The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THE WILD WEST SHOW.
Indian Accidentally Shot During the
sfa-e RobbinE Scene.

Indian Accidentally Shot During the
Stage Robbing Scene.
The Wild West portion of the last
day of the carnival came to a close
yesterday with a very realistic imita-
ton of a border experience, which
came to a great many people in the
early days of the west. The rest of
the show had been long way from
being satisfactory to the majority of
the big crowd of people who were in
attendance, but when the indian attack
on the Deadwood stage occurred as the
finale of the performance, and an In
dian was toppled over out of his sad
die. shot in dead earnest, the people
began to think it was a Wild west
show instead of an imitation.
Arizona Charley did the shooting, or
at least is supposed to have done, as
no one else had occasion to have a
loaded shell. and Joe Morris of Sixth
West and Eleventh South streets was
the victim. The latter was depicting
Scared But Not Afraid" and was
pumping blank cartridges into the
stage coach fast enough to have killed
off a regiment when the long haired
scout and a band of frontiersmen rode
out of a chaDarell TO go to the rescue
of the passengers of the coach. Char
ley commenced firing right and left
and soon drew bead on the painted
warrior His aim was very much bet
ter than when he was attempting to
break eggs on the run, and Mr.. Red
skin keeled over out Of his saddle and
bit off several large gobs of dust be-
fore the battle was at an end, and il
was discovered that the cartridge Char
ley had used had been loaded, and that
his human target was badly peppered
with shot.
A carriage was called and Morris was
taken 70 the police station, where his
wounds were examined by DrS. Daily
and Beers, and it was found that he
was not seriously injured. The heavy
charge of shot literally made a sieve
of the skin of his face and breast,
however. and he will be laid up for
some time at best. The examination
made by Drs Daily and Beers was
merely a superficial one to ascertain if
the unfortunate was in any immediate
danger, and it may be possible that
more serious results will develop than
was anticipated. Morris was taken to
st. Marks hospital, where an opera
ton was performed to extract the shot.
Two shots were found TO have pene-
trated the skin, one in the corner of
one eye. and the other just over the
other optic, and these may prove to
have made serious wounds.
The incident is believed to have been
purely accidental. as the two had never
met prior to Arizona Charley's advent
here, and Norris stated TO the police
that there had been no unpleasantness
between them. 1t occurred in this way:
Charley had been shooting at eggs
thrown in the air. and had used a Win
chester repeating shotgun. He missed
nearly all his shots and stated to the
audience that the cartridges had all
been blank except four. the blanks
having gotten mixed with the loaded
ones. When the Indian attack came.
he evidently had forgotten TO unload
his gun or else had taken a, loaded
shell for a, blank in reloading. This is
undoubtedly the correct explanation Of
the cause of the accident It was for
tunate for Morris that the shot were
no larger and the charge of powder no
heavier than they were.
The attack on the coach was one of