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Show 444'4"44--T-r HOLY CROSS PATIENT : MAY BE TRAIN ROBBER WilHam Wilson Shot Twice and Arrested at Mil-ford Mil-ford as One of the Calientes HoId-Ups Does Not Give a Clear Account of Himself. It ly to be hoped, that William "Wilson, "Wil-son, thc man arrested at Mllford Friday Fri-day night, !s- one of the bandits who held up the Greek' and Italian laborers at Calientes, for. if not he Ls suffering a fearful and unmerited' punishment. lie now occupies a cot at the Holy Cross hospital", with two bullet holes in his body and first rate chunces for losing los-ing hla right arm. He was brought In from Mllford yesterday yes-terday morning on a col, In the custody cus-tody of a deputy sheriff, who had him vonveyed at once to thc hospital. Tho wound fn his arm, inflicted by Marshal Hickman of Mllford. is the most painful pain-ful and dangcrouE, although thc butlct in his left hip Is no slight,' matter. Dr. Root, who was called to attend the patient, pa-tient, has not yet made a thorough examination, ex-amination, but said last night that the ! arm might have to come off. HOW WTbSON WAS SHOT. Wilson Is cne of two men who boarded board-ed a Sun Pedro train at Modcna Friday Fri-day night. The conductor telegraphed to Mllford that the men answered tlx; description of the CalicntcH hold-ups and when a stop was mado at Mllford. Marshal nickmnn and Deputy Sheriff Stoddard attempted to put the men under arrest It is alleged that Wilson made a move for a gun. Anyway the marshal shot hlin above the elbow The passengers mistook the olllcers for hold-upn. and a general fualludo followed, fol-lowed, ln which the olilcer and ono or two passengers were slightly wounded. Taking advantage of the excitement, the two suspicious characters disappeared. disap-peared. A short time nfterward Wilson appeared ap-peared at the railway pumphousc and surrendered. He first gave his name ns Moore and claimed to be a airanger in that part of the country. HE TELLS HIS STORY. When seen at thc hospital last evening even-ing thc wounded man gave his name as Wilson and claimed that he was the victim of a serious mistake. "I do not know why he shot me." he declared. "I did not oftcr tho least resistance. re-sistance. I was walking along he aisle when thc marshal whirled me around, put a gun under my nose and told me to throw up my hands. I put up both hands and did not make a move of any kind. Then he shot nic. I did not have a gun on mc at all and If I had had one I would have had no chance to use It, for thc marshal's pistol was within six inches of my face. I "Then tho Italians in the car began (o shoot and jump out of the car, and T made a run for It. I did not know but what I was up against a hold-up, because be-cause thc officer did not have on a uniform uni-form and all, he said to me was,-'Throw up your hands!' "As I went out the door of lho car another bullet took me In the hip. It must have been tired by ono of the Italians, Ital-ians, for it was not like that In my arm, to Judge from thu nlze of thc wound. "I was rather da.ed at first and wandered wan-dered nround In that condition. There was a croud around the marshal and I did not know but what he had been (Continued on Page 8.) HOLY CROSS PATIENT MAY RESTRAIN ROBBER (Continued pTom' Page 1.) killed. I knew," continued the prisoner, prison-er, forgetting his previous Btatement that he did not know the man was an officer, "how a crowd Is likely to feel when an officer Is killed and I was afraid that if I gave myself up they might lynch me. I wandered around for about three hours and got so weak that I could not stand. Then I gave the man at the pump station; $15 to go for help." CLAIMS AN ALIBI. Wilson denies all knowledge of the Callentes hold-up. but his explanations are not very convincing. When asked where he was at the time of the holdup, hold-up, he said: "We were at De La Mar the next morning. That is twenty-eight miles from Callentes and the hold-up was late at night." "Who was the man with you on the train?" "I was alone." "But you said 'we' were at De La Mar." "Oh, that was another fellow who left me at Callentes." Wilson went on to say that he was a stationary engineer, but had been freighting between Moapa and Callentes. Callen-tes. He said he knew a number of people peo-ple in Salt Lake and mentioned Joseph Enzerispcrger of the Oxford saloon. All his p-aople. he says, nro back Ea?t-When Ea?t-When told that the doctor would do everything possible to relieve his pain, he said; "I hope he does. He will be well paid for it." This remark, coupled with his statement state-ment that he gave ?15 to the pump man, would show that he Is not lacking for funds. I His appearance Is not prepossessing. Hjy hair is close-cropped and thin on top of his head. His eyes arc a blue-gray blue-gray and his chin Is covered with a few days growth of black beard. His hands are slender and soft the right kind of hands for an engineer, but not the sort one would look for or. a teamster. team-ster. The man confesses that he Is addicted ad-dicted to the use of morphine and used every effort to get some, but the physician physi-cian forbade any opiates until the administration ad-ministration of an anaesthetic. Mr. Enzensperger does not know Wilson Wil-son under that name, but says the man may know him. A dispatch from Milford sajs that a party started out from that place Saturday Sat-urday morning In pursuit of the other supposed robber, but did not catch him. He is said to be heavily armed and going go-ing north on foot. It Is expected that he will make a desperate resistance If intercepted. |
