The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-15
PARTICIPANTS IN TIE SHOOTING.

day was no exception. Five of them,
all soldiers. went into the saloon and
ordered beer. Upon receiving it they
refused to pay more than the regular
price, and young Maddox, in the in
terest of his father took a pistol and
followed them out. he called upon
them to pay for the drinks, and they
refused.
Angry words passed, and Mascot
White started into the saloon, he says,
to settle the account and prevent
trouble, but at the same time Maddox
was struck in the head with a rock
thrown from some other quarter. He
then opened fire on the eolored men,
shooting five times, and wounding
White and PearsaH. The latter had no
hand in the difficulty, being merely a
passerby. Neither did White take a
part in the quarrel. He went, perhaps
to his death, being innocent of ans
wrongdoing.
Maddick's Second Gun.
After emptying his gun. Maddox
went back into the saloon and got
second one, but before he had a chance
to use it, a crowd had gathered and
he was diSarmed The police were
quickly on the scene and got the princi-
pals all except the five men originally
in the place. These will be appTehend
ed and held as witnesses.
The wounded men were taken to pO-
lice headquarters and subsequently 10
the Holy Cross hospital, DTs. Witcher
Ill AI.s.s-r int ri
PearsaH has better chance Of Fecov-
cry than the boy White, the latter be-
ing shot through both lungs. He may
die from internal hemOTrhage. Pear
sail is shot through the abdomen and
his left arm is fractured Inquiry at
the hospital early this morning devel-
Oped that they are resting as easily as
might be expected.
The town had quoted down by mid
night, but a little before ? o'clock a
crowd of frenzied negroes rode down
from the post, evidently intent on re-
venge, and tried TO shoot up the town
They filed Links saloon full of holes
and Del Wilson, the saloon
man, had a morrow escape from being
shot.
Young Maddox told his story of the
shooting while in a stuDOr at police
headquarters. His head was bleeding
from ne effects of the blow he re-
ceived. and he seemed under the in
huence of drink. His nerves were ter
ribly shattered too, as he began to
realize what he had done.
''Oh, I'll tell you all I know about it,
said he, IF / can only remember. -Four
or five niggers came into the saloon and
called for drinks. Ny father told them
they would cost a quarter apiece, and
pointed to the sign. They said they
didn't care a damn how much it cost.
and he served them. When they got
through one of them threw down a
quarter I think, to pay for ali, and
said Let the s. of a b. go TO HI
Then they walked out.
4 got the gun from my father and
went out to the corner behind them.
% BOYS I said, you'd better come and
pay for those drinks
Cursed Young Maddox.
TO hell with you, ycG - they
said. and just then one of them, the
little fellow. started toward me.
knew what he was irving to get at,
and I told him not to come any nearer
Then I felt something strike me on top
of the head / don't know whether II
was a shot or a rock. but I think
heard a report off to the right of me.
was too excited 20 remember, but
started to shoot.
sThe gun was a five-shooter, and
i enptied it. Then I went into the sa-
loon and got another gun. but before
fired any shots out of that a policeman
grabbed me and I turned it over TO
somebody, l don't know who. I took
my fathers part, and who wouldn't?
But I wish it had never happened.
was going out to the mine in Silver
City again in the morning, but ] can't
now, I guess.
While the young man was speaking
one OF his victims, Pearsall, was lying
on a table in the sergeant's room and
the other was in the patrol wagon on
the outside, both under instructions
from the doctor not to talk. But Pear
sail. in spite of the pain resultant upon
q compound fracture of the arm and
the more serious wound he sustained
told of the innocent part he played IN
the tragedy.
81 was on my way TO my room in