The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
THE PARK CITY SHOOTING.
NEW AND CORRECTED VERSION
OF THE AFFAIR.
Frank Sullivan, Not Steve, Was the
Man Who Did the Shooting-De-
tails of His Mad Actions.

Park City, Aug. 3-The reports in
The Herald and Tribune of the Sulli-
van shooting were incorrect, the regu-
ing absent from the city. The facts lie
as follows:
Frank Sullivan (not Steve Sullivan)
had been employed by Kearns & We
Der at their concentrating plant below
the Silver King mine, for some time.
His brother John returned from Aspen,
Colo, a short time ago and has been
seeking employment. Frank tried to
get work for him at the mill, but John
Kearns (not a brother of Thomas
Kearns), manager, refused to employ
John. Owing to some repairs neces-
sary to the mill, some of the men were
laid off, and Frank Sullivan was
among them. He came down town and
proceeded to get. drunk, and succeeded
IN getting on the craZiest kind of a
jag. He went to the store of Frank
Andrew and purchased a revolver,
went home. loaded his gun and told his
mother he intended to do up Kearns
so he would not refuse any more men
jobs.
His mother (Mrs. ]. McLeod) sent
for the city marshal, who came and
tried to pacify the young man, who had
worked himself up into such a state
that he would not listen to reason, and
it was feared in his craze he might
carry out his threat and kill Kearns.
The marshal left Sullivan and went to
the residence of Mr.. Kearns on Wood
side avenue. He had just reached the
house when Sullivan came up on a
horse and shouted to the marshal to
get out of the way or he would shoot.
Kearns stepped out of the front door
to the right and walked out in front of
the house. Without any argument
whatever, Sullivan covered him with
his pistol and made some remarks
about his brother. KearnS jumped be-
hind coal shed. Sullivan then pointed
his gun at Marshal Hyde and told him
to go. Hyde obeyed, and as he went
down the street Kearns called after
him, For Gods sake don't leave that
man to murder my wife and family"
Hyde did not stop, however, and Sui
Ivan thrust his pistol in Mrs. Kearns
face and forced an entrance into the
house. He was there confronted by
Mrs. Tim Sullivan, wife of Foreman
Sullivan of the Silver King, who Crap
pied with him for the gun, and had she
been assisted by some of the many
men who stood around, Sullivan could
have been arrested. She was, how
ever, unable to hold the desperate, who
by this time had reached the dining
room and began shooting through the
windows.
After terrorizing the household, he
returned to his horse and rode down
the canyon. Hyde by this time had
found Tom Walden and was returning,
when they met Sullivan leisurely wa
terlng his horse at a trough in Wood
side canyon. Walden walked up to
him and said 81 want YOU Sullivan
thereupon covered the policeman with
his A, saying, Don't touch that bride
rein. He then backed off and rode
down the street, firing his gun in the
air, and did not stop until he had got
out OF sight on the Kamas road The
officers followed, but lost the trail, and
he is still at large.
George Groo, clerk at the Ontario
mine, informed your correspondent
that Sullivan called at the boarding
house for his breakfast this morning.
Sullivan has worked for Kearns &,
Weber for three years and only on one
occasion before had he been disorder
~. About three years ago Mr.. Kearns
gave. John Sullivan 5000 to establish a
cigar factory. He did not prove true
TO the trust, leaving town with what
money he could get out of the stock.
and Kearns had to settle up the ac-
When he returned, a short time
since, Kearns ignored him. This seems
to have aggravated Frank to the extent
Of seeking Kearns' life.
Marshal Hyde thinks he could have
taken Sullivan only by killing him.
This he would not do, on account of his !
age and the fact of his being intoxi- |
cated