THE SEATTLE STAR — DECEMBER 27, 1920
PINK ELEPHANTS SLAUGHTERED IN FIRST AVE. CAFE.
Frontier barroom days had not a thing on the scene in a First ave. S. cafe Sunday night, when Joe McGinn, 42, battled the world, its brother and several pink and green elephants. Many elephants were ruthlessly slaughtered.
McGinn was being overwhelmed when he fired two shots towards the floor. Shelter was at a premium in the seconds that followed, and the chef peeked from behind the counter to see a floor almost cleared, while McGinn lurched dizzily with a smoking pistol in its center.
The only speck on the ex-barroom floor was the limp form of Pete Close, 30, miner. Blood trickled from his head.
McGinn was arrested by a flock of cops and locked up, while physicians probed Close’s head for the bullet. But they probed in vain. He had been clubbed over the head with a chair during the brawl and had lain down, aided by much moonshine. Close was given a jail berth near that of McGinn.
From—The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.), 27 Dec. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
