| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Ogden Junction was accosted by one Keithly The attacker was the story asserted petti-fogging lawyer who was enraged byJunction story he said reflected on him The Heraldnarration continued Keithly grabbed him by the coat collar and muttered with an oath something about taking something back Mr Penrose whose left hand was encumbered withsmall box demanded Keithly to take away his hand at the same time disengaging himself from him Keithly then drew back and struck Penroseheavy blow with cane he carried the blow taking effect on the cords of his neck behind the left ear the force breaking off the head of the cane This stunned Penrose and rendered him measurably helpless But the brute not satisfied struck him another heavy blow with the stick across the left temple this time breaking it in two and leavingrather ugly gash Penrose Hall of Fame publisher is better remembered asquick-thinking hard-working Deseret News editor whose hair and temper hadfiery hue The Salt Lake Tribune devotedsingle paragraph headed Pugilistic on January 1874 todisagreement involvingcompeting newsman On Wednesday evening December 31 John Burns of the recently defunct firm of Burns McChane of the Delmonico restaurant madefistic attack on Mr Sloan of the Herald The affair is supposed to have arisen from some squibs that appeared in that paper and which Burns thought reflected on him The April 1877 edition of the Ogden Freeman carriedstory about an attack on its publisher and namesake Legh Freeman Before launching the Ogden paper he had published newspaper on wheels which followed construction of the Union Pacific Railroad to its Promontory link-up with the Central Pacific The story vividly described how Sharp Ogdenpostmaster attempted to assassinate the editor of the Freeman with an iron-shod bludgeon The paper proclaimeddoctor had advanced the opinion that Mr Freeman is liable to die from his injuries at any time Apparently the reporting wastrifle overly-enthusiastic though for the victim lived to engage inlong career in Pacific Northwest journalism 268 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
