The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05
HOLLEY WANTED GORE.
WENT AFTER c. o. HAGAN
WITH A GUN.
An Escape From the Chain Gang
Frustrateti-Sergean Ford Sur
prises the PatroIman with New
and Improved Clubs.

Detective Adam Paul yesterday saved
G. O. Hagan of this city from being
pierced with bullet from the gun Of
w. Holley. Holley had been after Hagan
with his gun for several hours, and y, as
just preparing to fash it on Hagan,
when the willy Paul locked his arms
in a bear like hug from behind
Holley was wandering about the streets
gazing hungrily into the face of ped IS
trlans and occasionally putting his nand
nervously on his pistol pocket. Ibis eSl-
cited Paul's suspicious, and near the
corner of Second South he began to trail
I'M tne man man The nervous pedestrian veered
turned round abruptly and started =
walk back. AT the Jennings corner, the
detective saw someone dart past the
man with the gun and walk hurriedly
10 the other size of the street. A mo-
ment later he saw him returning, this
time with companion. AS soon as they
reached Holley both OF the men jumped
forward and Srasped him. Almost in
Slanlly ne Wrenched his right arm free
ana threw 1t back to his hip pocket. But
at that point it stopped, for 1t was just
mere that PAU arrived on the scene and
PINNED him from behind. The whole
scene occurred on Main Strete near
Gohns store and was over so quickly
that passing pedestrians scarcely noticed
that anything unusual had happened
f1olley was taken to the police station,
ana on the Way still threatened wildly
that he would have Hagan's blood. His
unslaked thirst for revenge was the re-
SUIT OF scrap with Hagan, WiIicn the
later latter soon ended with few well de-
lVered blows on the others mouth and
proboscis. The combat was a sort of Go
Ilath and Davis affair, as Hagan is as
big as an antediluvian monarch, and
ftolley as diminutive as one of the
tabled Lilliputians. The David of this
story, however, did not carry either
stone or a sling, and the big man soon
made him blissfully unconscious of his
ing a concealed weapon, and is likely to
undergo still longer durance in order
that peace may be kept
AN ESCAPE FRUSTRATED
A clever ruse that came near being a
some unknown persons to effect the es-
capes of John Edgar, of till tapping no
toI1ety, from custody in the chain gang.
+b Edgar ga w was =, working near the top of
nil. While the rest of the ragged bril-
gade We're using their picks a little
lower down On Thursday morning
when the gang arrived, Guard Raleigh
was surprized to see a large rope hang
Ing over the brow of the hill to the
very spot where Edgar was wont to
dlslodge rocks with his pick This at
nave thrown himself to the top on the
rope and then disappeared on the other
side before the guards could have circled
AROUND the hill and got ready for pur-
suit Stevens made his escape over The
hill a week ago, and someone who had
become emboldened by his successful
break for liberty had adopted this means
to get Edgar out of his travail among
the powders. Two men who were hang
ing around the gang two days before,
are suspected of being Edgar's accom-
plices. o.
SERGEANT FORDS SURPRISE.
Sergeant Ford yesterday cooed some
thing in the ear of each of the patrol
men under his official charge, and a few
minutes later they all gathered in front
OF the pallng that enclosed the captains
Sanctum. On the inside doomed up the
tall form OF the sergeant, who had one
eye on his lieutenants in blue, while
With his other orb he was diligently ir-
specting a. large bundle that was lying
broke the cord and pulled out a large
assortment of newly vanished CLUBS,
adorned about the handle with bright
red tapestry the eyes of about seven
parolmen inflated like an ostrich plum
age when warm tropical wind strikes
1T. When the sergeant digTifiedly picked
them aut one al a time and handed them
round, a half stunned expression spread
over the faces of seven men in blue
They are lighter than the Others" vol
the sergeant. This broke the
SPELL and the patrolnlen marched out. in
company with the new equipment and
with faces brighter than the muchly
Spangled bunting that hung over the
doorway of the hall.