Show GUN WIELDER IS HIMSElF VICTIM FACING SENTENCE IN BUTTE PULLS GUN IN COURT COURTROOM ROOM CAUSING PANIC First Shot Fired Point Blank at Fee Fed era oral eral Prohibition Officers Gunman Gun man May Die From Wound Butte Mont When Mont When called upon by Judge Pray in federal court to stand standup up for sentence after alter conviction on ona ona a liquor charge John OLeal OLeary O'Leary drew two wo revolvers and fired twelve shots In n the crowded courtroom lIe He opened opened opened open open- ed fire in the direction of four federal feder feder- al prohibition officers who were on one of the seats seata for spectators N. N E. E Baynham one of these officers rs dropped to the floor and made maae a flyIng flying fly fly- Ing tackle throwing OLeary O'Leary down while he was still shooting Eleven shots rhota were fired tired without hitting anyone anyone any any- one and the twelfth inflicted a wound in O'Leary's head which may maybe maybe maybe be fatal according to attending physicians physicians physicians phy phy- who sa say part of the bullet lodged in the brain More than 1100 persons were Inthe in inthe inthe the court Curt room at the time and a panic ensued Judge Pra Pray remained calmly on the bench though one of the bullets apparently deflected from th the ceiling fell to the floor in front of or his desk The first bullet fired left a mark on the marble wall about six inches above the head heads of ot the officers or- or who were in the line of fire The other shots went wild while OLeary O'Leary was struggling with Officers Baynham and Earl Koehler Baynham's Baynham's Baynham's Bayn- Bayn hams ham's fact was black with powder when the was over OLeal OLeary came to the federal building build ing lag in a rented automobile which he ordered to wait walt for him indicating according to the officers that he planned to escape after alter the shooting t for r which he had bad prepared by buying ammunition on the way I It i is the theory of the officers that OLeary O'Leary was accidentally shot while white scuffling with the officers ers whose action had prevented his bIs taking deliberate deliberate de de- liberate aim after alter the first shot Notes found in O'Leary's room when it was searched indicated he had planned the fusillade To Judge Pray he wrote I have bave no hardI hard hare I feelings against you Your instructions tione to the Jury jul were more than fair Today I will tl try to clean up the he docket for you The other note he had written and left in his room was addressed to his hla mother who is now in Los Angeles I |