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Show WESTERN WHISPERS, From the Herald we glean full particulars of the terrible tragedy that occurred in Salt Lake on the 8th inst. De. Bradford C. Snedaker, a well known physician of Salt Lake, on the morning of that day, seated himself in a car of the U. S. train, intending to spend a pleasant out in Little Cottonwood. Just as the train was about to start, Captain R. T. Smith, a prominent mining man, entered the car. Without a word being spoken by either, Snedaker drew a revolver and shot Smith, who fell forward. Officer Calder, entered the car and arrested Snedaker, and in company with conductor Jacobs, was in the act of leading him from the car, when Smith, who was thought to be breathing his last, rose to his feet, drew a pistol, placed it close to Snedaker's body and fired twice in quick succession. The latter was then carried from the car, laid on a truck, and within three minutes had breathed his last. Captain Smith soon after fainted and was conveyed to St Mary's Hospital, where he died at 9:15 that evening. The cause of the difficulty is a mystery, but it is rumored that Capt. Smith was engaged to a Miss Agnes Davidson, and that Dr. Snedaker, in the capacity of physician to the Davidson family, had induced Miss D. to come to his office on pretence of treating her for a malady from which she was suffering, and had drugged and outraged her. Snedaker's friends deny the truth of this rumor, and its truth is not yet established. |