Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-10 | Page 1 | Shots of Rum Crazed Negro Fatal to One

SHOTS Of RUM GRAZED CRAZED NEGRO TO ONE DENVER Colo Cob Jan A 10 A rum crazed negro holding a a. belching r re revolver ret vol velvet volver vel in each hand shot terror into a busy corner on larimer street I here sl shortly after 8 o'clock last night killing one ono person anti and critically critically critically cally wounding another Both men were shot through the stomach as a shower of lead poured in every direction from the dr drunken riken I two-gun two negro I If is believed he fired more than a score of shots be before before be- be I be-I fore his mad revelry of a quarter of an hour ended j Charles Bosworth the negro was was finally captured in a several blocks from the scene of the first fusillade of shots He lie had Jost ost one revolver In his flight from police but with the other held occupants of the billiard establishment at bay until two white whito men leaped upon and overpowered him When questioned at police headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters Bosworth disclaimed any knowledge of his reign o of terror He admitted however having consumed con con consumed a pint of moonshine whisky whisky whis ky Icy during the afternoon Edwin Young 70 died this mornIng morning morning morn- morn Ing from two bullet wounds In the stomach ch Rodrigo Martinez lies critically injured in the county hospital hos hos- I hos-I pital