The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-03
FOUGHT HOODOO BILL
superintendent Effinger Slugs
a Hack Driver.
THEN OFFICER APPEARS
MINING MEN FELLED WITH A
CLUB.

A short but fistic fight, in which o
prominent mining man and a hao :
driver attempted to annihilate each othe.
was pulled of on the Kenyon corner
early this morning. Both men went
to the ground under the fierce exchange
of blows and some blood was drawn on
both sides. but the mining man de-
clared his was spilled by a blow over
the head from Policeman Smiths billy.
which he declares the officer used
without any provocation. The mining
man gave his name as NJ. L. Effnger,
the superintendent Of the Ophir mine,
and the hack driver was VIII West
colt. commonly known as Hoodoo
Bill The trouble it is alleged. started
over the hack, which the driver claims
the mining man wanted him TO take
of the street.
According to the story of the driver.
Efinger and several other mining men
were standing on the corner when he
drove up and asked them if they were
waiting for "A car, volunteering the in
formation that the last car had gone.
He alleges that Effinger retOrted that
they knew that without having to be
told by a hack driver and wanted To-
know if he was trying to get a j0b.
Bill says Efhnger, calling him a
name. said ne wouldn't ride in his
hack ana ordered him to get his rig
off the street. The driver refused and
he alleges that Effinger, calling him a
vile name, jerked off his coat and
dashed at him. striking him 2 blow ia
the head and sent him spinning to the
ground under mis- horses feet. The next
blow WAS from the driver end tNe min
ing man went to the sidewalk, but was
W again and the two cuncned ana were
trying to puiY erie each Other when Or
0a
cOllared Efinger.
The latter and his friends declare
that smith brought his club down on
the mead of the mining man with a
thud that sent him to the sidewalk an
ended the fight. Ef1nger was then con
Quoted to the police station. He de-
clared that Smith had struck him pur-
pOsely and without any cause whatever
and they were emphatic in their denun-
citation of what they called brutality
on the part of the officer.
Smith stated that he did not strike
the man to knock him down, but that
in siezing him his club swung over his
hand and struck Efinger d light blow.
The officer declared that the mining
man resisted him and several others
who Witnessed the affair said the officer
was justified in all he did.
Neither of the men was hurt beyond
few slight scratches that started the
blood and as the evidence seemed to
show that Effinger started the fight he
was booked on a charge of fighting,
which, it is said, will be changed to as
sauIt and battery, and "HoOdoo Bill
was allowed to so.
Emnger put up so for his appear
ance in police court. AS he left he de-
clared that he would see that Smith
got his deserts for pounding him on
the head with his club.
Efinger said that the trouble was
started by the hack driver. who, he
says, began to squa bible with him about
the hack and became Overbearing in his
manner. He declared that Bill had
forced the trouble over nothing at all
and struck him first, and he was forced
to do what he did simply to protect
himself. His friends all declared that
the driver started the trouble and that
Emnger was forced into it in self de
Tense