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Show A SABBATH MATINEE. Eight Shots Exchanged on Main Street Early in the Morning. i Nobody Killed, Bat a Montana Cowboy Beceires an Ugly Wpnnd. i i j The Bold, Bad Shooters Arrested, and the Affair Awaiting Investigation. i I Shortly after 12 o'clock Saturday night j the neighborhood for several blocks about j the Palace Hotel, on the corner of Main and Third South streets, was aroused to i a sense of alarm, by the quick and successive suc-cessive reports of eight pistol shots, during dur-ing which a young man named William Marshall was shot through the right hip with a 44-calibre ball. The physicians believe the bone to be fractured,' and the wound is considered alarming. Ollie Bess, William Hill and W. Carter state that three strangers flashed a gun on them, which commenced the firing, and as the trial is indefinitely postponed at the Police Court, the facts will not be known for the present. Yesterday afternoon a Democrat reporter re-porter called on the wounded man at his up-stairs room in the Colorado House, and found him in bed, enduring considerable consid-erable pain from the ugly shot. On making mak-ing known the purpose of the call, Mr. Marshall stated the following PARTICULARS OF THE UKFORTCNATE OCCURRENCE OCCUR-RENCE : . . ; Ed. Hall, a companion and myself came here from Montana about ten days ago with a small band of horses for sale. We put up at Thompson & Jurgenson's stables, where we bunked in our blankets until two nights ago, when I rented this room. During our stay here we have attended to our stock and been orderly or-derly and quiet, as you can learn by calling at the stables. Last Saturday Sat-urday night after supper we walked up Main street to Dinwoodey & McTernay's old place and played a few games of pool, after which one of the .party proposed that we go to Peacock's saloon, which we did. Here two unknown fellows who had dropped in and taken a drink with us BECAME INVOLVED IN A DISPUTE, Which was quieted by three of us leaving the place. At the Wasatch corner, in front of the U. P. ticket office, Carter, Hill and Bess accosted us again, and a secpnd time we left them, and called at a house adjoining the east side of the Metropolitan Metro-politan Hotel, to where the three men followed us. I took my hat and said, "Come, boys, let's go to our beds." We left the houBe to go to the Colorado Hotel, and when on the corner of Main and Third South streets, Carter, Hill and Bess came running up to within fifteen feet of us, when Carter leveled a revolver and said, "HOLD UP YOUR HANDS, BOYS," And we started to run. He fired twice at me that I remember, the first shot entering my right hip. I ran up Main street and into an alley, where I became weak and fell down. I told the other boys that I was shot and they said I was only scared. Dr. Potter came down and stopped the blood from flowing, and Hall brought me here to my room. The police officers called on me shortly after the shooting and said they had arrested ar-rested Hall, Norton and Carter, who did the shooting. They examined me and my two friends but found no weapons of any sort, for we carried none. I don't know why they shot at us, although Carter Car-ter said OFFICER PICKETT HAD TOLD THEM TO ARREST AR-REST US. l nave means for all expenses, and desire to go to the hospital, where' I can get the very best treatment. Doctors Bowers & Richards came to see me shortly after the shooting and dressed the wound, but j did not get the ball, which is still in my thigh. We have several head of horses at the stables and can show by men here who know us that we are all right. We had no firearms and used none, while the shots fired at us were uncalled un-called for and remain to be explained. The case was to be heard in the police court this morning, but as" Mr. Watrous for Hall. Marshall and Morton is out of town, City Attorney Moyle said he could not tell just, when the affair would have a hearing. |