The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-30
MurderOus Mexican at Brown:
Park Defied the MOuntaineers.
MADE HIS ESCAPE TWICE
EMPTIED HIS SIX SHOOTERS
AND TOOK TO THE BRUSH.
lnsanely Jealous of His Homely Wife
Joe Good Undertook to Kill
Negro Who Stopped at the Camp
For Something to Eat-Judge
Dusenberry Has Many Friends.

vernal, May 26.-Hades has broken
loose again over in the Browns Park
country
Sam Bassett came in from the Park
today on a flying trip, after Sheriff
Preece. and brings the particulars of
some more of the wild work for which
that section is justly notorious.
Mention was made in The Herald
few days since, of a fracas having
taken place in that region between a
Mexican and a colored man.
The Mexican. who is known among
the ranchers as Joe Good, but whose
real name is Bueno, is employed by
Thomas Davenport, as sheepherder,
together with his wife, who, 1t seems.
acts as camp cook.
Although Mrs. Good is not noted
for her beauty, yet her Iiege lord is in
sanely jealous of her. from what is
learned. And it is believed that the
green eyed monster was knawing at
his vitalS when he openly declared
war in the customary way among
the wild and wooley inhabitants over
the hill, by delivering his ultimatum in
the shape of a 1910
It seems, in the first place, that the
day the original fracas occurred the
colored man, 1sham, rode up to the
sheep wagon, and was invited TO
dinner by Bueno. ISham accepted the
invitation and dismounted. Leaving
his horse and gun in charge of one of
the Bassett boys who had ridden up
with him, he entered the wagon, where
upon Bueno obtained possession of the
gun and fired into the wagon This
frightened Isham's horse, which broke
loose and ran away. In the excite
ment 1Sham got away While Bueno
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at once secured help from the Park
ranchmen and returned to the camp
or the purpose of capturing Bueno,
Who had made away with his horse
md gun in the melee.
When the men reached the camp
md called out for the surrender of the
nan and wife the woman threw up
Ter hands, but Bueno showed fight.
Several shots were exchanged, but
he man escaped, and was not seen
again until yesterday, when he again
anne into camp. The posse went after
linn when they learned of his return
Bueno still showed fight and a lively
fusilade followed. Thirty shots were
fired into the wagon in which he and
his wife took refuge. When the men
rode up Bueno finally leaped from the
wagon and took a stand in a patch
of willows, where he was still hold
ng the fort when Sam Bassett was
dispatched for Sheriff Preece-
The woman stated that Bueno re-
seived a bullet in the hip but Bassett
states that he was not apparently
lame when seen running for the
thiclzet. How he escaped being killed
was q miracle. A dog which was in
the wagon was killed. Bueno kept up
a hot return fire during the battle, and
made matters decidedly interesting for
some of the attacking party.
It is thought that perhaps the man
is crazy, as he seems to resent any
attention being paid his wife, and the
fact that Isham went into the wagon
to talk with the woman may have
suddenly angered linn. At any rate
he is classed as a very dangerous man,
and seems to be decidedly ION the
shoot" People here are inclined to
think that there is something = the
climate over the hill which predisposes
the inhabitants to open fire at any
moment the mania seiZes them.