The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-09
MaIone's Story.

MaIone's Story.
when / was in Denver two years ago
said AIR Malone. II purchased from the
J. B. PaulsOn company ten poor anu biI-
J Hard tables. The purchase price OF lhsST
3 WAS S4a each. OF A,WJ for the ten
. Maid 81 so down on these, and gave my
notes for the balance
I "ShortIv afterwards ] shipped my ia
bIes to Salt Lake and moved mere,
+ stored the tables with the Redman an
I e storage company. They were De
stroyed in the fire which wiped out ine
/ Redman storehOuse- l was SICK VIZ
pneumonia at the time Neis Tau u' S;].o
/ came to my house and secured the IRE
/ insurance motley for $4,000 The tuli
. amount was allowed and Mr.. Paulson got
I the money , -
7 STr Paulson gave me fourteen inferior
/ tables. tables he sold for $50 each llese
| ables were very unsatlsldcluIy- OnS "a
Z them had been sold three times ana nad
s ,iy,-s,-s been sent back I found that I
[ had too many tables in my place ana !
sold one to Major Arrasmith Tor SZzo, -
less than Poulson's price. ! TINS 70
to Poulson's office and nat oe
. given credit for this pa un. one OF
nv notes This Poulson declined 10 90
saying he would give me credit Tor IL on
nv account. but not on either note
told of the sale of the table against
which he had lien. ana he consented 70
it, ! gave him the 80.
Later he learned that ! had been
purchasing billiard and pool supplies from
firms other than his. This made nm
/ sore and he went to Fort Douglas and
told Major Arrasnith that he had a lien
against this table When ] learned ne
had done this I tried to see nm, oul
I he always lodged me Yesterday 1 IlleQ
( to see him several times, but he would
not be seen.
'.FinaIIy I met Major Arrasmith and
went with him to Poulsons store lneIe
We had some words about this matter
/ PaulsOn refused to talk 10 me. lie go
out Of his chair and grabbed me by th'
J collar. declaring with an oath that h'
was going to Kill me. linen ! Grew ny
J gun and shot him I wanted to see the
matter settled and ! wanted to see an
end to the discussion
Major Arrasmith's Version.
Major James NJ Arrasmth Of the Fiji
: teenth infantry who was one of the Wit
, uesses to the tragedy Thursday evening
. I and who accompanied Mr.. Malone 10 IN
I Office Of Mr.. Pauson. said that the shoot
ing was one Of the most cOld-blOOded ar
I fairs which had ever came before his no
: / tice. He said Malone shot PaulsOn WITH
Z I out the least warning and without any ap
parent reason. Major ArrasmlUl slOTl
: of the shooting follows.
Some days ago the Officers club at tn
post purchased d billiard table from Mr.
5 Malone paving him SOS for the table. Z
: few DAYS after the table had been dellv
T cred to our club We were notified by Mr.
}. Paulson that he held a mortgage on tn
u table aud that Malone had sold il withou
c authority. ] was asked 10 look into tn
y matter and straighten IT out
g Thursday afternoon ! called on Mr
j. Malone and asked him whether or not Nh
PaulsOn had claim on the billiard table
7, He replied that he did have a claim on To
. table but that the money which the ON
70 Gers club had paid for the table was I'M
- mediately turned over 10 Mr. PaulsoE
Office then asked Malone 20 accompan
- me 10 Mr. PaulsOn'S office fOr the DurpOs
| Of getting the affair right. and thus d
| away with any further trouble that Nigh
| arise. Malone told me that he had sol
| the table with PaUsons consent an
! agreed to accompany me 10 his office
.-On arriving at Mr.. Paulson's Office
| explained to him that the table had bee
| purchased by the club in good faith an
told him IN detail OF the transaction. an
| he agreed that we were clear froI
| any wrong in the deal. ] told Mr. Pau
| soa that il Law between him and Mr.. Me
| lone to adjust tine difficulty and that "
had nothing more TO 90 with IT, L the
| turned away from Mr.. PaulsOn's desk an
Mr.. Malone and he began talking
The Quarrel.
Malone seemed enraged and angere
| for some reason. and his cOnversdtio
| from the start was filled with threats an
profanity lie called to the bOokkeept
and asked if he had not been paid eel
tain amount OF money. TO which the DOoi
| keeper replied that ne had. and that Il
amount had been credited 20 his accou1
/ Malone ASSUMED the air of an injured ma
and continued his use Of profsne languas
! toward Nj. Pa lsOn.
| &C. Now. don't Won set gay. Mr.. Malone
| said Mr.. Paulson. 10 which Malone r
| piled that he would get gay. and did NJ
| refrain from his vulgar speech. The
| was a woman ina the store az the time. al
| after all efforts to have M Malone r
| frain from his abusive language, Mr.. Pau
| son asked rim 60 step outside.
Mr.. Psulson arose from his chair al
! started for the front door He had ~
gone but few steps when 7 heard r
| Volver shot. Turning. ] heard Mr Pau
| son eXclsim 'Aly Cod he has shot ms
. and at the same time I saw Malone ma