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Show A DRUMMER'S FATE. An Evening With Two Giddy Girls Winds Up With a Bullet in His Back. 1 TOOK HIM FOR A BOLD BURGLAR. Charles Evana Taken for a Burglar and Shot Down by JL. II. Kuntz, a Salesman Sales-man The Shooter is Held Under Bonds. Lewis H. Kuntz, hitherto recognized as a quiet, inoffensive employee of the London Tailoring establishment, is today under bonds in the sum of f 2500, pending the result re-sult of a gun-shot wound inflicted by him upon Charles Evans, a San Francisco drummer, drum-mer, and an assault with intent to kil1 Arthur Smith, representing a steam fitting house at Denver. There has been a disposition on the part of all the principles in the tragic affair to keep the details from the public, and no one having at a late hour appeared to make complaint it is probable that the effort to hush it up is to be carried further. From all the accounts it is learned that fast evening even-ing Evans and Smith, accompanied by Mike Connor, a St. Paul theatrical man, wandered wan-dered over to Wonderland, and that while there made the acquaintance of two young girls who consented to accept Evans' and Connor's attentions as far as the front gate. Smith apparently objected to being given a cold, heartless shake on a night that was decidedly nipping even in Zion, and followed the giddy procession down West Temple. At the corner of Fifth South Smith concluded he would watch proceedings proceed-ings and stepped behind a tree. At this juncture Kuntz, who occupies a room at his employer's, issued from the dwelling and demanded of Smith what he was doing. Now Smith, it appears, was not prepared to repeat the romance of anight with two giddy nymphs to a perfect stranger, and curtly told him 60. On the other hand, Kuntz was out gunning for burglars, who had been infesting the locality, and finding Smith in this awkward position determined to tree him. He advanced, expressions of rather rath-er a profane natui e followed, Smith issued a challenge to light it out, and the men clutched, Kuntz drawing his revolver and placing it to hiB adversary's belly. Smith struck the pistol aud its death-dealing messenger mes-senger buried itself in the earth. Attracted by the noisy meeting, Evans and Connor hastened back. About this time Smith bad thrown off his antagonist and started to run followed by the others. In the retreat Evans collided with a tree and Kuntz, as he declares, yet under the impression that ue had run across a party of burglars fired. Evans fell to the ground and a crowd soon collected who reported the affair to the police po-lice "Tieadquarters, aud while Kuntz was taken to the station Evans was removed re-moved to the residence of Dr. Stand-art, Stand-art, where a bullet was extracted from his shoulder. The wound, though not necessarily alarming, will confine the drummer drum-mer to his room for some time. In the meantime Smith declares the assault as-sault from the first was simply an effort on the part of the shooter to solidify himself with the girls in the case. |