Man arrested on attempted murder charge

A local man is in the Hill County jail facing charges he tried to kill a man by jumping on his chest.

Elias Stump of Box Elder, born in 1982, was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning, being held on $250,000 bond on a charge of attempted deliberate homicide.

According to a court document, Hill County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call at 5:07 p.m. Wednesday in which the callers reported a disturbance near the 22nd Avenue rail crossing in Havre.

A BNSF Railway worker flagged down the deputies and showed them where the victim was, the document said. The man was lying on hi...