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Show ill THE SIDE. ck,t Receives a Probably Fatal frelD a Pistol in the Hands 0'f Jolin Snelson. .-gBLOCD EBBING AWAY. sj0ftteB.G.W. CarEepair icots a Oar Inspector About Employing Halp. approached, Locket retired from the i sidewalk to the Armstrong building, which is in the course, of erectiou ut the corner of Fourth West and Second Sec-ond South streets. When Snelson arrived at the corner Locket hiirled a rock at him. Suelson turned and Locket turned to pick up another rock. Before Locket could rise Suelson drew a revolver and iircd twice at Locket, wi;h tho deadly result already al-ready known. Ttie Prisoner' Story, The prisoner was found squatted in a corner of his cell to which he had retreated re-treated and was gazing suspiciously at the bunk from which he had been driven by its Mood-sucking inhabitants when the reporter was admitted. "1 wish you would look after that ,nt,,in raPid succession at ; ( ovlock today, awoke tho ,be corner of Fourth West ' d Sol,tli streets and Wakled another soul into the d before its time. . as can lo learuexl at this Ls are a follows: An elec-1S elec-1S proceeding along Second ,,d Main, and when near the ' of Fourth West two shots nl to ring out with startling s aud a man was ,imllil,g in the mid-r0nd mid-r0nd South street toward He was holding his hands to ucn as one in great pain. An-, An-, followed close behind the Ii:ib and when the car stop-od stop-od Motorman Thomas iu plac-pon plac-pon a seat in the car. wv ME TO THE HOSPITAt.," bed," said ho to the jailer. "I was about to go to sleep when those bugs pestered mo so that I couldn't." From this admission it becarao evident evi-dent that the prisoner felt little alarm as to his ultimate acquittal aud viudi-eation. viudi-eation. "I would rather not pay anything about the affair," said Snelson in reply to the reporter's tender of the Tim Times' columns, "until I see my attorney." at-torney." He reconsidered, however, upon the assurance that nothing would be done to prejudice his case and said: "I have been employed in the car department of the Denver & Kio Grande for live months and know nothing of Locket's animosity ani-mosity towards me until Saturday afternoon. after-noon. At that time ho came up to mo with a wrench iu his hand and asked me what in h--l I had been meddling with his affairs for. I denied having ever interfered with him but he lilted the wrench aud brought it down with all his might on my arm. lie cut a hole in it big enough iu which to bury your thumb and then went away. I didn't k-Miw he was about today until he came up behind me at . the warehouse aud sunt a stone whizzing by my ear. I turued and saw him stooping for another, an-other, when I thought it was time to defend myself. That's all theVe is to my side of the story, which I can prove by a number of witnesses. I believe I was justilied in all that I did." "And vou had no altercation prior to ;he wounded man, as he gasp-vith gasp-vith and his life's blood oozed a little, round hole in his hip i.iiioncd seat aud thence to the -1 take you to the hospital,' mas. "but I will take you to i.;et." .nan who was with the party shot," said Thomas to a Times italive, "told me to see that tho ,! man was properly taken care hat the superintendent of the ulc Western would settle for it. -e got to Main street," continued -I summoned Ollicer Jenney i the rapidly sinking man con-i con-i the city jail, I believe." Hfi.i representative hurried to jail, where a sad sight met his la the floor, in one of the rooms, ia of about thirty-live years of lis hands were tightly clinched hotly drawn iuto a terrible con-Heavy con-Heavy beads of sweat stood s forehead and great groans of jtceil their way through his set his assault upon you on Saturday last?" "None whatever. It was tho tirst and only notice I ever had of any ill-feeling ill-feeling on his part towards mo." "Aud you had none towards him?" "Not a particle. I never have a ditH-culty ditH-culty with any one as for that, because it takes all my time to look after my wife and family." Snelson is to all appearance a very quiet citizen with more than average intelligence, and tells a story that, is borne out bv tho general particulars. i'lysicians were in attendance, ilerer's head lay uppnthc arm of .or of the hall and his body i;pon a mattress in the center of m. MY god! watkh! watek!" tho victim of a revolver's deadly i,'it. A few drops of water were through his teeth. "I am freez-'.jverinc freez-'.jverinc up," was the next thing 1. A heavy blanket was placed jo form of the wounded man. .xtreniely hard exertion The representative elicited from the Iui man that his name was shoeket. He lived at 437 West mth street, lie was unmarried i id been in Salt Lake eighteen He has a brother and retailing reta-iling in Sugar House ward, but lo a difference in religious he has not been i e with them. His Sugar House 'os and friends were Mormons, egard to the shooting Locket said : been employed at the Rio Grande rn shops, as car inspector, and . n Saturday last he had a row a man by the name of John u, foreman of the car shops over right of hiring men " shops. Locket, according to Noa of the affair was proceeding Second South street when he cu-'ii'il cu-'ii'il Snelson and another man. words passed between Locket nelson when the latter pulled a from his pocket and fired twice t't. One of the balls penetrated A Locket's coat on the left side of , aiMitit ten inches below tne arm The other bullet flew wido of its 'hret, and before Suelson could ?in I.oeket started to run toward roaeiiing electric car aud Snelson Uowu Fourth West street. At he was met at the gate by a !aii to whom he gave his pistol tii proceeded to tho county jail livered himself up to tho officers. ;et is a man of medium stature, 'lark hair, recently cut, a little 'i'listaelie and a ruddy complexion, frlit grey eyes. Ho. was dressed -'lit sniped pair of pants, light aud white shirt. He had ;m vest, and his shirt lhe left sido was saturated .looil. 's,)n, the man who did the shoot-ras shoot-ras accompanied by Tom Priest. ' claimed the shooting of Locket son to have been in self-defense, inflicted a wound upon Snel- "tfst, and the latter to protect his "'e,v a pistol and fired, with the re- above stated. tins hour 4:30 r. m. the condi- "j Locket is precarious and it is '"1 if his life does not set in etern--ht eve the last rays of today's sun withdrawn from the mountain - and are buried behind the shad-Jf shad-Jf nocturne's shades. wkst'i Ante-Mortem Statement. "is ante-mortem statement Locket that on Saturday last he had a ; with Snelson; that the diffi-' diffi-' as renewed today on Second ; "car the corner of Fourth West. n drew a pistol aDd threatened ot Locket. The latter picked up k and then Snelson shot him. Another Version. aa Snelson is foreman of the Kio "de Western repair shops. In his as foreman he had the hiring for the work of the shops. '"'es Locket is car inspector, also Rio Grande Western car shops, ; the difficulty between the men r mt of the prerogative of the two l .t0 employ and discharge the men ,'rl to do the work in the shops. L'a0 o'clock today Snelson was ? down Second South street Pt stood on the corner of Second ' anl Fourth west. As Snelson |