The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-21

Brennan saw the negro as he came
out Of the drug store and two shots
rang out in quick succession. one from
the revolver carried by the negro and
the other from that of Brennan. Then
a fusillade began and after a running
pie street, just above the sun Drug
company. diagOnally across the corner
from the l. +. Robinson apOthecary.
The negro was on top, attempting TO
send another bullet into the body OF
Brennan, who had already been shot
through the spleen, when George ].
Stafford, 431 North First West street.
a former member Of the fire depart
ment, snatched the weapon from the
hand Of Armstrong. Simultaneously,
PatrOlman @. a. Patterson Wrenched
the revolver from the hand OF Bren-
nan. Then the two were carried into
the sun drug store and later removed
TO the emergency hospital at police
headquarters.
Raw WOODS was close TO the arm of
her negro lover when the shooting
began and Mrs. Brennan was not far
from her husband. Both ran IN dir-
ferent directions, Mortified, but later
came TO the emergency hospital TO
learn the condition of the wounded
men. When Mrs. Brennan tried 10
comfort her husband on the operating
table, Ray Woods bent over her cOloTed
lover and kissed him repeatedly. The
Woods woman was locked up in the
city jail as material witness. Bren-
nan and Armstrong were taken to St.
Marks hospital in the police ambu-
lance.
In Other Shooting Serapes.
The negro has been in numerous pre-
YlOus gunplays and cutting scrapes
and prides himself on being a dead
shot. Two years ago ne wounded
Bad Pete" another negro, in the right
les In a shooting at the Empire house,
in South Temple street, in which Arm
strong was the principal. Less than
q year ago he figured in a gunplay at
the Commercial street cOlOred mans
club.
Late Friday night my husband ana
We're standing at the corner of Post
office place and South West Temple
street" said Mrs. Brennan last night,
when the Woods woman took hold of
his arm and whispered a solicitation,
which he Immediately resented. He
called her just what she is and told
her 10 get away. She returned many
ABUSIVE words and we started TO walk
across the corner. little later we
learned that the negro was following
US. l think that he was bent upOn
numbering my husband and early this
morning / cautioned him to be careful"
while under examination at police
headquarters shortly after midnight.
Ray Woods admitted that she had
tried TO speak TO Brennan Friday night.
but that he had pushed her aside in a
brutal manner She also said that
Brennan struck her and that he would
further beat her unless she kept away
from him. Though she was not sure,
she said that Brennan had fired the
first shot This is disputed by stafford
and Patrolman Patterson, both of whom
were in close proximity of the shoot
ing, and Mrs Brennan seems positive
that the first shot was fired by the
negro.
saw Shooting begin.
Another sidelight is offered by Arthur
Martin, who claims TO have been three
feet behind Brennan when the shoot
ing began. He says:
Brennan passed me just beyond the
Robinson drug store. As he passed
am quite certain that he had a gun IN
his hand. When about three feet ahead
or me l heard the woman with the
negro cry. My God, he is after YOU
The woman seized the negro and at
tempted TO swing herself in front of
him. Then Brennan opened fire. The
negro had his hand in an inside pocket
apparently on the grip of a revolver
He Immediately opened fire. Brennan
fell at the second shot and shortly
afterWard the negro fell"
PatTOlman Patterson scented trouble
shortly after II o'clock last night, in
which he knew Ray Woods, her cOlOred
macquereauX and Brennan to be mixed
up. He says that the Woods woman
complained 10 him that Brennan had
abused her and that Armstrong had
threatened to get even.
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 in
the neighbOThOOd. Before we reached
the drug store where Mr.. and Mrs
Brennan were drinking something at a
soda fountain, L saw Brennan come out
We were still two OF three hundred
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 a
heap.
Scented Trouble Early.
stafford, the fireman, wTenched the
revolver from the negro and / took
the revolver from the white man. Both
We're still struggling and 1 doubt if
either realized having been shot. AS
near as I could learn, the trouble be-
tween the negro and Brennan began
Friday night and that it was renewed
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