Show PLUM ALLEY SHOOTiNG Man Comes Forth With a BulletMole in His Leg SAYS IT VMS AN ACCIDENT I Frank Ward the llan Shot Tolls a Story that the Police Do not Credit He Declares that the I Bullet Came from n Distance and S I was Fired by a Man Ho Had not I I Been Near But tho Officers Think I tho Gun was Fired in SelfDo J I fonso I 4 I t A pistol hot was hoard to ring out from Plum alley near the Second South exit about 10 oclock last night Offl Cell Wllllamtj und Simpson hearing the report unlch sounded like that of alai a-lai c caliber revolver ran quickly up f the alley No nlgns of a dlslurbanco j could bu found and the odlccrs naturally na-turally con < Jrjded that the shot was I connected with the celebration of Chi micRo NLW Years Some minutes later a man limped up to Hnck Driver Harry Quinn on Second South near Main street with the information in-formation that ho had been shot Ihrough the leg Quinn at once placed him In his vehicle and drove to police I idiuurleru AI time station the wounded man dismounted from thu carrIage and walked unassisted Inside An examination showed a bullet hole In the upper part of his left leg The mls silo had passed entirely through the llcshy part of time limb lliw trousers were nowderbnrned showing that time shot had been fired from close quarters Dr Wltcher was called and found Dial the hole was merely a bad llcsh wound and In I no way dangerous The wounded man was recognized as Frank Ward a laborer from Corcya camp whose record the police > wiy IH not of tin best According to his own story he waa walking slowly along Plum alley and was about Jlfty yards from the bark door of the Scandinavian saloon sa-loon when he sow a quick hash of fire heard n loud report and then felt L a burning pain shoot through his leg Ward said that the gun was llrcd by one uf a bunch of men standing In the back door oC the saloon but that they quickly disappeared lie says that he then made his way through the saloon and reported the occurrence to a pedestrian pedes-trian who piloted him to a hack 3lav hog had no trouble with any ono he claimed to hi at a loss lo know who shot him and insisted that It was an arcldcnl The police however believed differently and later Fergt Brown located n newsboy who claimed to have witnessed the affair The newsboy said that Ward and two other men were standing together suddenly ono of the two exclaimed You Ill shoot you If you do that then a pistol shot i rang out and Wards companions ran up the alley and disappeared Into Chinatown Ward who was somewhat under the Influence of liquor varied his story somewhat each time he repeated It but Insisted that he knew not who shot him Several officers who know Ward believe that he was In the act of attackIng at-tacking someone when shot and the police generally agree that circumstances circum-stances arc strongly In favor of that theory Ward was taken to the Holy j I Cross hospital |