| Show TO OVER A LA WAIT sad N I 1 hoo 11 1 1 8 I 1 at er vi I 1 I 1 e I 1 MORONI SKEEN SHOT joseph mooney fired three balls into his body last evening As the result of af a long at andin feud caused by a law snit enit joseph mooney last night shot three times and seriously if not fatally wounded momoji moro ii skeen of plain city the readers of the press will remember the suit planted and prosecuted by moroni skeen against william skeen and joseph mooney Aloo aey t ta recover damages alleged to haye been Bust sustained amod by the former on account of the tha latter turning oft off the water from his bis farm and growing crons after the suit kad had been passed up upon on bv a jury in the fourth district court judgment had been given to moroni skeen and an appeal taken by the defendants had been disposed of in the supreme court a against the appellants an equity case was waa institute dand tried before judge miner and this too went in favor of moroni skeen the judgment has been paid although skeen and mooney declare that it was fraudulent in all it has cost them oyer the thoughts on that suit and its final outcome have so BO preyed upon mooneye mind that it has evidently become da ranged upon this matter the continual brooding over the case has made him peculiar in several respects and when last night he met face to face on the slaterville Slat erville road near his own home the man who he thinks has hag wronged him he must have become temporarily at least unbalanced for he be drew his hia revolver a 44 caliber smith weston and fired at skeen the latter was driving in a wagon and was headed beaded for home having been to the city on buz business iness mooney called tor for him to stop but instead of doing GO bo skeen whipped up in an attempt to pass the old man the first shot had bad grazed the back of head bead and at the re port the team started to run away mooney opened fire azain this time selecting one of the horses as his victim and ana croppe d the animal in its tracks this of course stopped the team and skeen was at the mercy of his enemy just how he be came to fall from the wagon is uni unknown but it must be due to the force of the ballets two more of which mooney sent into body one in the shoulder and the other in the thigh two of the six cartridges in the revolver refused to explode and to this doubtless skeen owes his hia life As soon as 83 his bis victim struck the ground the old man rushed up to him with the evident intention of finishing nis his work and what caused him to desist is unknown except for his own statement which is to the effect that skeen begged for or his life on account of his bis children ogden standard |
