Frank Steele, the well-known manager of…
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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.
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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.