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Show . BLOOD. The Activity of a Self-Cocker. The bell in the city hall tower had just struck the hour of eight last evening when three reports of pistol shots rang out on the night air, and several hundred people on East Temple Btroet rushed to the Head quarters saloon, whence the sound proceeded, to learn the cause of the shooting, while the police laid hold of Willum Kirby and marched him off to jail. One young man with hands clapped on his abdomen persisted in proelaimirg that he was shot and in a ftiir way of bidding adieu lo things mortal unless speedily attended by a surgeon; another clutched the calf of hs leg to sve if any of the limb was remaining, and a third pressed his thiyh in the region just visited by a I bullet; ivhite the whole crowd anxiously enquired. of the wounded and among themselves for information. No one appeared ap-peared to know aught of tho affair, except that three men had been shot, but why was a mystery. Surgeons had soon dressed the wounds, and aP.er the excitement had partially subsided an occasional ray of light gleamed upon the mystery. The facta m near as they could be gathered gath-ered are these : A number of men, among whom was Kirby, were in the Headquarters, some drinking and others looking on, when suddenly i Kirby slapped a stranger in the face, knocking him down. This was followed fol-lowed by the assaulted hurling a heavy tumbler against K's head, and a moment later K's self- j cocking pistol was "barking," and three bullets hunted and found blood. One of the balls went through the I calf of Jo Russell's leg, another bored a hole through the thigh of an ' old gentleman named Wubb, and the third went through the clothing of a youth ni'iued Watts, abraded tiie skin on the abdomen and then stopped. stop-ped. Kirby did all the shooting, and in each case mado it count, but always al-ways on a disinterested party. The man who struck Kirby on the head with a tumbler is a recent arrival from Montana. He asserts that he was not acquainted with Kirby and lias not the faintest idea as to the ia'ter's reason for striking him. Kirby's head is severely cut. The men who were Bhot are not seriously seri-ously hurt, the wounds only being in the flesh. |