Paul Pueller.com.

Frank Miller, head bartender at the Brown Palace Hotel, who served drinks to Sylvester

von Ful and Frank Henwood just a few minutes before the shooting began, is under the

impression that they were discussing

the merits of several brands of wine when the trouble arose.

He did not hear any angry words passed.

Quote, I was standing at the other end of the bar when the shooting began.

I had been at the end where Henwood and Von Ful were standing a second before. I judged that

they had some misunderstanding this afternoon about something, for I heard them talking with each other in

low tones. One of them said something about not getting it past him, but what it referred to, I don't

know. Neither of the men seemed particularly angry. I just stepped up to the other

end of the bar when I heard an exclamation. It was all in a flash. And the first thing I knew,

Von Ful struck Henwood and Henwood began shooting. I was startled for a moment, but quickly

recovered and started around the bar to disarm Henwood. I got a confused glance

at several men rushing for the doors and of three men being on the floor. Von Full was staggering

through the door of the smoking room, holding his right arm up with the left to check the flow of

blood from the wound in his wrist. Copeland was lying on the floor near the end of the

bar, and Atkinson was lying partly across the entrance to the smoking room. When I reached him,

Frank Canfield had seized him from behind, and I took the gun away from him, and then Henwood went out.

In a second, a dozen men from the lobby of the hotel had rushed

in. Von Full was staggering around holding his left wrist from which the blood was streaming.

He went out into the grill and Dan Uberley, who had been sitting in the lobby, rushed up,

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