Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-26
Richard Fox, Intended Vcdm of
 Robert Walters, Stops One of
 Four Leaden Messengers; Expected to Make Recovery.
Walters Pursuit of Victim Is
 Stopped by Prompt Work of Officer; Gun User Endangered Lives in Crowd of Hundreds.

Several hundred people in Brewery Gulch about the Hermitage Muheim and shattuck buildings were ID range of wild revolver fire by Robert Wal ters. colored bootblack and porter yes terday afternoon shortly after o'clock
 By chance that appeared miraculous, no one was struck by the flying bull lets except the man whose life Wal ters was attempting Richard K. Fox, another colored bootblack Fox stopped one of the four bullets fired
 At the Calumet & Arizona Hospital where Fox was taken after the shoot ing, it was said last night that he would recover. The bullet entered his hip skirted the abdominal wall, chipped off a piece of the hip bone and came out at the front of his body. 1 Unless there should be development of blood poison or other complication not now expected, he will get we'll
 Walters used a 3s calibre revolver on 45 frame The fact that Fox escaped with bis life may be charged to fumbling of his weapon by Walters. who had trouble in getting action from after the first two shots These were fired at the head of Fox They were high although fired at close range They entered the right side of the vesubule front of the Hermitage, just above the head Of fox
 As the second shot was fired, Fox ran from the vestibule to the street dodging behind a wagon and quarte- ing across toward the Edelweiss res taurant A bullet sped after him. striking the rre of the wagon and deflectng upward, where it struck in the top of the display window casing Of the restaurant As the bullet broke. a piece deflected and struck Manager Kelly of the cigar stand next to the restaurant in the breast, but inflicted no injury
 Gun in hand, Walters ran after Fox, after the third shot. to Broadway street, a short quarter of a block up Brewery Gulch from the point where the shooting commenced. Fox reached Broadway and turned up the narrow walk before Walters got into the mid de Of the street At the mouth of Broadway be took one shot up the tboroughfare after the fleeing form of Fox, dashed into Broadway and was evidently about to fire again when a
 woman stepped in the street and Walters lowered his gun and ran on up the street But Fox had cleared the turn in the alley and was out of sight
 Looking back over his shoulder Walters saw Constable Charles Thomas running up the alley. The negro stopped, turned about raised his gun above his head and said to the officer he was the man doing the shooting, with which he appeared to
 be about to turn and resume shoot ing. The officer caught the gun, took it from Walters and conducted the negro to the office of Justice Thomas where he was committed to jail. In less than ten minutes after firing bis first shot Walters was in one of the steel cages upstairs in the county jail
 Meantime. Fox ran up Broadway tC the Central school building where ht
 turned down toward Main street He was picked up by an automobile latei ] in the neighborhood of the Hughes . block and subsequently taken to tho l C. & A. dispensary, from where he was immediately removed to the hos $ pital
 B Trouble between Walters and Fol ? had been brewing for several days @ Fox boarded at a restaurant in Brew cry Gulch conducted by Mrs Walters
 His conduct at the restaurant. it wal
 said yesterday. threatened to caus'
 trouble several times during last week y Yesterday morning the attitude of Foi .- was uElier than ever On three oc t casions in the foreniin Mrs Walter n