| Show THAT SHOOTING BEE Seeley and Morris are Both in ii Critical Condition IAN I-AN INTERVIEW WITH HALL He Describes the Fight and Claims to Have Acted Throughout on the Defense L S Morris and W J Seeley the two victims of the terrible shooting affair which occurred at North Salt Lake on Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon were both very low yesterday yester-day and Drs Wiloox and Root have but slicht hopes of their recovery T H Hall who shot Seeley is still confined con-fined in the city jail and a HERALD reporter re-porter visited him at his cell yesterday and obtained his statement of the affair He said hI returned to my place in North Salt Lake on Tuesday after making a trip to Bullerville and yesterday afternoon after-noon while I was standing in front of my tent with my wife Seeley commenced abusing the men who were at work digging alditch and he made threats I told him to keep quiet and he then commenced to abuse me using language too vile to repeat I called his attention tone to-ne fact that my wife was present and asked him to quit talking so As he peristed I started toward him and hebrew he-brew himself into a fighting attitude I knocke him down twice and he then subsided sub-sided and I sat down on the side of the ditch Then his wife came out of the house with her hands under her apron and went up to Seeley I think she handed him a revolver for a moment later he leveled his pistol at me and pulled the trigger but the cartridge missed fire Ho inmeJiately Milled again and tho shot struck L S Morris a workman who was standing by the ditch He cried My God i am shot and dropped I saw my position was getting get-ting pretty desperate and ran into the tent and got my rillo As I came out Seeley rested his pistol ou bis vifes shouder and fired two more shots at me neither of which took effect I then started after my horse which was grazing near by but when I had gone about fifty yards I looker around and saw that Seeley had dropped to his knee and was taking aim at me Fearing I might get hit this I time I throw up my rifle and fired Seeley fell over backwards but at once got up By this time I had caught my horse and at I once came down to the city and gave myself elf up Seeley was the aggressor all the way through and I only fired when I bought my own life was in danger Hall is twentynine years of age und was born in this city He is married and has two children Soeley came here from the east last fall and has been engaged chiefly in horse trailIng trail-ing He too is married Morris wno came here from Denver recently re-cently is unmarried He was brought to tho city on Wednesday iiight and taken to the hospital but Seeley is still at his homo in North Salt Lake |
