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CRAZY DRUNK
[Welland Tribune, 15 June 1888]
We learn from the Los Angeles Tribune that Mr. Alva Price, formerly of Welland county, now a resident of Ontario, California, had a narrow escape from instant death on May 31st. It seems a young man named Broderick, with whom Price was slightly acquainted, got crazy drunk and went gunning on the street. Meeting Price he detained him in a drunken friendly way, but on Price leaving him said, “Price, I am going to shoot you,” and suiting the action to the word, blazed away. Fortunately Broderick was too drunk to fire straight, and although within a few feet, the ball passed harmlessly and lodged in a building near by, making a hole big enough to put a finger in. Broderick was grabbed by a passer by, disarmed and put in the lock up. No cause can be assigned for the shooting, except that he was crazy drunk.
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