The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-30
TALK LED TO SHOTS TOO FREE WITH Gun
COLIK IN MINNEAPOLIS
SALOON
DISPUTE OVER ANARCHIsM
Hogan Says Victim Was in sympathy
With Anarchy and Threatened
to Kill Him COlik
May Recover.

Sam Hogan, a teamster, 10 years of age,
employed by c. A. Carlson, liveryman
at 102 First street north, shot and danger
ously wounded Peter Colik, farm hand,
% years of age, who arrived yesterday
from Willow River Mimi, in a saloon
row at Peter Blair's place, % Bridge
Square, Minneapolis about $3.50 yesterday
morning. Hogan fired two shots from II
3S-caltber revolver point blank at Colik,
one taking effect in his right arm. break
ing it, and the other lodging in his right
breast just above the nipple.
Patrolman J. j. Rhoades happened to
be passing Blair's saloon when he heard
the report of a revolver. Hurrying
around the corner of First street he
rushed into the side door used as Sum
day entrance and just in time to see
Hogan put second bullet into Colik' S
body, this one entering his right breast,
and is the most dangerous. The man
with the gun was overpowered and the
weapon taken from him. He was taken
to the central station and charged with
an assault with dangerous weapon.
Hogan when seen at the police station
said he shot Colik because he said he
(Colik) believed in anarchy and had
threatened his life. There were about a
dozen or fifteen men in the saloon, all
more or less under the influence of liquor
There is wide difference in the stories
of the witnesses to the shooting as to
the circumstances leading up to the
bloody encounter. Every man in the sa-
loon was badly frightened when Hogan
brandished the revolver, and when Pa
trolman Rhoades entered the saloon he
found them hiding under counters and ia
bles, and those who could make their
exit did so hurredly.
The prisoner says the shooting was the
result of a drunken argument, starting
on the nationality issue and ending with
Coliks declaration that he was a be-
lever in anarchy and making a threat
upon Hogans life. Hogan, interviewed
in his cell, said:
81 left Carlson's barn early yesterday
morning with the revolver in my pocket
to kill diseased horse ate breakfast,
and after stopping at lower Nicollet
avenue saloon went over to Blair's place,
where I met a friend named Nels.
There we had three or four drinks,
and then this man asked us to drink with
him. We had four or five drinks and
Nels left the place The stranger and
got into an argument. He asked me what
L was and 1 told him L was Irish He
said he was a Russian-Pole
Are you an anarchist? [ asked No,
but [ believe in it, and I would just as
soon kill you as not. You're only one,
said the stranger to me.
THEN SHOOTING BEGAN.
The man L shot made a move as though
ne was going after a gun, and stepped
up to me. [ pulled my revolver out of
bicycle tool bag and let go at him. Then
when he came toward me again. shot
him again. The policeman then grabbed
me and took the gun away from me.
thought he was an anarchist and was
going to kill me, and that's the reason
L shot him. [ was drunk and so was
he. If [ hadn't been drunk 1 wouldn't
have used the gun on him.
When Hogan fired at Colik, the latter
was about three PAGES away from him.
After firing the first shot he stepped back
about two PAGES, and when the second
shot was fired he was about fifteen feet
from his victim. He had the gun raised
a third time, the officer says, to shoot
again, when the weapon was wrested
from his hand
The bartender, Ole Jacobson, and the
lunch counter attendant, were both hid
ing under the bar when officer Rhoades
entered. But in spite of their efforts
to protect themselves from harm, they
claim to know everything that happened
before and during the shooting. Both
are emphatic in their statements that
no words passed between the two princi-
pals of the shooting. They claim that
there was no row among the men in the
saloon before the shooting, but their
statements do not seem to have any
weight against the statement of the Off
Ger, the prisoner and others who were
in the bar room.
Bartender Jacobson said there were not
more than five men in the saloon when
Hogan shot Colik. Patrolman Rhoades
has the names of the following Witness
es to the affair who heard the conversa-
ton between the two men and saw the
shooting afterward: Gust Sands, Nels
Moss, COL Jackson street northeast; Max
Kuhn and Nels Hanson, two transient
section hands; Erick Oman, 240S Forty
fourth avenue north, and HiIe Perry, 1855
TWenty-fourth street south.
VICTIM MAY RECOVER
Colik, the victim of the ARRAY, was
placed under the influence of opiates and
the bullets removed from his wounds.
The doctors believe that his chances of
recovery are even, if no bad complica-
tons set in.