The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-06

going on. Toe fact, il is said.
was susceptible Of proof. and
with desire to pus an
end 10 the practice, couple
OF policemen we're sworn in. Ham
brick being one. and person said to
be named Fowler, also employed il
PIitchett's place. the other. Il seems
that Brannsa learned oil the probable
arrest of himself and others on the
charge. and told those who played
with him that they would be given
away, in which event he Ia reported
I to Lave threatened thethe would kick
the betFayer out of the saloon. At
any rate, the parties were arrested
anG on Monday last tried for gambling,
pleaded guilty, and fined. Branuen
paid HE fine, and leaving the court
proceeded to PritchelPs saloon, where
were the others who had playeJ
and been fined with him. Ham
brick also was there, and Fowler.
The store has counters on either
side, with q place for ingress and
egress TO AMI from in the middle of
each of the counters, while the stove
is about the centre of the room, and
a de5k at one end. The parties we're
all standing around the stove, when
.Brsnnen said TO the persons impli-
Gated with him, something like:
"This is the cues or stinker who gave
us away" He Ia said to have re-
pested it twice, when Hambrick
took it ur, calling BranDen a &c d
ID lying 81 o! b-h," or some.
thing ike that. In an instant Bran
men, who is a very large and powerful
man, and who had his overcoat
and gloves on, pulled a large
pistol out OF bis pocket and
struck HambIick heavy blow on the
head with it. a young man named
Seely, seeing the movement. sprang
forward, and threw his arms shout
Brannen, but not in time to avert the
blow, though perhaps breaking the
force of it. The pistol went of but
did no harm. The blow stunned Ham
brick, who called out TO Fowler, the
other officer. then engaged at the.desk,
to ''shoOt him" meaning BTannen.
Fowler began firing and Hsmbrick
q d go also-the one being on one side
of BIanuen, the other on the contra
side. Both emptied. it is said, their
revolTsTs; aud Brannen fired tour
shots from his pis.ol. In this iusilade
the positions charged and Brannen
managed to get behind one of the
counters aud dropped down, so as to
hide himtelf, while Hambrlck got to
where there vas a loaded shot,
gun, which he seized. This he
raised 10 position, a distance OF per
haps fourteen feet from where Bran
uen was hiding behind the counter,
and kept a steady eye On the epot
Ii is said HambTick himself tells that
be first saw the top of BranDen's bat
coming up. then the brlm. but he
waited until he saw bis eyes, and
having dead aim, fired; and Brannen
dropped backward again. This ended
the fight, the store having been al
most riddled with bullets, bat
BIannen alone being hurt. The
shotgun was a double-barreled one,
and it is said one barrel contained
nine buckshot and fine shot behind
it, while the other contained six
buckshot, with fine behind it; and
that the one containing the nine was
that which HsmbTick fired; but as the
gun is now in the hands of Pritchett,
who declares it has Been untouched
since the affair, the question OF which
barrel was discharged can readily be |
When DR.. Benedict arrived be
found Brannen sensible, but be had |
been unable to speak so as to be IN
derstood since 5 O'Clock on Tuesday |
morning, and he is still iR the same |
condition; the night side of his face Is !
partly parsly zed, but he understands |
all that is going on. He is wounded |
IL two places, one being q scalp |
wound. This shot struck him almost |
IN the top Of the crown and passed |
under the skin, about |
three inches, exposing the skull, but |
doing no other harm. The other !
ball entered the right side of the left |
eye, close against the nose, breaking |
away g part of the bone, and ranging |
downward and to the right slightly. |
This Is the dangerous wound. he !
also had several holes in his hat, but |
nowhere else.
Fowler was arrested aud put under |
j, eco bonds, and was 20 have been |
examined st 10 O'Clock on Wednes-
lay morning. The question is as to |
whether Fowler or Hamorick, or !
both, did The shooting l. Is pretty |
we'll settled that HambTiok did shoot |
him, as he states he djd; but as be |
did it beyond any question in self |
defense, Br2nnan having struck him,
be was not arrested. FoWier's |
connection, perhaps. hinges on the |
question whether the balls that struck
BIsunen were pistol bullets OF buck
shot. DR.. Benedict says be thinks
that had BTannen got either OF the
balls before the shot gun was fired.
be could not have stood up. and
therefore gives it as his opinion that
both wounds were inflicted az the one
time by the shot gun. Moreover,
whatever msy be the result OF the
il is doubted-admitting
that Fowler did hit Observation-Disclosures
he could be properly held. as he was
not Only an officer, bat had been
called Cd by a brother officer. who
bad been assaulted, for aid, while the
fret shot came from Brsnnen's pistol.
There is considerable excitement over
the affair at Noun! Pleasant. and
many are OF tbs opinion that Fowler
is unfairly beiug worked into the
case. 1t seems to be the general be-
lief that BGsnnen bad made up bis
mind to kill HGmbrick, the assault
with a occked pistol being dserrd
sufficient to justify this belief.
So fsr the chances favor Brannen's
Rad unless unexpected
difficulties arise be viii probably get
well. Dr.. Benedict will, however.
to-day, make a careful examination
of the wound and find where the ball
is, ii possible, and he may be Obliged
to take cut the left eye.