The daily sentinel., 1906-08-14
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
Otto II. York Making Hard Struggle
to Recover-N1alIes State
ment Jealousy May
Have Played Its
Part.

Part.
q A telephone message from q
a Glenwood to the Sentinel at @
4 $3.50 o'clock states that York q
q is growing weaker hourly and q
q can survive but few hours q
q at the longest. 81
Otto II. York, the young man, for
merly of this city, who was shot on
Sunday night presumably 10y j. c.
Dun, at Glenwood Springs is still
alive.
At noon today a telephone mes
sage from Glenwood to the Sentinel
stated that York was making des-
perate struggle against death but
the physicians hold out no hope for
his recovery. The wounds in the alb
domen and bladder are of a very
grave nature and recovery is almost
impossible.
Last night on No Mrs York, the
aged mother of the injured man, ar
rived from Salt Lake and is at the
bedside of her son. She states that
she has some hopes of her sons re-
covery as he has a powerful consti-
tuition but she is almost alone in
the belief that York will live. The
odds are certainly against him.
The injured man has retained con-
seriousness up to this time. His suf-
ferings have been intense and he
realizes that he has but little show
to recover. The doctors have told
him that his chances are few
Mrs. York, the wife who was be
ing attacked by her drunken husband
when Duff interfered and the shoot
ing followed, is almost completely
prostrated over the affair and has
not been at the bedside of her prob
ably fatally wounded husband. 1t
is reported that although her hus-
band had brutally assaulted her on
the evening of the shooting, which
assault led to the interference by
]. C. Duff, the wife sympathizes with
her husband and is praying for his
recovery.
1t is rumored that York had ac-
cused his wife of being out the night
before the shooting with another
man and that in jealous rage made
more intense by his drunken condi-
tion York attacked his wife. York
Indicates in a general way that such
a state of affairs existed in a sworn
statement he gave out yesterday
morning. Justice Hedden took
York's deposition and he was made to
feel that 1t was his dying declaration
and is as follows;
"Glenwood Springs, Colo, Aug. 49,
1906.
81, Otto Henry York, believing
that it Is impossible for me to live
but short time, from the wound
with which | am now suffering. desire
to make the following statement with
reference to my condition and the
cause of it.
This man Dun was the man who
shot me l believe. i just simply went
down to get my ring from my wife
= would never went near her but
for this man, do not know his name
was with my wife, and If she had
given me my rings there would have
been no trouble. / do not know how
it happened that he shot me.
20. II. YORK"
1t is said that the cottage occupied
by York and his wife is a total wreck
most of the furniture being smashed
to pieces. The cottage and furnish.
ings belonged to DUFF. who is al
legged to have shot York. The Glen.
wood Avalanche states that Mr.. Dun
came to Glenwood four years ago and
purchased six cottages on River
Front and nicely furnished them and
lived off the income they brought
him. He is a man far past middle
age and has borne an excellent repu-
tation. He is still in Jail and refuses
to make any extended statement. He
simply states that he answered Mrs
York's call for help and the trouble
followed. He was painfully injured
by York who hit him with a stone.
The details of the shooting given
by the Sentinel yesterday are fur
ther confirmed.
b. York has been in the employ of II
B. Ikeler, a Glenwood plumbing man