Badly Shot Up But Still Living

This is from the March 19, 1926 issue of the Pike County News.  Remember that this takes place during Prohibition.

BADLY SHOT UP BUT STILL LIVING

“Riddled with bullets but still living and evidencing strong chances for recovery, Will Leslie of Beaver Creek was brought here to the Methodist Hospital Monday after a pistol duel with Willie Miles.

“The trouble arose in a crap game about three o’clock Sunday morning, when both were decidedly intoxicated.  According to the story which Leslie told to G. D. Ryan who took him from the train to the hospital, they were trying to fix up a bet and could not agree, and Miles said, ‘We’ve both got guns, let’s shoot it out.’  At that moment Leslie dropped a ten dollar bill and stooped to pick it up and the other man started firing.  Bullets went through both hands and through two places in his leg, and one pierced his neck, went clear down one side, and came out between the seventh and eighth ribs.

“Bystanders got Leslie on the train and brought him up here, but the other man managed to elude the law and got away.”