Show I IS DEEP MYSTERY t prominent o Man Manof of Columbia S SC C WAS WITH lITH HOI ORA othE r EAD DRINKING AND ANDr is i SUSPECTED SUSPECT Columbia I 1 S C April Apri 13 Captain John J commercial d gant gont o of th the Norfolk 8 Western was ww shot to 1 death deth this afternoon in the rooms of ot ot Major Barnard arad B F Evans In this cy c y The arrest ot of Major ajor Evans Dhans sub subsequently created ci a pronounced sensa sensation tion tn I Thi two ws alone one ami affil the occupants pants of or the tho adjoining apartments Apartment were at dinner Major summoned a 1 physician saying that a man nan was a hurt hurtin i in rn his rooms room Mr Air ibbs t found fund Cap I tain tahi Griffin lying in m u a u dying d condition en and ami d on Major Evns bed be I IA A calibre c Colts Colts revolve revolver I i bullet bUlet had entered enter just above aboe the left lef nipple P L I When Wn Dr r GIbba Gibbs announced ve wag V dyIng he h declared that Evans who ho had been baan drinking heavily hevly became b Je ex x x cW and d that tat Dr Gibbs lied Je that Dr Th r GIbbs and not he him eff efi hat hail hn Jellied Griffin The physician ph under pretext of replacing a 8 broken In tn managed to get g t out of the therom room rom although U t is Ic alleged Evans Eans de declared that hr hI should not do BO so BOI I Dt t Gibbs summoned the police and plc they nIp were refused admission until Judge JUr e Ernest Gary Gry ory a cousin of arrived and and demanded admission and submission to the officers Krans 1 struck truck Judge Gar Gar md was taken te to jail in a state tte of or hysteria having declared Griffin had haC ha taken his oWn Ufa In the room rom were evidences evidence that one or both of the t th men nert had been drinking Aside AI from this there is no reason re n why wh Griffin should hare hv killed himself elf or that l Enns Evens vans should have shot him The rh dead mans race face was vas bruised on both sides side and there was an abrasion on on the brige brg of the nose His cane canet t clotted with u lh Ith blood was wa several feet from where blood marks that th fatal shot had hd takei t effect erect tat The right forearm of theod man showed powder burns but none was noticeable ble in the th neighborhood of the wounds Jr Evans is a n son sn of Brigadier General Jer ETani Evans vans of the con crate army urmy I and ADd Is I a brother of or former furmer Governor John Joh G Evans Eans who ho wa was adjutant gen general general eral In 1888 8 and was wa himself in the Ha Havana HaVI Havana I vana VI time e department at nt that |