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Show HPT. HUN SHOTJf NEGRO Would-be Assassin Supposed to tie One of Discharged Soldiers of 25th. Captain Is to be Courtmartialed for Failure to Exercise Due Diligence in Preventing Rioting In I Brownsville Last August. El Reno, Ok. Cnptaln Edgar B. Macklln, ot company C, Twenty-fifth' United States infnntry, was shot twlco and dangerously wounded Friday night by a negro, nnd heller is ox-pressed ox-pressed here that It wub ono of the members of tho troops discharged by President Roosevelt for participation In tho Brownsville riots. Bloodhounds will bo brought here from Oklahoma City to track the assassin. Tho shooting occurred at the officer's offi-cer's qunrters at Fort Iteno. Captain Macklln and his wire were Boated at tho dinner tnble when somo ono tried to gain entrance at tho front door. Captain Macklln asked, "Who is H thero?" 1 Tho icply enme, "Ihavo a message i for you." I "Como around to tho linpit ilnnr" -v I said Captain Macklln. A negro, part of his face covered by a mask, entered with tho command, "Throw up your hands and glvo mo nil the money you've got." Without giving Captain Mncklln time to reply ho fired twice, then fled Into the darkness. Ono bullet entered Captain Macklln's abdomen, tho second sec-ond striking him In the Jaw. Tho surgeon sur-geon says that while his wounds nre dangorous, they aro not necessarily fatal. Captain Macklln is nbout thirty years old and is a son of Colonel Macklln, who recently retired with the pay of a brigadier general. On December 1 tho secretary ot war, upon recommendation of the genornl staff, ordered tho trial by I court-martial or Captain Macklln un- 1 der tho sixty-second article ot war, 1 ror "conduct to tho prejudice or good 1 order and discipline," In railing to ex- 1 erciso duo diligence In preventing tho occurrence of rioting at Brownsville 1 last August. 1 |