Show GERKE GETS A LETTER Fixing tho blame for shooting on an officer last night chief browning received a telegram from gus gerke of milwaukee asking the chief that ha notify nick gerke of the death of his younger brother john in the bennington dis aster gus perke who sent telegram did not know of the shooting of his brother while the latter was in the railroad yards one morning last week and in replying to the telegram the chief notified the former of the affair this morning another telegram was received containing money for the transportation of the wounded man to hs home and he will leave tor the east this afternoon A letter was received yesterday that may throw some light on the shooting affray the letter which was from one of the men with whom gerke was traveling iv the time of the shooting states that the shot was fired by one of the railroad detectives who had started to arrest trie men abent the railroad yards but that as soon as he discovered that he had shot a man he let the others go and fixed it with the crew of a west bound train for the men to ride out of town whether this statement Is true or not the police can not say the railroad officers deny that they even shot at a man |