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Show DINING CAR WAITER WOUNDED BY WOMAN Near Tragedy Follows Altercation Near Railroad Commissary at Ogden. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, April 6. llelvin Brien, 29 years of age, colored, a dining car waiter wait-er employed by the Oregon Short Line railroad, v.-as shot but not seriously injured in-jured by Florence Brien, also colored, following an altercation near the rail-mad rail-mad commissary early this afternoon. The bullet from the woman 's pistol struck Brien at the left fide of his lower lip. knocked out most-of the lower front teeth and passed ont through the right cheek. The waiter was taken to the ee hospital and the woman gave herself up to Patrolman O. H. Mohiman. According to the police, Mrs. Brien claims she is the wife of Brien. Until two months ago they hail lived together for three years without having been legally le-gally married, according to Brien. He then went to Chicago to attend the funeral fu-neral of a sister, and while away married mar-ried another woman. Having refused to again live rwith the woman here, they quarreled often during the past few weeks. About 2:30 o'clock this afternoon the woman who calls herself Mrs. Brien went to the commissary in an effort to obtain money from Brien. He is said to have picked up a heavy wrench and threatened to strike her, when she drew a .32-caliber pistol from her muff and fired one shot. The woman is looked in the city jail on au open charge, but the officers arc inclined to the belief that she acted in self-defense. ' |