A CLOSE CALL
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

g for him to return. ( 104 ) A CLOSE CALL Two Officers Engage in a Personal Encounter. A Score of Shots Exchanged, and Nobody Hurt Our usually quiet city was the scene of a lively gun racket yesterday morning, the fusi- lade attracting nearly everyone within hearing distance. Constable Perfecto Rodriguez, who was drunk, assaulted a Mexican in the Monarch saloon, striking him over the neck with a heavy cane, breaking the stick. A witness to the assault went in pursuit of Marshal C. L. Cantley to arrest the fractious officer who was found in the saloon. Marshal Cantley approached Rodriguez, demanding him to give up and go along with him. This Rodriguez refused to do, and hastily jerking his six-shooter, a Colt’s 45, leveled it at the Marshal’s breast. Cantley then pulled his gun in self protection, when Rodriguez fired at him point blank; the two men were not more than four feet apart when the firing began, and it is a mystery that both of them were not killed.