Show CRANK S About whom a Great Deal is Said Much made out of a Very Little Boston 7Shortly afternoon today I to-day Mr Wade chief of district police po-lice in Pemberton Square was shot in the left arm and right shoulder by Richard Brennan a crank recently re-cently discharged from the city correctional cor-rectional institute Brennan was arrested Wades wounds are severe se-vere but dangerous The excitement over the shooting is tremendous Within a few minutes min-utes a great crowd blocked the street in the neighborhood of the chiefs office 15 Pemberton Square The news spread rapidly through the city and crowds gathered in front of the newspaper offices and nothing else was talked of The wound in the arm is worse than at first thought andthe surgeons do not deem it prudent to attempt to extract the ball There has been great loss of blood and the bullet lies dangerously near the artery in in the elbOw Brennan was a member mem-ber of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Massachu-setts Regiment and on three months leave of absence from the Soldiers Home at Togas Springs Maine A careful inquiry develops the fact that Brennan had in contem platidna number of tragedies After trying to find Dr Jelly he visited the cipy hall in search of Inspector Qerraughty Lynch whom he intended to kill Later he went to to the state house looking for someone some-one else the intended victims being be-ing absent in each case Chief Wade was the first man on the list whom ho found at his post The first seen of Breman by the city hall detectives de-tectives was about a year and a half ago when he called to get police assistance in one of his domestic troubles Seeing he was unbalanced Inspectors Gerraughty and Lynch humored him by a promise to put a large force at work soon after Ger raughty received a letter from him mailed at the Taunton Asylum He wrote that his principal trouble there was a telephone in his ear which was a great annoyance to him A week afterwards he walked into the city hall headquarters head-quarters Inspector Gerraugthy asked him i how he got out Oh ne said 1 got on to ineir racKet down there You see as long as you are not insane they will keep I you there but one day I thought I would change tack and when they asked me I said yes of course Im iI i insane or else why should I be I here The next day I got my discharge dis-charge He asked about his I case the officers were at work upon Gerraughty told him it was all fixed up and his enemies were disposed of The fellow believed it at first but presently pres-ently exclaimed No you havent finished it I hear the telephone in my ear how You must get it out Early in the morning Brennan visited the shop where he was once employed After reviewing his I fancied wrongs he said was going upon up-on the hill to fix a man up there Although he did not speak his name he referred to Governor Butler |