Show I ERNEST H El GREENE OREENE TEllS OF SHOOTING Young Mining Operator Shot by byA A Bully in Nevada Mining Camp DESERT SHARKS COWARDICE Injured Man Iun Rocs Goes En Eo East t to New C York 1 ork On the tire Noon Train Today S After n II Rest nest H Greene who ho was WIS shot and almost fatally wounded by 13 b T J Fitzpatrick near Nipton California on onDee Dee Dec 3 arrived In Salt Lake City with his wife formerly Jack Jaek McCune Friday Frida afternoon and left for New Now NewYork NewYork York at 1115 today Mr Greene Greeno has hag a n marvellous reco cry ery from rom what might easily have been a fatal wound He is now able to walk wIlk about but Is still sUII somewhat weak from Cram the effects of or tho tire shot After Alter being mado mudo a target Mr Ir Greene Greeno was 11 taken to the tIre camp at Nipton where two mountain physicians ex extracted extracted extracted the tire bullet and he lie then con continued continued continued on to Lo Los Angeles where he spent several weeks In tho the California hospital Fitzpatrick l I Is j known through the tho mountains as an a coward and a bully said Mr Greene Oreene this morning lIe Ho shot mo me without provocation while I r was unarmed and entirely unsuspecting unsuspecting any belligerent Intentions on I his hiM part JIB pa rt I J had Just arrived In III the tho thoI I camp and was making maling u It tour of oC in inspection I had passed some of oc the thebo boys bo s and spoke to them Fitzpatrick and arid his wife drove up and demanded an audience with me I talked with them and Invited thorn th m In tho the house housel Fitzpatrick l said ho wanted mo to settle bottle his bill He had been working as 11 a n teamster for my nis m foreman Coreman Mr Ir Dodge and I told him he hy h better bett r settle with Dodge Mrs 1 Fitzpatrick then took tool a hand and If 11 she did not give ghe Dodge a tongue lashing no one ono Over ever did I had heard men curse and anil swear before but no man ever swore as ac Mrs Fitzpatrick did lid at my foreman I r remonstrated with her hel saying Ing that that was no place to give voice oleo to such talk and she said lId ho was all allor of or that I said perhaps so but I do donot donot donot not care to hear you ou use such lan language guage here hele I told her I would call Mr Dodge In and at that FitzpatrIck came up tip and said I 1 want you to set settle settle settie tle tie with me right here I said lean Ican I enn not settle settie with you ou I dont know any anything an thing tiring about It STORY OF THE SHOOTING Fitzpatrick then whipped out a n abig abig I big revolver and said Well Ill take tako It t out of ot you and with that he fired Tho The ball struck me In the tire abdomen and lodged in tho the thick part of at my m back I foil toll and suppose Fitzpatrick was going to shoot me mo again when I heard Mrs Fitzpatrick say sa Youve killed him you OU dont need to shoot him again I asked them to got get me mo some help but they left lert w pay payIng Ing any an to me mc I dragged myself up to tho the mill yards ards away and finally got ot help heip from rom the tire men They at once took me rae to Nipton 2 21 miles n les away awa whore where two doctors cut Into my back for the bullet They admin administered adminIstered cocaine but did not wait watt until it had lad taken effect and when lrea they cut Into my m back It was WM Just like hIke cutting Into raw ran 13 flesh It hurt some but tho the got the bullet and I r was sent on to the hospital at Los Angeles That man ama Fitzpatrick is a bad one Ho is a desert shark a n high grader and one of tho tire class which infests eve every every every ry mining camp with tire tho object of at liv living living Iv IvIns ing Ins without wt ut work pr He Is I tine the t descend s ant 01 or me trio Old mu Australian criminal ex cx exiles C Clies lies iles and Is absolutely unscrupulous His wife has a worse reputation among the hills than he has Fitzpatrick la is laIn In tho the San Bernardino jail charged with assault with intent to commit murder His preliminary hearing will willbe willbe willbe be held in a fow few days das when he will be behold behold hold for tor trial I shall appear at the tiro main trial when notified by b the Call Cali California fornia tornia courts NEVER STRUCK WOMAN Fitzpatrick and his wife have been concocting stories about tho the affair one oneat of at which Is that I struck tho tire woman It Is absolutely false I did not strike tho the woman ivonian unless It was that after Fitzpatrick had shot me I reached out my m hand to reach some support to hell help hellm myself m up and may ma have havo placed my hand on her het shoulder In an air attempt to hold myself up I lid dId not strike her herand herand and had no rio struggle with tho tire man The Tho ruffian simply shot me mc and an I fell Meanwhile Mrs Greene and her mother Mrs A W Yo McCune and my are aro on our our way now to Now New No York where we will meet Mr McCune and the tho other members o of 01 the family and where wo we 0 shall spend tho tire holidays Yes Im glad clod to be alive and have bad a n pretty chose call caU |