The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-24
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
A Shooting ARRAY in the Streets
of Columbus, Ohio.
TWO NEWSPAPER MEN
w. j. Elliott, Editor of the Sunday Capitol,
Kills Editor Osborne, of the World,
and au Innocent Spectator.

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 23.-A shooting ARRAY
occurred on the most crowded portion of
High street o-day, IN which about fifteen
shots were fired. The shots were ex-
changed by w. j. Elliott, of the Sunday
Capitol, and A. G. Osborne, of the Sunday
World, and grew out of an exchange of
slanderous articles. A bystander named
hughes was shot through the head and died
soon after, while a brother of w. j. Elliott
was shot through the arm and back and a
number of others were slightly wounded.
Elllott Is under arrest and threats are
made against w. J. Elliott. Stories about
Inc shooting are conflicting. Elliott asserts
osborne tired the shot which killed Hughes
at the time of the fusillade. Agreat crowd
was on the street watching the procession.
Inc excitement incident TO the tragedy
continues tonight and the situation is
threatening. Large crowds continue to
boyer about the scene Of the tragedy. w.
j. Elliott and his brother Patrick are held
at the city prison and owing to threats
openly made. the police authorities have
taken extra pecautions to prevent an out
break of mob violence. w. j. Elliott, who
was seen by reporter to night, said: sMy
brother and myself went up town to see the
parade. When in front of Schroder's sa-
loon L saw Osborne with revolver pointed
at me. reached for my gun, when he fired
Two or three times and fired back Os-
borne then fired at Pat who was in the
crowd.n
Elliott thinks this was how the men in
the crowd were shot and that Osborne's
gun wounded them. Pat Elliott stated that
Whlle running away from Osborne he felt
two stlngs where the bullets struck him.
interviews with large number of eve
witness say that W. j. Elliott opened fire
on Osborne first and the best information
OF those who saw it is that the first shot
was fired by Elliott, who hit Osborne in
the side OF the head. Osborne, after re-
turning the fire at Elliott, ran into a hat
store, where he was followed by Patrick
Elliott, and they had hand to hand strug-
gle, during which several shots were fired,
and Osborne shot through. He died in
stantly. The bodies of Osborne and w. J.
Hughes, an innocent spectator, were re
moved to the corOner's Office. Among the
wounded spectators were John H. Reese, a
government statistician agent, shot through
the left leg seriously; @. w. Sullivan.
Gardner, Danville, Ohio shot through the
ankle; G. w. Reifschmeider, shot in the
bosom by spent ball.
The terrible affair grew out of a news
paper feud which has been raging for sew
eral weeks between the publishers of the
Sunday World and tbs Sunday Capitol. Two
weeks ago, the World made charges against
Editor Elliott's family, insinuating female
relative was unchaste. Elliott retaliated
the following Sunday with four-column
article, charging Editor lowering, of the
World, with being joint proprietor of an
designation house. lowering is assistant
state oil inspector, and a prominent poll
tlclan. The charges created a sensation
and also implicated Clause Seeker, Gov
ernor Campbell's private secretary Lev
ering and Osborne retaliated yesterday by
charging Elliott with all the crimes in the