Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-22
BRENNAN IS DEAD
FROM HIS WOUND
Bartender Shot by Negro Lover
OF Ray Woods in Duel
Saturday Night.
POLICE EXPECTED TROUBLE
patrolman Patterson Was Told by
Woods Woman of the Negroes
Threat Against His Victim.

IN pistol duel between John p
brennan. a white man. and bartender
nv occupation. and Roy Armstrong a
negro. occurring at West Temple street
and Postofiice Place. about 1870
o'clock Saturday night. and in which
eight shots were fired. both men were
wounded. Brennan fatally, dying this
Morning shortly after Q o'clock. Two
bullets were fred into the body OF
Brennan and three into the negro.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Within an hour after the death OF
John r. Brennan from the bullet
wounds inflicted by Roy Armstrong, a
engro, In the pistol duel OF Saturday
night a complaint was sworn to by
Detectivs Harry Curran charging Arm
strong with murder In the first degree.
living in st. Marks hospital with a
badly shattered arm and two other bull
Tet wounds I'm his body, the negro Is
under sheriffs guard pending his suf-
0cient recovery to be removed TO the
county jail.
The matter OF issuing a complaint
against Ray Wood. the white mistress
81 the negro. charging her with be
ing an accessory to the murder Of
brennan is being considered by the of
sfials. The woman is still detained
In the city Jail as a material witness
in the shooting ARRAY
The trouble which ended in the shoot
ing is said TO have begun over Ray
woods. a notorious woman of the un-
derworld and the white mistress OF the
negro The woman, who Is held - iail
as a witness. alleges that she mad been
insulted by Brennan and that her lover
resented IL.
Brennan. accompanied by his wife,
had been in the L. p. Robinson drug
store Saturday when Armstrong. with
the Woods woman with him, saw them.
Lying in wait behind tree until Mr..
and Mrs. Brennan came out to the
street Armstrong stepped out and the
shooting began with an immediate ex-
change OF bullets that made II doubt
tll a. to who first fired.
AS the shooting began George j stat
ford former member of the fire de-
partment rushed up and grappled with
Armstrong taking the revolver fropl
him. and Patrolman @. A. Patterson,
who had anticipated trouble between
the men and who had been watching
them, as quickly reached Brennan.
PATTERSON KNEW OF TROUBLE.
Earlier in the evening the Woods
woman had told Patterson that Bren-
nan had insulted her and that Arm
strong had threatened 10 get even with
him.
Brennan and his wife were In the
Robinson Drug store" says Patrolman
Patterson, and fearing that there
would be trouble. | called Motorcycle
Patrolman Dan Grundvig, who was Ia
the neghborhood. Before we reached
the drug store where Mr., and Mrs,
Brennan were drinking something al
a soda fountain. I saw Brennan come
out We were still two or three hun
bred feet away when the shooting com
menced We could see the two women
run and hear them scream. and finally
Brennan and Armstrong fell In n heap.
stafford. the fireman, wrcnched the
revolver from the negro and took the
revolver from the white man. Both
were still struggling and | doubt II
either realized having been shot. AS
near as I could learn, the trouble he
tween the negro and Brennan began
Friday night and that II was renewed
early last night. I am satisfied that the
negro had been following Brennan. He
Is had man and when | came on my
beat ! tried to md him"
The two men were taken to the Elmer
eency hospital and then to 81. Marks. |
Mrs Brennan, speaking for her hus- |
hand. denied that he had insultod the |
Woods woman. but that on the other |
hand he had been apr preached by the |
woman with "A solicitation, and had |
SIMPLY ignored her.
Armstrong has prided himself on his |
reputation OF being bad Niger" and |
has been involved in several shooting |
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