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Show Hill II sEiiy lip Bullet Breaks No Bones in Passage Through Fore arm of Senator - W A SHIXOTOJCMa rch. For mer Senator Charles B. Henderson of Elko. Nev., waa ahot and slightly wounded In the forearm today by Charles A. I tlrock of Takoma I'ark. Md, but a former realdent of Reno, N.y. The 1 shooting occurred In Mr. Hendersons! office, where he was cleaning up some loose enda after hla retirement yesterday. yes-terday. (irock was disarmed by men attracted at-tracted by the shot and the screams of stenographers who ran from the of-I of-I flee and was turned over to the po- lice. Mr. Henderson said that the man had been treated for mental trouble. PRISONERS' STORY. According to the police, the prisoner pris-oner told them thst twenty-five yeara ago Mr. Henderson was counsel for him In a suit Involving land and that tho shooting grew out of that. The bullet passed through the flesh of the former senstnrs forearm. Senator Sen-ator Ball of Delaware, who la a physician, phy-sician, dressed the wound and then sent the patient to a hospital for an X-ray examination. This waa aald to have disclosed no broken nones and' Mr. Henderson went to his home, where he was reported resting easily. RENO. Nev.. March (.Charles r. Orock. assailant of former Senator II. Henderson at Washington this morning, waa known In Jko snd Reno twenty years sgo as an easily excitable character. He had employed Henderson and Judge J. S. Brown of Reno sa atlomeya In a ault over land In Elko county. The suit was decided against him In the Elko district dis-trict court. Orock employed attorney, attor-ney, here In seeking to have his rase retried, and It Is stated that one Reno attorney kept a pistol In his desk to protect himself from attack by Crock. |