Salt Lake Herald | 1899-09-05 | Page 4 | Lessons of the Incident

I LESSONS OF THE INCIDENT I Another tragedy was narrowly averted avert-ed Sunday evening The wouldbe murderer mur-derer was frustrated by the agency that prompted the attack He had imbibed enough bad whisky to make him mean I and murderous but too much to leave his hand steady for effective work A young man of excellent reputation came down from Ogden to get a taste of metropolitan existence and while j strolling with a soldier friend chanced upon three female acquaintances of the I I soldier They were strange to the young man from Ogden but he stopped I received an introduction and was about to make a remark concerning the weather when an exconvict crazed with liquor rushed up and fired a revolver re-volver in the face of the Ogden man The powder struck him full and fair I the bullet went after a lock of his hair but couldnt find any the women screamed the men scattered and then a policeman happened along and gathered in the professional assassin I was an experience from which all parties ought to learn a lesson and society I so-ciety at large should be able to benefit In the first place it remove from the streets a dangerous character who escaped es-caped a portion of a merited sentence I some time ago by the intervention of the pardoning power I should teach young women who roam the streets to avoid entangling alliances with men afflicted af-flicted with the jealous mania I should cause young men to beware of strange women It gave the soldier a fearful example of the effect of intoxicants intoxi-cants upon the aim and demonstrated to the young man from Ogden that it isnt 1 necessary to go to New York or San Francisco for genuine metropolitan excitement tan Ecitement