Mistaken Identity Leads to Shooting on Grant Street Bridge

The residents on Grant street bridge in the vicinity of Plummer street were thrown into excitement yesterday morning about 1:30 o'clock by a row between two men at the entrance to the lodging house over Hodder's store, and the sudden sound of a pistol shot. Harry Woods and W. J. Bevis, the latter an employe of the Royal restaurant, were the principals in the strange affair. Bevis rooms over the store and says that about 1 o'clock he heard men talking under his window. He got up and threw a bucket of water at them. Things quieted down, but Bevis again heard voices and, jumping out of bed, he threw on his clothes and ran downstairs armed with a revolver. He found three men near the store, but as soon as he appeared they ran. Bevis then hunted up Mr. Hodder, proprietor of the store, and upon learning that the store had been burglarized in the past, consented to stand guard for a time. When he returned to the store he saw a man walk up to the side entrance, then sheer off and walk around the block before trying to enter. Bevis thought he had a burglar and grabbed the man by the arm. The man instead of submitting grabbed him. A struggle ensued in which Bevis drew his revolver and fired one shot, which only took effect in the floor. The shot called out the people in the house, and when some of them recognized the combatant as Harry Woods, who was known in the house, the trouble ended. The police placed Bevis under arrest for carrying concealed weapons.