 Desmond recovered, and eventually the charges against Owenby were dropped short of a fine.Owenby would later brag of the shooting, and would eventually claim that he had killed Desmond that day, omitting the fact that Desmond was not only unarmed, but in fact did not die at all.In the summer of 1889, Desmond and his wife Eva had moved to Ogden, Utah, opening the "Ogden River Resort".