El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-07
A RESERVATION INCIDENT.
Narrow Escape From Murder in Utah
Str. ct Saloon, Last Evening.

Str. ct Saloon, Last Evening
Vic or Sslvini, the well known Utah
street saloon keeper, was ehot three
tim'= last evening by Pomp James,
the we'll known cowboy rOping expert
from Maria, with q forty five: and that
Salvini is not entirely in the past tense
is not the marksman' 3 fault. Salvini
did too much lodging, and he 10 now
"restinR easy" or words to that effect.
According to the statements made to
HERALD reporter who visited the
location of the shindy shortly after
wards, the shooting was done In the
Union saloon opposite Eta Clark's
denier resort, in an alteration be-
tween the saloon proprietor and two
cowmen. Pomp James and Charlie
Green, the latter being from Colorado
City, and q we'll known genius with
sporting proclivities James and Green
tered the Union aaloon shortly
before dark, and INDUCED in
the usual lixivistion.. Then,
according to the gentleman from Mar
ia who il now in DURANGO vile, he and
Green started to the dance hall at the
rear Of the saloon. At the entrance
Salvini denied them sdmittance ut
frat, but finally consented to let Creep,
whom he knew, go in. James was
wearing d M0AlCdQ u0U 6U UuO tlIuO euu
his swarthy, weather-beaten cOunte-
nance beneath suggested he was Mex
lean, and Salvini taking him for one,
used some rather strong language in
expressing his lack of appreciation of
the caballeros Mejtcanos who were
won't to frequent his establishment.
No, he wouldn't let the Mexican en-
ter his dance hall-then, anyhow.
James holds that Saivini Immediately
or hnhir6 fho To- ~ n
gun. when the cOwman pull d his
forty-fve and started to dust tho
COUNTER
Salvini tells a differe Mt story. He
claims that the two men started to-
wards the hall. but were bent on going
via the kitchen. to which Salvini OBJ
jected, ss his wife was cooking supper
and he did not want any outsiders in
there. So he told the men they must
not 90 into his kitchen to which they
replied that:they would. "Hot words
followed" and Pomp yanked his shoot
ing iron. The saloon proprietor drop
ped under the bar to dodge the shots
as the bowman began puncturing the
atmosphere. The fret bullet plowed
Just under the skin ON the left shoulder.
Then Salvini jumped up and made for
the hall door at the Utah street end of
the bar. when a second bullet pierced
James followed and pumped again. the
bullet singing Salvini's left side,
little more, however, than cutting the
flesh. The thoroughly frightened
aloon keeper now escaped through the
side hall door, and the shootist put for
the street. Here he met boy mount.
cd on a horse. Tho youth looked
down the business end of Pomp's for
ty-five, and concluded that to the vic
~, ha1 cd he ho
fully slid off the animal, and James
taking his place. made for the Mexican
shore. But for soma occult reason he
changed bis mind, and rode back
again, and surrendered to Policeman
DenistOn who was in quest OF him in .
hack. The marksman was locked up
in the county jail. while it was shortly
that Green had hied him
over the river.
tend to Salvini who was found much
more scared than hurt. He never was
much of q talker in English, and in
this moment of his peril ''clean done
forgot" all bis Ingles, and gasped out
his expls nations in the vernacular Of
the land of sunshine, macaronpi and
olives. Green returned to Ell Paso,
but the chief of police says he does not
want him, and all that will be asked of
him Will PROBABLY be to Appe sr IS
witness in the hearing to be held be-
fore one of the justices when Salvini
gets his wits back and is cable to trav-
ell"
Pomp James said this afternoon that
be never attempted to use his weapon
until Saliva nj m ade grab for his own
gun under the counter, and James saw
tho gun in Salvini's hand
about to be used before he fred.
Moreover, the second shot was not
fred until Salvini bad made q second
attempt to bring his gun into play.
Tt e prisoner expects to secure his re-
lease shortly on habeaus corpus pro-
ceedings.