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Show Mexicans Fire or Salt LakeMieers; Two t Wounded. ; Salt Lake, Aug. 5. One Mexican : is dead, two are dying and City Deli De-li teclivc- C. A. Williams was shot in , the nose as, a result of a spectacular ' ,21m figjit between the three' Mexicans Mexi-cans and several police officers jn the 'ruins of the old stockade on First South, between Fourth West and m .Fifth West at 11 o'clock last night. ' Hie dead man is "Joe" Martini, 35 years of age. The Injured Mexicans are Frank Garcia and Facundo Gon- zalijfi. .'Mariini was shot through the head 'and instantly killed by Detective Walter Wal-ter S. Brown after he had fired two shots at the officer, grazing his left strio. Gonzales opened fire at Williams as he dashed by the officer in an at-! at-! tempt to escape. One of three shots j si ruck the detective in the nose, shat- ( tering the- bone. Williams fired twice if. as he sank to the ground. Both bul- lets took effect on the right lung of ? Gonzales. I The shooting was the outcome of ' an attempt by the Mexicans to at-j at-j tack Mrs. Aiieen Wallace and Mrs. f Margaret Cross, colored, in their : home at 565 W. First South. Accord- lug to Mrs. Cross the trio kicked at f their door and demanded beer. As i Mrs. Cross opened the door she says 4 the trio pushed their way into the ..' room, each armed with a revolver, i "Two of them grabbed Mrs. Wal- laco and carried her into her room in .; the rear of 561 W. First South," said ) Mrs. Cross. "As soon ' as they left 'j the room I telephoned the police -and locked my door." Detective Williams and Chauffeur J. B. Taylor and Brown responded, Mrs. Cross warned the officers that i the Mexicans were armed. I Just as Williams and Taylor went ' around the corner, Detective Brown i threw himself against the locked ,j door of Mrs. Wallace's room. The lock gave way and as the officers entered en-tered the room Martini pulled his gun and fired pointblank at Brown. At the same moment Brown and Chauffeur Tavlor fired and both bullets bul-lets found their mark. Whipping his gun out and with a cry of " "Gringo," GonzalcB fired at Williams, who waB standing in the doorway. He wounded wound-ed the officer as he ran outside. Williams Wil-liams fired at the fugitive and then Pitched unconscious into the mud Just outside of the, ''doorway. Garcia, it, "was learned later, had gone to a. near-by saloon for beer while his countrymen were holding Mrs. Wallace in her room. When the shootingstarted, ho secreted himself In the stockade ruins and weeds. With the.tflr of the searchlights of a police- machine, the officers located him. moment the rays of the lightsfocused on him, Garcia fired at Bjkrolman Clifford Patten and W. fuKos. The officers returned the -Stfe and dropped Into the weeds. Garcia Gar-cia did not shoot any more. Believing him wounded, W. S. Brown, Jukes, Patten and K. M. Grler dashed toward his retreat in an aulomoblio with, the searchlight focused on Garcia as he lay prone with his gun clutched in one hand. A command to surrender failed to bring a response and the four men in the auto opened fire. Three bullets bul-lets entered his bodyi It was stated, however; at the emergency hospital early this morning that both wouuded Mexicans have little chance for recovery. re-covery. Williams wasplaced In a private automobile and taken to the emergency emer-gency hospital. He was able to go to his home after his wound had been dressed. |