Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-08 | Page 1 | Triple Tragedy

terrIorTLE TRAGEDY A BLOODY AFFAIR l I j LAnAIA YESTERDAY arnligniuK of Young turtles the Tfoablc 1I m Wlio Hew Been Quite Intlustiflous in Fiddlier Ul IViven Birmingham la Match 7 News reached here today from Temorane Oak Limestone county of n triple tragedy which occurred there last evening as the result of which James and Martin Lent brothers are dead and Luke Coleman Is seriously wounded and the All were prominent young mon an best of friends until i few days ago When Coleman repeated a story which he claimed the Lenin boys had told him which was defamatory to the character of several of the highlyconnected young ladles in that neighborhood When friends of the young ladies heard the story they began to trace It down Coleman referred them to the Lents boys but the latter denied they had told < tey the story This caused baD blood between the young men and last evening when Coleman was returning home he was waylaid by the Lentz brothers They sprang out as he passed and one of them seized his horses bridle while the other struck him with a rock and shot him In the arm Coleman quickly returned the fire with a revolver James Dents was shot In the abdomen and Martin In the lungs Coleman then rode hurriedly I away > sending medical aid to the wounded wound-ed men but both have since died I Public sympathy i3eM4 to be with Coleman who claims selfdefense I