, 1884-07-19
SHOT AT.
A Drunken Cook Insults Some
Ladies'
And is Fired at BY a Young
Ran.

Last evening the people in the vicinity
Of Walkers restaurant, on Seventeenth
street We're startled by the loud report ola
pistol shot which came from within the
restaurant, and Immediately there was
such a rush to get inside to see what it
was all about that the entrance TO the res
taurant was chokcl up with people, while
the cry, "A man shot, a man shot, was
heard on every hand. At the same time
a man in a white apron and with his head
covered with a white cap and with some
thing in his hand, was seen to turn the
corner west of the Simmons House and
run rapidly down to the corner by Marks
& Myers after which he fled like a deer
down Eddy street and eventually disap-
peared among some of the buildings in
the alley behind Pearse & Gray's drug
store. When the crowd entered the res
t%aurant, a lady was seen among two or
three who were present at the time with
a revolver in her hand, which, OF course,
gave rise to the rumor, and rapidly
spread, that she had shot 4 Span. Such,
however, was not the case, The facts in
relation TO the transaction we're these: At
the place mentioned there has been en-
ployed for the past few days as cook, a
Frenchman by the name of Emil Des-
mond, who is not only given at times to
imbibing too freely, but at all times. and
especially on such occasions, makes very
free with his tongue, which oftentimes
wags with all sorts of filth and profanity
not fit for the ears of men, to say nothing
about ladies. Yesterday he took it into
his head that he was pretty dry and fire.
quently during the day, while in the dis
charge of his duties, went out for the pur-
pose of getting a schooner of beer. The
result was that about supper time he had
become just drunk enough to be very talk
alive and insulting. While preparing to
get the supper in readiness he addressed
himself more or less to the ladies. three
or four being present at the time, and
finally used a most foul and insulting ex-
preston to one of the younger members
of the group, and one which it is not nee
essary for us to repeat here. At this, a
young man named Harry Troxel, who was
employed at the restaurant, became so in
censed and excited that he caught up a
revolver which was close at hand and shot
at the insulter, but his shot did not take
effect. The cook turned to rush out of
the house and one of the ladies' who was
present took the revolver away from the
waiter before he had time to FIRE again,
which he perhaps would have done had
not some n interfered, although he
claims that he did not intend to hit the
cook, but merely to scare him, which, as
the sequel shows, he did most effectually.
The cook made his escape as already de-
scribed. 1t transpired, however, that
what he caught up when he ran out of the
back way of the restaurant, was some lit
tie books which belonged to the young
lady he had insulted. Officer Smith made
his appearance at the place almost as soon
as the shot had been fired, but after the
cook had fled from the building. He
took charge of the revolver and removed
the remaining charges, and in doing so,
ascertained that but one shot had been
fired, although it was commonly reported
that there had been three. Officer Smith
made diligent search for the cook, Des-
mond, last evening, but up to a late hour
he had not been seen from the time he
made his escape from the restaurant. The
other party wal not arrested and it is not
at all likely that he will be.