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Show Ian affray in the dark i " Deputy Marshal Collin Shoots Joseph McMnrrin, Probably Fatally. The Wounded Man Still AliTe, But With Very Slight Hope of ' Recovery. Colllu Transferred to Fort Douglas on the Authority of Ireland and Dickson. Salt Lake City seems fated to be always in a state of excitement and confusion fated to be a place of the deepest and most uncontrollable passion. Last week we stated that the people here could not live without excitement and agitation, j and this week we have the facts to verify ! the statement with sad and startling I emphasis. The public have already learned that about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening last a startling tragedy was enacted in the alley immediately north of the old Social Hall, on First East street, and that THE PRINCIPALS IN THE AFFAIR Were Deputy Marshal Collin and Joseph McMurrin, a nightwatchman at the tithing tith-ing office. Reports of the terrible affray are various vari-ous in many details and given with coloring color-ing according to the prejudice of the narrators for or against either party concerned. Realizing this, a Democrat reporter undertook to gather information that was reliable, and state the facts as they were related to him. This morning the reporter encountered Mr. George Davis, the grocer, and learned from him facts -which have not yet reached the public. Mr. Davis had "on Saturday evening been home to supper and was, about 7 o'clock, returning to his store. He lives in the alley where the shooting occurred, and as. he neared the west entrance HE MET THREE MEN GOING EAST In such a way as to arouse his suspicions, and, as his wife is a very timid lady, he concluded to return to accompany her through the alley, lest she, coming alone, would be badly frightened should she see the men he had just met. . Mr. Davis Bays that what aroused his suspicions was the way the men passed him. No one spoke, and from the time he first till he last saw the men, not one of them uttered a word. Mr. Davis further says that he noticed the last man, as he passed them, who was a man of medium height,and that he. wore a gray .overcoat. On his return but one man was in sight, and he stood by the fence at the rear of the hall. Mr. Davis went right to his residence, where he had only been but a few minutes, when HE HEARD FIVE SHOTS FIRED In the west end of the alley. As his wife was considerably frightened, he did not leave the house for a few minutes, and consequently there were others on the spot where the shooting took place before he got there. At the time of the shooting Mr. Alfales Young was at the house adjoining the alley on the north. All in the house heard the shooting, and noticed that there were five shots tired, the first three in rapid succession, as fast as a self-cocking self-cocking trigger could be pulled. As there was no noise, however, very little notice was taken of the firing. In a few minutes Mr. Young stepped outside out-side and leaned over the wall and looked up the alley, but as he saw or heard nothing, went back into the house". About 7 :40 he started with two of his nieces to the concert rehearsal, and as they passed the. alley Mr. Young proposed pro-posed to go into it and see if they could see anj'thing. - Some little distance east of the north side-door of the Social Hall Mr. Young saw something black on the ground.and on lifting it up with his cane, found it to be A NEW FELT HAT. He then went to. the City Hall and inquired in-quired if any one had been shot, and was told there 1iad. Just then Marshal Phillips Phil-lips came along and was going into the room where young McMurrin lay, when Mr. Young told the Marshal he would like to see him a moment, when they stepped into the police room and he gave the hat he had found to the Marshal, and told him how and where he had found it. The Marshal then, went into the room where the wounded man lav, and Mr. Young went on to the Opera House. At the time of the shooting MR. JOHN LLOYD Was on his way home. ' He was passing along near the rear of the Theatre when he heard two shots fired almost opposite to him, but did not think anything of the firing till he had crossed the road and had his attention drawn to a man lying inside the yard in front of Spencer Claw-son's Claw-son's house, a few doors north of Social Hall. He called out to Mr. Lloyd to summon the police and send a carriage for his wife, as he was in a dangerous condition. Mr. Llovd recognized the man to be Joseph M. McMurrin, and at once hastened to the City Hall and informed the police. The City Marshal and other omcers immediately went to McMurrin They found him in a weak condition, and I forthwith conveyed him to the City Hall where he informed those present that he had been shot by Deputy Marshal Collin. Mrs. McMurrin soon arrived and was beside her wounded husband. As the man) condition was precarious, he was" PREVAILED CPON TO MAKE A. DEPOSITION, The contents of which are not yet authoritatively author-itatively known. It is said, however, that McMurnn's. statement is to the effect that he was passing through the alley when he met Collin. Some unpleasant words passed between them; that he struck at Collin, when the latter opened fire on him. Soon after the deposition was taken, McMurrin was removed to his residence in the Eighth ward. Collin in the meantime mean-time had given himself up, and had been taken to the penitentiary in the custody of Deputies Greenman and Vandercook ! Regarding i THE ACTION THAT MARSHAL IRELAND TOOK In holding Collin, lie to-dav stated that when the city officers first made the demand on him for Collin that thev had no warrant for him. He told them i1 V?,, would hring Collin to the City Hall, which he afterwards did. h,en,the police next applied to the Marshal Mar-shal for Collin they had a warrant for him, but as Mr. Ireland had in the meantime mean-time arrested Collin himself he would not give him up, believing that as United j ;sates Marshal he had authority to hold I ; hun. The Marshal further stated that j j two years ago a case almost exactly like j this one came up, the onlv difference i I hemg that the city took the man into cus- j tody. When the Marshal demanded him, by virtue of a Commissioner's warrant ' the City Marshal would not and did not ! give him up, and the Marshal at the time I acceded to the city the right to hold the ! prisoner. I There are other corroborative and con- I I tradictory statements as to the number i ! of men seen in the vicinity of the affray. I Mr. Arthur Pratt was coming down at the : -. .......... , m ; , time of the shooting, and when on the Gardo House corner HE SAW TWO MEN On the other side of the street step over the ditch and run toward him, but on seeing Mr." Pratt they bore to the right and fled up through the Eagle gate. A young man who is living in the Grant family saw one run out of the east end of the alley; he was bareheaded and wore an overcoat, in the inside pocket of which j he saw a pistol. j From what can be learned nobody recognized any of the men, who it is definitely defi-nitely asserted were seen fleeing from the scene of the tragedy. ANOTHER STATEMENT Comes from the wounded man. When he had no other idea than that in a few minutes he would die, he firmly maintained main-tained that there was no other man in the alley beside himself and Collin. It isknown that the two inen met last week In the Third ward store, on lower Main street, and there had unpleasant words, in which McMurrin told Collin 'he was in a mighty low business. The latest advice as to THE CONDITION OF M'MURRIN Comes through Dr. Benedict, and is to the effect he is resting easy and that his temperature tem-perature is normal and pulse regular. He . was shot twice, both . balls entering the abdomen a little to the ' right - of the navel, and both passing through the liver, and one through the right kidney. - This latter lodged near the spine, and was extracted by Dr. Benedict about 11 o'cloek Saturday Satur-day night. It is believed that the stomach was not punctured, or the intestine or any vein cut. If this is true, there is no danger from hemorrhage, but inflammation inflamma-tion may set in, and this is the condition most feared. . COLLIN TAKEN TO FORT DOUGLAS. - There were rumors on the street this afternoon that Collin had been taken to Fort Douglas for protection, as it is said armed mobs were collecting for the purpose pur-pose of taking him from the Pen and lynching him. What foundation there may be as to the mobs could not be learned, but it was difinitely ascertained that Collin had been taken to Fort Douglas for safety. Marshal Ireland Ire-land and Mr. Dickson, on whose authority author-ity the prisoner was taken to the Fort, drove out of the city to the Pen this afternoon, after-noon, presumably to see after the transfer. trans-fer. ; . ,-' |