Frank Steele, the well-known manager of…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

intervening of friends his name is withheld from publication. Had a cowboy committed the same offense, he would have been fined $100 at least, and his name printed in red ink, under a triple head in the local papers. ( 12 ) From ihe April 11, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise Frank Steele, the well-known manager of the Western Union Telegraph company at El Paso, shot and fatally wounded Frank Patter- son, also an operator, the other night. The fight occurred in the telegraph office and was the result of a dispute over a wire which refused to work. Patterson advanced on Steele, striking him, when the latter rushed to his desk, and securing a revolver, used it with deadly effect. Steele shot at Patterson twice — one bullet going in the left shoulder and one in the mouth, and the last shot will in all probability prove fatal. Steele was immediately arrested and held under $5,000 bond to await the result of the wounded man’s injuries.