Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-31
SALOONktEPER SHOT
WHEN He RESENTED
AN insult
Native Seriously Woun ds
Youth Who Objected to
Epithots Applied
to Him.
DOCTOR GIVES HOPE
FOR HIS RECOVERY
He Has a Chance 10 Recover Un-
less Complications Follow
Motive for the Shooting
Remains a
Mystery.


Leo Zanone. junior member of the
firm of Joshua zanone & Son. saloon
keepers, 1908 South Second street,
was shot shortly after noon today and
seriously, IL not fatally, injured. Louis
Baca of Santa Fl, Is in the county
Jail, charged with the shooting. His
victim is at st. Joseph's hospital un-
der the care of City Physician Pearce,
who says that his pa lent has a chanc
to recover.
SO far as can ce learned there
were no witnesses TO the shooting,
other than the principals. Accord
ing to the story Leo Zanone told his
father three minutes after the shoot
ing, Baca walked into the saloon
swearing. Zanone Tas behind the
bar.
II have something for you, you
- Baca is alleged to have said
as he walked up 10 the oar.
81 don't like that word you --
Greaser," Zanone is said to have an
swered.
With that Baca pslled pistol and
fired He then IL ned around and
walked quietly out # the place and
down the street. Ten minutes later
he entered the saloon of Frank Fran
carroll, at S2S South Second street. A
boy behind the b, "a fled in fright
when he saw him cSming. twenty-five
minutes after the shooting Baca was
arrested by Police officer Harry
Cooper on Third street block and a
half from the scene of the shooting.
Baca Reticient.
parently, and refused to discuss the
shooting He did not deny 1t and
when asked about the gun, said that
he would produce it at the proper
time. The gun had not been found
at o'clock. though the officers made
a diligent search for it. 1t is believed
to have been a 3S-caliber. A small
boy living in the neighborhood of the
saloon where the shooting occurred,
told the officers that he saw Baca
give the pistol to another native, but
this man could not be located. Baca
was hurried to the city jail and later
taken to the county Jail for safe keep
ing. His only request was that his
relatives at Santa Fe be notified
Zanone Called for His Father.
X. ]. Duggan, a boilermaker, who
was standing about thirty yards from
the Zanone saloon at the time of the
shooting, was the first person to
reach the wounded man. Duggan said
that Baca passed out of the saloon as
he went in. There rs a thin board
partition between the front door and
the oar. AS he reached the door in
this partition. he met Leo Zanone. The
lot pIa h 10 d sp Ia arf
and said that he was shot.
'I am killed" Duggan says the in
jured man said. "Call papa. He shot
door through which Baca had Just
passed.
Duggan says that he pushed the boy
into chair, secured wet towel and
placed It over the wound.
The elder Zanone was helf asleep
in a barber chair in a barber shop
next to his saloon at the time of the
shooting. He was aroused and told
that his son was shot. The old man
would not believe it at first. He rush
ed to the saloon, half shaved. and
found his son sitting in a chair, with
a stream of blood flowing down his
chest.
A boy was sent on a bicycle to
summon City Physician Pearce. The
sheriff's office and police station were
notified by telephone. DR.. Pearce,
Deputy Sheriff Fred Heyn and PO-
liceman Harry Cooper took the same
ear to the scene of the shooting. The
officers soon learned that Baca was
still in the neighborhood and in an
ticipation of trouble, loosen their pis-
tolls in their holsters. Baca was
traced down the street to the Frac-
aroli saloon, through an alley and out
on to Third street. where he was TAX
en- into custody without trouble. He
had about IS in money and a few
papers In his pockets.
After making a hurried examina-
tion of the wound, DR.. Pearce ordered
an ambulance and mad Zan0ne taken
to the hospital.
The Bullet Removed.
Zanone suffered excruciating pains
but remained conscious all the way
to the hospital and bore the probing
of the bullet with set teeth. The
bullet entered the left breast about a
half inch below the collarbone passed
over the heart cavity, through the
upper part Of the left lung, and lodg-