Show ATTEMPTED MURDER frank smith shoots shoot patsy jones through the richt liine lung ogden C city ity is acquiring an tin unenviable reputation as the scene of f homicides and general rascality at a rate rather ther too rapid for the well earned good reputation of the law abiding and moral bulk of her population ula tion nr and A we might as well ex pres sour our opinion rig right lit here that the moral sewage of the town cries loudly for immediate attention even if it requires radical measures suspicious characters devoid of all restraints of morals or religion prone to every evil action ih thriftless and shiftless too lazy to work but experienced in all manners and methods of illegitimate live are pouring into this thiv city whose material advantages for being inythe the junction cit city T are tire almost outweighed by the moral draw backs resulting from the unrestricted and ever increasing influx of individuals divi duals possessed of no principles but penetrated by every instinct of perversity lawlessness and vice vim this alarming state e f affairs cropped out again on friday night ia iti one odthe of the most unprovoked ATTEMPTS AT MURDER wo we ever became aware of the fol lowing are the particulars of the cowardly act as far fir as learned by our reporter it appear appears a number of friends of th the e late john E elvin ivin the CP switchman who had bad received fatal injuries a the depot thursday night and had expired on friday afternoon were holding wake over his corpse in the office of the omaha house lower over fifth street friday night A bout eleven a young fel low who gives his name as 14 yank smith entered the house and in a noisy manner as some witnesses assert asked for a nights lodging which was refused him hira upon which there seems to have ensued SOME SORT OP A QUARREL aa as the friends of the decea deceased ted in aisted on having the quiet decorum duo due to a dead man preserved while the latecomer late comer petulantly petulantly petulant ll pushed his demand f for or t the I io bad bed it is ia said that one of the watchers slapped smith on the head bead ras I k words were bandied about and at last smith was crowded out of the front door we wo understand by patsy jones As soon as smith reached the door on the outside he pulled what from subsequent evidence appears to have been a 38 calibre pistol to and fired the shot taking effect IN THE RIGHT LUNO LUNG of patsy jone jonce a brakeman on the U P R R about 26 years of age gc and according to general report a I man of good behavior at and id stead steady y conduct jones fell at once to the ground and while whilo the first thought of those present was to rush to the assistance ast istance of the wounded man and to send for a surgeon the arrant coward who sent tho the fatal missile into the body of ofa a defenseless fellow be being ti made his escape dr r 31 jones was sent for and he be appeared on tho the scene of the bloody a affair fl air f followed shortly after by dr 11 J powers the two surgeons had the assailed man conveyed into an adjacent building an and d there applied all that science suggests and skill supplies to relieve the injured man tuan and STEM THE FLOOD OP OF LIFE FLUID that oozed profusely from his ghastly wound they succeeded with the assistance of dr A S condon to avert tho the raen menacing acing intercession of death meanwhile the perpetrator of the foul deed had bad escaped in the fright af his murderous action he hurried as lashed by the scourges soo urges ef of tho the furies hither and thither his ilis terror driven steps took him to the city jail where a light moment of foresight told him he would land and he threw some silver c coin oin through the grating above the door in the FRENZY OF HIS ills FEAR thence he be wandered around until about 10 in the morning when became he came to the keeney house at sit tho the U C depot there he stated to the tho porter that ho bad had been in n some trouble had had a fight or something similar he obtained a room and wen went t to bed bd his conscience laden with the immovable incubus of bloodguilt blood guilt here too nemesia nemesis reached him special policeman J 13 mclennan with one mr J kelley came to tho keeney house about in in the morning and secured smith other officers of the law took a hand band in the case and outraged jus i lice had her satisfaction at least in part when smith was brought to alte finD BEDSIDE SIDE OF HIS nis VICTIM who was then apparently in ip tha the n ofhie of his earthly existence and then and there patsy jones solemnly and repeatedly declared that he be positively recognized frank smith as the man zo who had fired the ball which had prest pres grated him on his daiv pouch of lm lint eminent death th the accused man denied pi but has already so our reporter understands involved himself in contradictions which will greatly aggravate his case me he wa was taken to W the lie cit city jail na and there placed under I lock oc and key ey g grating and belts the prisoner is a it young fellow short shori set but rather stout his ilis face fice ia is round and ruddy boyish looking but a sinister expression in in his eyes betrays a vitiated if not a naturally VICIOUS character CHARAC TEn he waa was here about three weeks ago trying to start a faro game but subi went to tn salt lake whence lie returned friday morning i this afternoon dr al jones the attending surgeon made the following hopeful statement concerning the condition of patsy jones the patient has ra rallied lied from the eh shock ock internal hemorrhage of the lung is thought to have been successfully CHECKED at he be woke to lc L c from one and a half hours perfectly natural sleep which refreshed him bim so much that he be expressed himself as not su suffering frering the patients breathing is good only 30 re spira lions per minute considering that his au lung i 13 s wounded it ia is likely akely that ne the ball which entered just jut about one inch to the left of the breast bone below the second rib passing chest ng through the anterior wall of r the chest and ranging toward the shoulder joint of the right side ia is now lodged in the walls malls of the chest on the right bight side As the wounded man is is full of vigor and vitality there is now more hope of HIS ULTIMATE RECOVERY than was first expected under the critical circumstances |