The Cheyenne Daily Leader

HE Wanted a Gun,

Wm. W. McDonald Coveted a Gun and

is Under Arrest,

Wm. W. McDonald has come to grief.

He attempted a little crooked work and

got left badly, as he now reclines in the

cooler. The facts connected with the

case are these:

He approached

the proprietor

of Bergeron's

gun store with

a proposition

to so larceny

in such a way

that Bergeron

in, set the

trap, and receive

a portion of

the swag. He

explained that he

knew of a man

who would do the

work.

The

proprietor

thought the

thing over this

time.

In the meantime Bob informed

the

police of the racket, and they

kept

strict watch over McDonald's move-

ments

Bob kept putting off

choice of an accomplice, until finally he

did secure a man against McDonald. The

man has only one arm and

seems

to

be badly in want of funds.

McDonald

trusted him once or twice, when the

gun proposition was made to the stran-

ger. The latter begged for time and

immediately notified the police. This

was on Friday evening. The police

advised him to carry out the plan and

they would keep watch close by and ar-

rest McDonald at the proper time.

Accordingly, on yesterday morning,

McDonald entered the store. Mr. Ber-

ger son was posted on the job and read-

ily accommodated McDonald with an

inspection of guns. McDonald placed

two of the best ones near the door. The

one-armed man carried out his part of

the programme by carrying off one of

the guns.

When McDonald saw that the weapon

had been removed, he abruptly declined

to make any purchases of Mr. Berger-

son and left the store.

In a short time the one armed man

met McDonald and informed him that

he had the gun in a corral up town and

wanted McDonald to go up and get it

and pay for it. The latter, however,

insisted that the one armed man should

take the gun to the barn on the corner

of Seventeenth and Hill streets.

This

was done. McDonald paid the money

in the presence of a third party, and

went up stairs to examine his prize. It

was then that the police arrested him.

McDonald was very indignant at the

idea of being arrested, and protested

bitterly of his innocence. He claimed

to be the son of a wealthy banker and

highly connected, etc., and it was a

disgrace to arrest him. But he had to

go all the same. He refused to enter

the cooler, but he went in after all, and

there he is.

McDonald was arraigned before Jus-

tice Bean and pleaded not guilty. In

default of $300 bail he was committed

to the cooler for a hearing on Mon-

day morning at 7 o'clock. He is a hard

case evidently, as a telegram was found

in his pocket directed to him at St.

Louis, and telling him to engage the

best counsel in the city to defend him.

Another such telegram is now in order.