The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-05

Claude Lyons, r young painter shot
his supposed friend, Charles Gardi-
ner in the Bon-Ton saloon on the
Bowery yesterday afternoon and was
in turn shot before he could again
use the weapon which he was flour
ishng before the barroom crowd by
Cap Welch, another bartender in the
saloon.
Thought Both Men Dying,
on accountlof the holiday the
Bowory and the Bowery resorts were
crowded and the shooting in The
saloon quickly brought crowd to
the door. Gardiner. the bartender,
was bleeding profusely at the back
Of his head where the bullet entered
and from the front whore It came
out but had not lost consciousness.
A hack was hurried TO the door and
he was Immediately taken down town
for surgical attention. From the ap-
pearance Of the wound at the time
all thought that he had but few
minutes to live
Lyons dropped on the floor where
he had been struck and from the
Jagged wound In his neck made by
the forty-five caliber revolver IN tho
, hands OF Welch, blood streamed out.
The shock Of the bullet where 10
struck the muscles of his neck par
TALLY paralyzed him and both he and
the men in the room thought that
he was dying , n.
Officer Earnest Hughes reached
the saloon Just as Gardiner was being
taken away. He Immediately placed
Welch under arrest and with, the as
sistance of officer Bolton who ar
rived In a few minutes detained the
men in the saloon till their names
could be taken for use ip, summon
Ing witnesses. Then WEIGH and the
wounded man we're taken to the
courthouse and a number Of the wit
nesses we're given notice to. apnear
for examination at once, >f7
Wounds Not Fatal.
A fraction Of an. inch either way
up or down with the bullet that
struck Gardiner could hardly have
failed in killing him or terribly
manning him. when Or. Shirley
completed the examination in his .op-
Grating room after the wounded man
was brought down town, he found
that the ball ranged around from
back OF the ear across the face and
under the nose but had apparently
not directly damaged any important
organ or touched his brain. GarGi-
ner retained consciousness through
out the dressing of the wound and
with the assistance OF his compan-
ions was able to walk back to the
hack to be taken to his room. He
was partially dazed and suffered a
steady dull ache from the shock of
the wound.
At the jail, Lyons the other
wounded man was placed in the
downstairs room The shock of the
big forty-five bullet in his neck still
left him partially paralyzed and he
had not yet sobered up from the ef-
fects of his drinking. He was un-
doubtedly seriously hurt but his at
tendants did not consider the wound
critical
Gardiner and Lyons Were Friends.
Never knew OF a thing between
them and thought they was just like
brothers" said Cap WEIGH, the bar
tender who brought down Lyons aft
er he shot Gardiner Yesterday after
noon few minues after the shoot
ing, in answer to 3 question about
the cause of the shooting Welch
is the other bartender in the Bon-Ton
saloon. Lyons and Charley was the
hest of friends SO far as ] could
know Lyons was all the time run.
ming into the saloon and him and
Charley Just got along the best kind
OF course you can always tell about
a persons private affairs and trou
bles but nothing surprised me more
than that they should have trouble
Charley wasn't expecting trouble al
all and when Lyons run out of the
back room Charley had his hands
down under the bar opening a bottle
OF beer and Lyons said something
and leaned over and shot him and
then turned around and said he'd
shoot anyone in the barroom. Their
shot him before he could hurt any
body else.
We're Drunk,
A very pertinent feature Of the
shooting was the fact that appar'