The Glenwood post., 1906-08-18
WOUNDED
IN TRIVIAL AFFAIR
Otto York While intoxicated and in
QudrreISOme Mood is Shot three
Times in Stomach and Can
Not Recover
YORK HAD BEEN BEATING HIS WIFE

AS the outcome of drunken row
with his wife last Sunday evening
Otto H. York was shot three times by
James Duff and has since been hover
ing between life and death at the
Glenwood sanitarium and while ply
sicians have from Sthe first declared
that he had but a short and feeble
hold on life the fellow still lives al,
though the end is hourly expected.
York has had frequent spats with
his wife whom he intimates has not
been a model in chastity and Sunday
evening he learned that Mrs, York
went into the pool with "A strange
man. In attempting to drown his
sorrow in the usual fashion he was i'll
an ugly mood and determined rs he
says, to get his belongings and leave
town. He went to his home in one
of the Duff cottages and got his clothes
but could not find a valuable diamond
ring which he had given to his wife
for safe keeping. Later he returned
and finding Mrs York at home de,
mandel the ring which she refused to
give him and then the row began.
York knocked his wife down and
then chased her from the house clad
only in her night dress. The woman's
cries brought to her aid James Duff,
the owner of the cottages in which
the Yorks had lived. 1t is claimed
that Mr.. Dun fired two shots in the
air to attract tine police and frighten
York away but he was not easily
frightened and aftersmashing furniture
to his hearts content York started
down Seventh street toward the bust
ness portion of town.
When opposite the Baldwin cottages
over block away Duff overlook York
and struck Duff with rock or club,
knocking him down. Then the two
men cinched and in the struggle
Duff s revolver, from which he had
fred the first two shots was discharged
three times, each shot taking effect in
York s abdomen.
The man was at once brought to the
Glenwood sanitarium where Dr. Berry
assisted by Doctors Clark and Crook
performed an operation and made
search for the bullets. One of the
wounds was superficial, the ball hav-
ing entered the abdomen and passed
out within four inches doing no harm
Either of the other wounds was
| Il. l,o ,; q,
punctured the intestnes and the other
the bladder.
Mrs Louis York, the wounded mans
mother arrived Tuesday morning from
Salt Lake and has been constantly at
the bedside OF her son. Tuesday the
man was visited by his wife but the
meeting was far from soothing to the
mans nerves and she has since been
denied admission to his room. AT
this meeting York begged his wife to
give him the ring that he might apply
it ON the expenses of his Illness but
she remained untouched by his pitful
entreaties and resolutely and unfeel-
ingly refused his request.
The next day the mother visi tied
Yorks wife and begged her to please
her husband by allowing him to wear
the ring the short time he had to live.
The request was fatty refused. The
mother law was ordered from the
premises.
Soon after the shooting Duff was
arrested and placed in Jail but was
afterwards released on bonds. There
is one phase of the affair that looks
bad for Duff and that is that after
York had started and was nearly a
block away from the first trouble Duff
followed and fired the fatal shots.
Duff explains this by saying he want
ed to keep as close to York as possible
10 that as soon as an officer could be
, found he could have the fellow placed
under arrest He says when York
saw him coming after him he turn I'd
and assaulted him Duff with rock
when they clinched and in the strug
gle the gun was discharged. York
| made an ante mortem statement in
which he says he does not know why
Duff shot him. Duff has always borne
good reputation and has many
friends here who sympathize with him
in this unfortunate mixup and believe
he will be able to justify his actions.
York is a plumber and had worked
/ for the last sixty days for II B. keller.
, who says he was a first class work
man and always pleasant and agree
able except when intoxicated.