A CLOSE CALL
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Perfecto Rodriguezperson
3 claims cited from this source
a.k.a. Rodriguez
C. L. Cantleyperson
2 claims cited from this source
a.k.a. Marshal C. L. Cantley, Marshal Cantley, Cantley
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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.