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Show fAUSTINNOWSAYS ' M SHOT HIMSELF. J'BtsALT LAKE, Aug. 20. "Well, if i(f torrie person shot mc, will that per- ',A'ytmn bo arrested?" 7 H'Most certainly." Ba&H that's tho ca8o I shot myself." ' Kn'5 dialogue between George Har- &Au6tln, chauffeur, who was wound- . Hl under peculiar circumstances Ht ,.Bu home, 25 South Fifth East street, ' Hi the morning of July 25, and re- v rfpiorters at the emergency hospital a " Hew minutes after the tragedy, has Uiised the police to regard gravely H&e case of Austin, now dying at St. Mark's hospital. " Kf Mrs. Austin, who was in the room Bwjth her husband when he was shot, H-obtalned a statement from him three - Rdays after the affair, in which Austin '- attempted to shoulder all the blamo, A'Kon grounds that he tried to kill him- H'self Regardless of hiB statement k' iBsurgeons who attended AuBtin after he .B had been shot claim that ho could not '': H have inflicted the wound himself. ; fl. There were no powder marks about ip ,H'tho wound, Indicating that the shot |