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Show SHOT IN liiE BHKAS'i. A Pospera'.a and Protihly Fatal Encounter En-counter With Eiile aud Sir Shooter ou the North Sida, W. J. 8EELEY. THE AGGaESSO Receives a Wound in thu Bosnm, WLi!i L- L. Morris Gots a Bullet in the Gruia A duel with six shooter and rill. In spot on tho north si.la opposite the old smeltiir about 4 o'clock yns'erday afternoon af-ternoon resulted In the probable fainl wounding of W. J. Seeley, aboi4. trader, and L. L. Morris, a laborer, while T. II. Hall, at whom Seeley had dispatched bis messengers of death, oi-capud oi-capud unhurt. The riotous affair rose lila a storm from a cloudless sky. Morris and a number of rut a were engaged in the construction construc-tion of a ditch in the locality w'uen Sen-ley Sen-ley issued from his dwelling and ordered or-dered the workman to stop, following it up with a torrent of anathemas ana obscenity that brought out HiUl, who with his wife and children were in a tent hard by. Hall a.ked him to dneist whereupon Soeley directed his pro. fanity at him. Seeley was knocked down but got up suarling and repeating his attack was sent to grass a second lime. At tins juncture Airs. Seeley joined her husband, her hand clutching something in the folds of her dress. Another instant aud a gun flashed in the hand of Seeley, whiia Morris, who was Blinding in the ditch, , fell witli a groan. Seeley then turned the weupou oq Hall who retreated, while two bullets were whizzing by his head, aud entered his tent. He came, forth this time with an ugly Winchester in bis band, and auothor bullet bul-let shot by his head at which ho wheeled and returned fira. Seeley who was in a stamping postura fell back, and recovering stood erect, while his wife removed him to this dwelling. Hall, who had no more cat I- ( ridges, thou niounlod his horse and coming to town surrendered himself, .while Doctors Wilcox and Ucot weia summoned to take charge of th wouuded. It was ascertained that the) bullet from Hull's ritlo bad torn through Seeley's arm, and passing on entered the left breast, perforating the Iudot and ooming out under the left shoulder-blade. Morri was shot in the groin, the bullet goinijf . - F upward and inflicting awonndfroiii which he will scarcely reeovtsr. Thsj . surgoons decline to expecss-aa opinioa -, . j . f' indeed, it is one of thfae CiUes $V t ' ' tiu e is required to ApfU,mf'" f w -1 A messunecr arrlrctVat.jioU " I quarwa to,: ii.rm-si--ai. , , , (?.j'r.sr--. ! ed Slorris4 condiiioo as unchinglo. J i Ho is still suffering intense pain. A message from his surgeon anuounres that beeluy was 'resting easy at that hour. Tho interviewer saw Hall down at the city jail where ho is confined pending pend-ing the result of his victim's injuria He recited a straightforward narrativi s ating almost iu detail what the witnesses wit-nesses have said. Ho admits the knoc c dovu end the shooting after fourslicts had b.:n fired fit him, the thirJ from si re.t on Mr. Saoley's t-houidcf while Seeley w as taking deliberate air! with his revolver clutched iu bet i bunds aud his elbows resting on l i knees w hen the fatal notes of ihe ri.i j wi re heard aud his a-saiiaut went over with probably a fatal wound throu;' i his body. lie prenouuees thu iiiurtirr-ous iiiurtirr-ous Rssult ou Morris as cowardly no I uuprovoked and while betraying deo regret over tne trsitic aiTair, fc-'ls th: t ho was justitied in thu part ho wm forced to enact iu it. He has a wife aud two children, an I was born in Utah. Seeley comes frc: i some piece in the eastern country whin Morris hails I'roio Colorado. Public sentiment oianuirf fur the rr-quiltal rr-quiltal of Hull whose Irienos hava r;-liod r;-liod and are olTeriug bonds in any reasonable amount. A German who w:is slated asJohti Smith was arrested on complaint of Hall, who charges him with being accessory ac-cessory to the shooting and is now held in jail. The services of Attorney Glenn hava been secured by both prisoners. |