The record-union., 1898-07-20
CAME NEAR BEING MURDER.
MINOTTE YOUNG'S LATEST
ESCAPADE.
He Sends q Bullet Through the
Arm and Into the Side Of
A. T. West.

Minotte Young Of Nineteenth and N
streets is in trouble again. He is also
in Jail.
Early last evening he fired a shot
from pistol at A. T. West and hit him.
The bullet went through the fleshy part
OF Vests arm and into his side, and
was taken out from his back. The
wound is not a dangerous one.
From what could be gathered from
people living in the neighborhood-
some of whom witnessed the shooting
1T seems that Young and West have
had several wordy spats of late when
in liquor, which is pretty nearly their
normal condition. Their latest row
was on Saturday night, but they did not
come to blows
West says that last evening, as he
left an clubhouse in the yard Of
neighbor, near Youngs home, he saw
the latter sitting on the back porch
with pistol in each hand. When
Young saw him he got off his perch so
to speak, and advanced to meet him
with his battery bearing on him. When
Young got within few feet of West
he applied an opprobrious epithet to the
latter and asked if he wanted to fight.
Il told him." said West, that
might If he would put away the guns,
but that 1 didn't care to run up against
two such weapons
With that, he said, Young shot him
with the pistol carried in his right hand,
but before he could shoot again he
(WesD Sprang behind the clubhouse
where two of the neighbors, who were
close by, took hold of him and hurried
him away to the residence of a DOCTOR
He did not know what became of Young
until the police patrol wagon called
for him, and then he found Young
therein under arrest.
Young's mother told Record
Union" reporter that it was West who
challenged her son to fight She said
West had been hanging about there,
getting drunk and greatly annoying
the family and others in the neighbor-
hood
Captain Ash and Patrol Driver But
Ter We're soon on the ground, and guild
ed by some boys who had seen Young
leave the place of the shooting, they
found him hiding in r. w. Parker's
barn in the alley between Nineteenth
and Twentieth, M and N streets. He
was then unarmed and made no resist
ance. 1t is supposed he hid the pistol
either in the barn or about his own
home.
Minotte Young has anything but a
good record. He has often been con-
cerned in hoOdlumish rows by what
is known as the Twentieth and Or
gang. few years ago he assaulted
Jacob Gebert in the latters saloon and
bit off good-sized chunk of one of
Gebert'S ears. On another occasion he
slashed young man named Duhain
with knife, and on another he beat
young woman on the head with a
weapon Of some sort. He has always
managed to escape with light punish
ment.
He is a big fellow, fully six feet in
hight, and a dangerous man when in
liquor. Once when two or three police
hammer and stood them off until re-
inforcements reached the front.
West, the latest victim of Youngs
ungovernable temper, appears to be a
troublesome person. according to what
people out that way say. On Satur-
day night, it is said, he assaulted a
| bartender at Eighteenth and M streets
and broke bottle on the latters head.
He carries a black eye, however, as a
memento of the occasion. Young de-
clares that West had annoyed and
| insulted some female friends or ac-
quaintances of his, and that was how
the trouble between them began.
Young was locked up and West was
detained in the Receiving Hospital for
treatment. He will probably be de-
tanned as a witness.