The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-27
MURDEROUS FIGHT
AMONG NEGROES
Two Men Have Quarrel Over a
Woman and Pump Lead
at Each Other.
PRESS JACKSON STOPS
THREE LEADEN PELLETS
Lies at st. Marks in a Critical
Condition: Antagonist Is
in Jail.

his hfpS ana leSss duu H'N' .
rests behind the bars Of the clty jan
with wound in his left leg, the net
results Of shooting fray between
Jackson and Harris on Franklin avenue
early Tuesday morning.
Harris's wound is not CONSIDERED
dangerous unless blood poisoning should
set in. but Jackson s condition is crit
ical and he may die. woman, Jennie
Harris, was concerned In the shootlng,
and she, TOO. is in jail. unhurt. Elmer
Easter. a star witness of the gun play,
was arrested Immediately after the
shooting. but WINS released. The tonr
belong 10 the elite of Franklin avenue
tho Fsocial'' center of Darktown IN
Salt Lake.
The shooting occurred at So Frank
lin avenue about o'clock. The cause
was bad blood and jealousy between
Jackson and Harris that had existed
for some time. II is said. ACCORDING 10
Harris s story, Jackson early lnesday
morning sent Easter TO the room occu-
pied by Harris and the woman with a
request for an interview with Harms.
Harris sent word back that If Jackson
desired TO see him he would have TO
come 10 him in the room. jackson. ac-
companied by Easter, acted on the sug-
gestion.
Shooting Opens interview.
Jackson opened the desired interview
with shots from 8 3S-cahber revolver,
prefaced by few remarks 81 ought
10 kill von' - snarled Jackson 10 Har-
ris Harris replied TO the snarl with
a laugh but the laughter ended abrupt
" in the wild scramble for 8 hiding
place from the bullets that were sing
ing through the air and burying them
selves in the woodwork when they
didn t bury themselves some place else
Jackson s weapon missed FIRE the first
time. but the bullet ploughed through
Harris s left leg al the second attempt
Jackson kept on pulling at the trigger,
but the gun failed 10 FIRE four times.
The failure of Jackson's gun to re-
spond gave Harris a respite and the
latter grabbed up his long barreled 3S !
caliber Colt s revolver and Immediately
got some action. In the exchange of
shots Harris pumped four bullets at
jackson. three of the leaden pellets
taking effect. Jackson took six shots
at Harris but five times his aim was
defective
The police got word of the shooting
at once and Sergeant Jsnney and Of
fcer johnson, with the patrol wa gon,
dashed 10 the scene The four were
taken in charge and hustled to the po-
lice station. Easter. who claims to be
employed at the University club, was
released the woman was held DR.. |
Samuel G. Paul was called and after a |
hasty examina ton of Jackson s wounds
ordered him transferred 20 st. Mark s !
hospital. Harris wound was attend
ed to at the emergency hospital of the
city Jail.
Jackson Wounded Thrice.
An artery in Jackson s right leg was |
severed by one Of the bullets from Har-
ris's weapon and Jackson suffered a
heavy loss of blood. weakening him
greatly. One of Jackson s hips bore a
severe wound where a bullet had
ploughed through the flesh.
The Harris woman, whose affections
each was striving TO gain and hold, was
the primary cause OF the duel, She
does not claim to he Harris s wife, but
says they are engaged. Jackson is
married, his wife being the woman,
Myrtle Powell. who was fined $50 in
Judge Diehl s court Tuesday afternoon
for vagraney.
The shooting caused bunch of ex-
citement In the Immediate neighbor-
hood, men. women and children fleeing
from their several places of abode in
numbers as shot after shot rang out on
the morning air. The wonder is that
the Harris woman, who was in the
room with Harris when the shooting
occurred, was not killed, or at least
wounded Jackson 8 exit from the
house was marked by trail of blood
DR.. Paul probed for and removed
the bullet from Jackson s left leg but
could not locate the one in the right
hip, which, he says, buried itself deep
IN the flesh. Jackson S right leg bears
a wound, but the surgeon said he could
not tell with certainty whether a third
bullet had struck Jackson there or
whether the bullet that was taken from
3he H ieIt leg had produced that wound.
before Jackson s chances to recover
can be estimated with any certainty.
he thinks that if poisoning does not
set 10, jackson is likely to live He
examined and attended to Harris 6
WOUND again Tuesday night and does
not regard MN as In any great danger,
Harris's Story.
O., According to a story told Chief
saset Sheets by Harris. the trouble that
night. Jackson took The Harris woman
to has room and Harris found it out.
Armed with big gun, he went to Jack
SON 8 room and marched the woman
from ". jackson apparently resented
Harris g actions and, according to Har
ris, when he entered the Iatter's room
Tuesday morning told Harris that he
hadn't treated him just right in TAX
ing, the woman away from him Monday
night Harris told him, he said, that
If he had done anything out of the
way he was willing to offer an apology
The proffered apology didn t appease
jackson s lacerated feelings and it
wasn't long until he began his gun
play.
1t Is seid that Harris, who was in
bed when Jackson entered his room.
had his revolver underneath his pillow,
Harris was in his nightie and got out
OF bed Tar enough to sit up on the bed
rail before Jackson began to cut sIups
around him, One story has it that