Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1897 — Man Shot at Remington. [ARTICLE]

Man Shot at Remington.

He was Under Arrest And Trying to Escape. 4 Shoots Himself Accidentally, Going Through a Fence. News has been received of ah accidental shooting which occurred at Remington, late Friday afternoon. The party was Frank Hayden, of Delaware Co., who escaped from jail at Muncie last week, by crouching under his sister's dress as she was leaving the jail after visiting him. Friday Sheriff Reed received a telegram saying that Hayden was at Remington and asking him to arrest him. Mr. Reed telephoned over to his Remington deputy. L. A. Ford, and he arrested Hayden, who had been in Remington all day, in company with some parties named Hammond.

Hayden made Ford believe that he was the wrong man and he let him go. About a half hour later Ford went back and arrested him again, Preparations were then made to bring Hayden to Rensselaer. Ed Stone and Jerry Douglas started with him in a buggy, while Mr. Ford followed in another rig. A little this side of Remington Hayden suddenly produced a revolver and compelled his companions to let him out of the buggy. He then fired his revolver in the air once or twice and started to get away. He started to go through the wire fence, and his own revolver was discharged, presumably by accident, and he was shot through the right lung.

It is a bad wound but it is thought that he will recover. After he was taken back to Remington it was found that he had recently been shot before, having a fresh wound in the groin. It is said that his arrest in Delaware county was for sheep stealing.