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Show . . . - - . . G.:J.;SalmonjNay Die as the Result W Knife Wound Over Heart, Alleged to Have Been Inflicted: by J. Gillespie; Trouble Arises During Drinkirig Spree ' Q. J. Salmon, a night employee . t the ' Eio GranHe roundhouse, win stabbed and probably fatally injured shortly after '10 o'clock this morning. J.' Gillespie is under arrest and being be-ing held. - - ' The stabbing took plc in Jim Heg-ny Heg-ny 'a' saloon at the corner of Fifth West and Second South street and : is said to hare been the result of a row over drinks. The knife,- which was a common pocket knife, entered ttie left side of Salmon about' an inch above the heart and is believed to have pierced the left lung. The wound is about half as inch across and-about an inch and- a half dPV - : : j . Victim Looks for Aasallaat. ; . . . ' 1 '-A few minutes, after the-stabbing. Patrolman Harris, who, was stationed at. the Rio Grande depor; was nolined and went at once to th saloon. Hei found Salmon out on the sidewalk look- ing for the man who had done the cutting. cut-ting. - Harris- at -once . telephoned- for the -patrol wagon and started out for Harris' assailant,' whom he located in a back room of a rooming house a block.1 ' south of the saloon. Gillespie reigns 81eep. . ' Gillespie was i apparently asleep ati the time of his-arrest and. was yery ' much under -.the - influence of liquor.' Both he and Salmon were brought tol the station, where the former was locked! up and .the latter-taken into, the hos-l ' tital ward to await the arrival of Dr.: Stewart. 1 While waiting the arrival of the phv-sician. phv-sician. Salmon claimed to suffer great pain when -.he tried .to take a full breath, indicating that the Inng had', been punctured.. As. soon as Dr. Stewart arrived he ordered the injured man) taken to St.' Mark's hospital,.wKere the; wound was dressed. . His injury, ma v! proyrt fatal. ,i-: . : r.. . Bida't lCBow af abbin"g.',, y.;v , Gillespie ' was asleep- live" ' minutes. after-4e yfaced in nia fcell as" the ' x . mult of-drink. When aroased bv an , officer nd a representative tvf-THE "' TELEGAM-he stated that he came to' Salt Like September .2L of the. present : ' vear tram his home in - Texas (what' part of the State he would not sav) and : that be was a carpenter ty trade, 23 ' -j-ears of age. ' . , ' Whea asked what led . np to the row he 'said he did not know. He aaid i that be did not know that he had ' . stabbed any one.. . , ... Patrolman Harris, . however, asserts that he found a pocket knife on Gilles-pit Gilles-pit which was covered with blood. When the conversation waa, finished Gillespie lay down on the cot again and was apparently asleep in less than a - " minute. ' No charge will be placed against htm until the exact condition of Salmon Sal-mon is known. ' - City Physician Stewart dressed ' the wound of Salmon at St. Mark's hospital. hospi-tal. -After the wound had, been dressed the man was sent home in. a. carriage.- |