and they argued over hilda erickson. otto, but she broke off the engagement sometime between christmas and that day, january 10th. and joe hill started teasing his friend about that saying that hilda broke it off because she liked joe better than she liked otto, and according to a letter that hilda later wrote, otto shot joe in a fit of anger. now, hilda added that he felt bad about it immediately afterwards and carried joe to a doctor. and it was at the doctor's office that joe hill said his one and only thing ever publicly about his gunshot wound. he said that he had been hot by a friend this an argument over a woman, but he didn't name otto, he didn't name hilda, and he never said anything else about it. but that's not how history records joe hill received a gunshot wound on that night. what history says is that on the night of january 10th joe hill and otto applequist wore, put on bandannas across their faces and burst into a grocery store, a small mom and pop store in salt lake city, brandishing revolvers. and the m