The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-13
NEGRO SHOOTS
TO KILL IN ROW
OVER A WAGER
Buck Staten MOrtaIIy Wound
ed by Jerry ShOn in No
tOriouS Dive.
C0L0RED MEN SCRAMBLE
TO GET OUT OF RANGE
MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO HOOD
WINK POLICE AND COVER
UP REAL FACTS.

Henry Staten. cOlored. was shot and IA
tally wounded al 10:3O last night. by
Jerry ShOn, a colored jockey. The shoot
ing occurred in the saloon of Candy
Bill Mackenzie, a notorious negro dive
at SO Commercial street After the shoot
ing Shon made his escape from the sa-
loon and is still at large. Staten was
taken to St Marks hospital. At an early
hour this morning but little hope of his
recovery was expressed by attending ply
sicians
The shooting was over a Sl2 bet in
crap game in the gambling house in the
basement Of Mackenzie's saloon. Staten
made bet of 80 on a throw of the dice
and before ShOn could cover il he started
to pick up the money. AS he did so. ShOn
drew his gun. Staten turned and start
ed to run up the stairs into the saloon
Before he had gone far ShOn fired two
shots. One of the bullets entered his
back on the right side below the ribs.
II ranged upward and emerged through
his right lung The other bullet struck
the stairway near Staten as he fell
grOaning on the stairs.
ShOn rushed up the stairway past the
PROSTATE form of his victim and out
through the front door of the saloon into
Commercial street. Whittier he went
after that has not been learned by the
police. though Ii Is thought he went to the
resort at IS commercial street OF winch
his wife is an inmate
At the police station Candy Bill Mac
kenZle, a notorious negro of the under
world and the proprietor Of the dive in
which the shooting occurred, told the po-
lice that the shooting occurred in the
saloon proper. He said that it was the re-
suit of an old quarrel between the two
men, that Staten had owed ShOn a dollar
in San Francisco and that for some rea-
son they had quarreled over it last night.
Other negroes in the saloon verified the
story told by Candy Bill" and the pO-
lice were so completely hoodwinked by
the story that neither the saloon nor the
gambling house downstairs were closed
because OF the tragedy.
Scramble Out Of Range.
All of those i'm the bar room, as soon
as they saw that ShOn had a gun. fell
over themselves in an effort TO get QUO
of range. Some crawled under the pool
table. Others went behind the bar. and
the rest scrambled out the door. No one
has been found who was an eye witness
to the actual shooting.
The negroes in the room say that they
heard the two shots, but were unable TO
say whether Shon fired both of the shots
or only one. No gun was found on Sta
ten when he was brought to the EmeT-
sency hospital at the police station, and
the probabilities are that both shots wee
fired by Sho1, though only one took
effect
After shon-had made his escape through
the front entrance the negroes in the
room looked after Staten. who was ~
ing on the floor grooming. He was taken
in hack to the Halliday drug store and
several men were sent to look for doc
tor. From the drug store the wounded
man was taken to the police station. The
first iDtimation the police had of the
shooting was when the wounded man was
taken to the Emergency hospital.
DR.. II. 3. SpTague. who was at the Salt
Lake theatre. was called to the police
station and dressed the wound. The bull
let which struck Staten passed through
the entire BODY. From the appearance OF
the wounds IL Is probable that Staten
was shot through the back, as he was
attempting to escape from ShOn. The
bullet passed through the liver. ranging
upward and through the right lung.s The
wounds bled profusely and Staten also
suffered from internal hemOrThages
Hysterical Woman Appears.
While Staten was IL the emergency hos
pitai a woman. living at ~ Victoria al
ley. who said that she was Statens wife,
came rushing into the police station She
was screaming Historically and demand
ing that she be taken to her husband.
1t was with considerable difficulty that
the police were able TO keep her out OF
the hospital until after the wounds OF
Staten were dressed. When he was ia
ken to ST. Mark hospital in the patrol