Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-12
Armed With Loaded Winchester
Rifle He Runs Amuck
On West Temple.
ONE MAN BADLY WOUNDED.
John Wolf, or St. Joseph, Fires
Five Shots In Crowded
Street This Morning.
Mary Citizens Have Narrow Escape
From Death-Ricllard Dronc In
Hospital With Hole In Leg.

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Hospital With Hole in Leg.
Filled with an insane desire to MUIR
II der, which condition was brought on
& by q protracted spree and other ex-
n cesses, young man who claims his
4 name is st. Joseph, but whois sup
4 posed to be John Wolf OF Plain City.
aged about 81 years, ran amuck on
West Temple street between South
Temple and First South this morning
4 shortly before IL o'clock, wounded one
man and barely missed killing three
( other persons.
Armed with Il 70 model Winchester
rifle he stood In front of Tom Buffers
4 second hand store, Sc south West Tenn
Il PIE street and poured a stream of fire
@at persons across the street He shot
& Richard Drone through the calf of the
right leg and undoubtedly would have
murdered half a dozen others had not
"a cartridge damned in the gun when
she was trying TO reload.
Ihe prompt action of Charles s.
\ Seals. a colored man who was special
policeman during the convention OF
sIhe u G. T., and Patrolnan Charles
Pitts, prevented tho insane man from
45,a,slodglng the famed cartridge re-
Ffiioa ding and carrying out his murder
5tous Intentions. Just as the man was
getting the cartridge out of the gun
preparatory to filing the magazine.
seals ,leaped upon him and held him
8 UNI. Fatrolman Pitts arrived and the
gun was taken from the fellow,
TWO OTHER VICTIMS.
addition to manning one victim.
ANOTHER bullet penetrated the coat OF;
sidney Jones of Tucker Utah, mar
let passed through the skirt OF Mrs
Ark of 764 West First South street.
Just gazing her leg. She did not dis
cover that she had so narrowly escap-8
ed injury until some time after the
shooting. when she noticed a hole in
her skirt Just above her knee where
the bullet entered and another bullet
hole where 1t passed out
In sofne way. Wolf retained pos
session of a razor when he was taken
to his cell. Chief Pitt was aroused
by the cries of4otfler prisoners In the
Jail and he found Wolf chasing them
about the cell corridor with the razor.
when he went to see what was caus-
ing the disturbance. AT the point OF
his revolver, Chief Pitt forced Wolf
to surrender his razor Two Of the
prisoners has barely escaped being cut
with the weapon and they We're una BILE
TO seize the man and confined their
efforts to escaping him. Lieutenant
John Hempel says that Wolf was ar
rested in this city about three months
ago for drunkenness.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT
The shooting caused intense excite
ment and hundreds We're upon the
scene a few seconds after the shots
pnf IN Too.
headquarters that several persons had
been killed by a crazy man. Patrol
Driver George Moore. with half doz-
en- policemen and a News reporter
hurried to the scene as fast as the
horses could gal1op The street was
swarmed with excited people and there
We're angry mutterings against the
crazed man who did the shooting
At the Salt Lake Livery and Trans
fer barn Patrolman Pitts and Sergeant
Beckstead had the man in custody.
In a grocery store on First South and
West Temple Drone was sitting In a
chrir bleeding profusely from tho
wound.
SENT TO HOSPITAL.
The prisoner and the wounded man
We're hurried to police headquarters.
st. Joseph was locked in a cell and
Drolte was removed to the emergency
Ills sEWOuIiu w li ssSSu
by Jailer Ripley after which Dr. Stew
art was summoned and the man was
semi to st. Marks hospital. His wound
is painful though not serious. The
bullet passed entirely through the
fleshy part of the right leg between the I
ankle and the knee and missed the
BONG. Drone lost great deal of blood
and much of the life fluid was spread
over the sidewalk in front of the gro-
Gerry store After being shot Drone
walked distance of about so yards.
j That ST. Joseph, or Wolf, is insane
there Is no doubt whatever. The man
had Eeen drinking for a couple of days
End vas in a most vicious humor. Two
days ago he went into Buffers second
hand store and offered for sale a Win
chester rifle and about 81 cartridges,
Butler gave the man $3.50 for the weap-
OH and it was understood that St,
1osepl; would purchase the gun back.
Las. evening he called upon Butler for
tic gun but did not have the money.
This morning he returned and asked
the store keeper what he wanted for
Lhn gun. Butler told him It would cost
81. The fellow then asked for the gun
and Immediately began loading it. He
put five cartridges fn the magazine,
put - cartridges In his pocket threw
down q 81 bill and 20 cents in silver
and started out OF the store. Butler
him to stop, but ST. Joseph
turned upon him with an angry snarl
and said:
WHEN SHOOTING BEGAN.
Don't you follow me, you - or III |
XIII YOU" He then begaii shooting.
Turning the deadly weapon from left
to right he began pulling the trigger
He fired the five shots. One OF them
missed Pop" Smith. who Is
al the Gardner printing Of
fee, and another barely missed Mrs
Smith and went crashing through
window III the Nelden-Judson Drug /
building across the street
Another bullet struck just behind |
Drone and the other struck him in the
right leg.
After exlnaustlng the five cartridges
his eyes blazing with an insane fury,
and with the avoW.sd intention of MUIR
der;ng. any one who got In his way. st.
Joseph began to reload the gun. The
first cartridge he placed in the ma ga
zine became fast and before he could |
disIodge IT., Seals. the colored man.
bravely rushed upon the Infatuated fell
low and seized him. Patrolmar Pitts
rushed to the assistance of Seals, while
Butler took the rifle St. Joseph was
hurried to the livery stable ard held
here until the arrival of the patrol
Magon. The police then Went to the |
grocery store and placed Drone On q !