The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-26

Isaac Wines and Andrew Parks, both
colored, can thank one another that they
are both bad shots. else one or both might
have been deprived of voting week from
tomorrow. They met yesterday, ex-
changed shots and are now in the city Jail,
awaiting an opportunity of pleading under
a charge of assault with deadly weapons
| with intent to kill and physically neither
is any the worse for the encounter.
The trouble between the co.ored breth-
rem, according to the account of one. is
| the result of misrepresentation superin-
duced by several overdoses of liquor.
while the other charges his antagonist
with viii provokidng the passage at arms rs
is always spelling for gun fight
According to Wines, he and a soldier OF
the Twenty-fourth had been out together
and both had become comfortably bur-
dened before they determined to come in
They CHANGED to pass Parks residence
when he suddenly missed his companion
and thinking he might have gone INTO
Parks house, raped at the door and in
quired. He alleges that he received q very
gruff reply and that when he met Parks
yesterday morning in front of the Mint
saloon Parks had taken him to task and
threatened TO shoot him if he repeated the
call. Il told him. said Wines, hes bet
ter not do anything he's be sorry fer. OATS
two mems game Then he said, you just
come back here and We'll settle it now l
| said, If you'll fight square III go ycu,' and
started to follow him. 1 didn't think any
thing bout shootin', but he pulled his gun
| and blazed away, so pulled mine
Parks tells q very different story. He
says he had warned Wines to stay away
from his house and that he was awakened
Saturday night by the sound of rocks be-
ing thrown against his house ihen
heard rap" he said. "and jumped out
of bed and opened the door and there
stood Wines 1 told him to go away and
that if he ever came around my house
again I'd give him what he needed. When
l met him on the street this morning,
asked what he meant and he said he was
drunk. l told him that was no excuse for
such conduct and that If he came around
the house any more, he'd be sorry for II
He asked me what I'd do and | said, Nell,
if you'll come out back I'll whip you.
eve were in front of the Mint sa-
loon and L started down the alley along
side. He followed and had only gone a
few steps when he said he'd fix me right
there and commenced shooting. l ran
and got out of his way"
Another cOlored man who answers when
his friends call him Brock" saw the en-
counter and says ne did not see Parks
have a gun. At the station, when the men
were brought in by Officers Pack and
Lund, a 45-caiibre six-shooter was taken
from Wines containing one load and evil
dences that the other five chambers had
been recently discharged. No gun was
found on Parks, but the efi1cers say ne
had time to dispose of his weapon, as he
went home aud back before being ar
rested The shooting took place at about
10 o'clock and created considerable excite
ment for a few minutes. Parks claims TO
have had no gun but Wines claims ne
opened the ball. and the police say CHER
witnesses claim to have seen Parks gun
Wines IS janitor in the o Meara block
and Parks has been variously employed
9 s porter. The police say Parks is quar-
relsome and has been previously arrested
for shooting. Wines claims his antagon-
list is always threatening to shoot some
eli T1TnyOPattGn. HOfn
gentlemen will have an opportunity to ex-
plain to Judge Wenger today.