee work. A curious shooting affair which occurred in Medora, North Dakota, is thus described by Mr. Roosevelt: I did not see the actual occurrence, but I saw both men immediately afterward, and 1 heard the shooting, which took place in a saloon on the bank, while I was swimming my horse across the river. I will not give the full names of the two contestants, as I am not certain what has become of them; though I was told that they had since been put in jail or banged, I forget which. One of them was a saloon-keeper, familiarly called "Wei shy. The other man, Hay, had been bickering with him for some time. One day Hay entered the saloon, and the quarrel beeame at once violtent. Welshy suddenly whipped out his revolver and blazed away at Hay. Hay staggered slightly, shook himself, stretched out his hand, and gave back to his Would-be slayer the ball, saying, “Here, man, litre’s the bullet!"' It had glanced along his breastbone, gone a roundabout course, and come out at the point of the shoulder, when, being spent, it dropped down the sleeve into his hand. *MA train of pure. thought will only run on the track of a well-graded miiuL.