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Show JOHNSTON'S-CHANCE JOHNSTON'S-CHANCE FOR LIFEJOOD Police Believe They Hare a Cine to Reason for the Shooting. Police Sergeant J. Henry Johnston, who u shot ia the abdomen early in the morning of July 4 by Elmer L. Dewey, who represents- himself aa a Pinkerioa detective, ia in a moat satis-faetory satis-faetory condition at St. Mark 'a hospital, hos-pital, and the chance for hit recovery are good. Bergeant Johnston 'a remarkable vitality vi-tality and unbounded good cheer are strong factora ia hia favor. Unless unforeseen un-foreseen complications arise within the next few hoars, his physician says bis , recovery will be hut a matter of time. The wounds in the intesetinee are healing satisfactorily and Sergeant Johnstoa'a temperature is lower today thaa it was yesterday, and his pulse u much better. The ontcome of his case - should be knowa definitely ia twenty-four twenty-four hoars. Sergeant Johnston is weak from the shock and loss of blood, but, la slowhr and utesdilv Improving, according ac-cording to Ir. H. B. Sprague, his physician. phy-sician. Until the outcome of Sergeant Johnston John-ston a rase is knowa no complaint will he filed against Dewey, his assailant, ia the event of Sergeant Johnston's recovery a complaint charging assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder will be filed. The maximum max-imum penalty fo'r thia crime ia tea years' imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison. The police department belter ee that it will have no trouble ia securing tbe conviction of Dewey, and believee that it has discovered what might have been a motive ia Dewey 'a mind for the shooting of the officer. James 0. Montgomery, tt West Fifth South street, says thst while he was la conversation with Dewey about tea days ago, in the smokehouse where Dewey waa employed as a cigar salesman, sales-man, Dewey declared that he was a Pinkerton detective, and that the police po-lice depsrtmest and the Pinkertons were at daggers' points. Dewey said that the police and the Pinkertons were working against each other, and ia alleged al-leged to have declared ia strong terms bis own feelings ia the matter. This is being investigated by tbe police, who are endeavoring to learn the basis for Dewey's alleged hatred of the pence pe-nce department. Dewey had often spokes in bitter terms ef the policemen police-men of the local department, and this feeling may have been fanned to a murderous flame by the liqnor which be drank on the afteraooa and ight of July 4. . , The police are investigating this matter, believing that it will furnish them with the motive that prompted . Dewey to shoot the officer. i ...Dw"? lh" t" prison. , His wife is ill in bed as a result of , the shooting and the excitement of the night of July 4, and denies herself her-self to all visitors. She has not sees Dewey since he waa transferred to the state prison for safe keeping. |