Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-08-24 | Page 10 | Guards Reputation for Work by Hitting Rival with Pistol

GUARDS I IfOR fOR OR WORK BY HITTING ML RIV At m WITH PISTOL Incensed because other oIlier laborers It Is iH said Insisted the they doing as ns ranch mud work as 8 he ho was was If it not more after he lie lint lard hal taken them to task for tor baling B B. B Brooks employed by P P. 1 r Myran as an UI cl engineer tin un a t donkey engine m at Ninth East Kast I t street and Harvard avenue a heat beat Gh al Eklund 1 also employed by Moran on the street Improvement work OV over r the tue head with wih a heavy old fashioned revolver re this morning mornIn morn morn- In ing and then fir fir-cd u a 1 shot hot ut at the tho man tho the el bulet bullet grazing Eklund's left arm Brooks then dashed west on Harvard avenue and up to this afternoon had eluded the tire police pollee who are arc seeking peking him Shortly before beCore this morning tire tho police pollee were summoned to Ninth J street stroet and Harvard avenue by the tire report that a 1 man had b been en Injured In a shootIng shoot shoot- In Ing scrap crp and Jailer Tom am and Motorcycle Policeman V. Y V. W. re responded ro- ro Apon ld In the tho police auto They found foum Eklund kund bleeding profusely from several severa cuts In the head where Brooks had beaten beat r him with his revolver and blood was flowing from a I slight gash sp In Ip his loft left arm an whore a n bullet bulot had hod penetrated thc tho coat ane and nl grazed the skin Eklund and other witnesses said Brooks had taunted tho th men because of their In- In as a ho un said to do as much work an as anlie asie al lie he ie did Eklund resented relented this assertion md and nn angrily r replied that ho he did dil more mor work any day than Brooks could think or DC doln doing Tho The engineer became an angry r rushed over 01 0 to a bag containing his kit took rook from It a large old fashioned revolver vcr ver and started to heat beat Eklund over o the hell head Then Thon he fired a a shot at tire the tie man and nd dashed aWn away Eklund although painfully cut about the heat head li Is If not In a a serious condition Brooks will wf be charged with wih assault with wih Intent to t murder this afternoon