The age-herald., 1900-01-14
TWO EDITORS ARE SHOT BY ATTORNEY Affair Occurred in Office of The
 Evening Post. WOUNDS ARE NOT FATAL. Five Shots Were Fired by Anderson and Three Took Effect in the
 Bodies of the Editors Con-
 ficting Stories
WOUNDS ARE NOT FATAL.

Denver, Col, January 13.-Fred. G. Bonn fills and H. H. Tammen proprietors of the Evening Post, were both shot in their office at noon today by w. w. Anderson, a prominent local attorney. It is not be- lieved that either was mortally injured Both were able to walk to carriages that conveyed them home.
 After the shooting Anderson walked out of the office unmolested, but was later ar rested.
 The exact cause of the shooting is not known. Anderson went to the editorial room of the Post, and entered the office of Bonfis and Tammen. Polly Pry, we'll known newspaper woman, was also in the room.
 It is understood that Anderson objected to something that had appeared in the Post, and demanded a reltraction, and that Bonfis and Tammen both attempted to put him out of the office He then commenced to shoot.
 As we was leaving the Post office the lawyer said that both B'onfils and Tammen attacked him and he used revolver in self defense.
 Tammens and Bonfils say that Anderson walked into their office and commenced shooting without warming
 "Anderson came in and commenced shoot ing at once," said Tammen. "He shot Bon fills and then came after me. He followed me up and hemme1 me in one of the cor- ners Polly Pry jumped in front of me and tried to shield me. She saved me from being killed although she could not protect me from being shot.
 Anderson Fired Five Shots Anderson fired five shots. Two of them are said to have wounded Bonhls, one III the side and the other in the arm. Tammen was shot in the shoulder, the Sullet going into his breast. The physicians from their a;asty examinations declared the wounds were not dangerous, although closer ex- animation might show them to be other wise , Attorney Anderson, who contended that he had been roughly handled, refused 10 talk when seen at the police station
 It is learned the propretors of the Post and Anderson quarrelled over aba Packer case. Anderson had been ernpsc6sd as an attorney in behalf of Packer, known as the "Cannibal," who is serving a term in prison for murder, aSd for whom the Post has been endeavoring to obtain a pardon.
 John F. Carroll, managing editor of the Pest, made the following statement in re- gard to the causes leading up to the af- fair:
 ''The Packer case was at the bottom of the difficulty. Anderson, who was Packer s attorney, believed that ne could open the ease again on the ground that Packer had been convicted in a state court whereas his crime had been committed on a gov ernment reservation and that, correctly, he should nave been held to trial by the United States authorities.
 .'The Post agreed to help him to reopen the case on these grounds if he would con sent to let l. N. Stevens, the Posts attor- ney direct the case. To this Anderson agreed.
 Poly Pry' visited Packer and discov- cred that Anderson fad recei.as. $25 from n.m to be used in the prosecution Jf the case.
 Anderson said that he was one of the directors of the Post and as the Post has clhampioned his cause, Packer turned oyer the money.
 After learning that Anderson had mis- represented tCle facts to him, Packer re- voked Andersons authority to act as at torney for him.
 "Anderson's action severely incensed MT Tammen and MT. Bonfls, and they went for Anderson. They charged him with the false representations he had made and a quarrel ensued." @
 Both of the wounded publishers are rest. ing comfortably toniscrt. Mr. Tanners injuries, though painful, are not senIous AIr. Bon6lS' wounds are critical.