Deseret Evening News | 1901-07-16 | Page 3 | Shot at German Officer

SHOT AT 1 OP I Hail find Hidden Over O r American Sentry Who Turned on ott Him Washington July 15 The last hast mall mail from tho the east enst has hal brought n a detailed newspaper account of ot the shooting at nt fray fra at al Fekin which has ha l resulted re In a u aGerman aGerman German claim against tho the Pulled States The account which appears In Ina ina a Japanese newspaper states that an American entry centry had been Iteen posted at atthe atthe atthe the western wee tern extremity of ot Legation II I street clone to where the tho new Ameri Amerl American can legation Is building That portion of ot the legation 1 gatlon street was b bing Ing neat macadamized and anI rolled de dehall had hall been put up and Major had posted a n t sentry on the thu spot to 10 warn persons not to ride over oer the newly made road roat pedestrians only being al at allowed allowed lowed to traverse It ItA ItA ItA A German officer capie riding along knocked down both the sentry anti barricade anti galloped across acro s the for fr forbidden hidden bidden route The Thc sentry scrambled to his feet and sent ent a n shot hot after the om oil ocr but mlA ed ell and the bullet lodged In the thin leg of at n a German sentry stand standIng log Ing on duty halt half way down Ilon the street streel Tho The newspaper M states that the Ameri merl American can was wall sentenced to one months Im Imprisonment and lined a months pay pa presumably for tor hitting the wrong man