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Show DETAILS OF TRAOEDY. 7 of th Shooting Told by n rueblo Paper. -,, Winning details of the tragedy ,cbo In which the principals were tlake I" .1'. are taken from the , chlefum of l'rldns : , j Mrs. MlnnlP Cooper In his ., Irt t the could not struggle, Mrtk Hob its of Halt Lake City, tn to i pcritlon by a refusal of & nfuirrlage placed a revolver tenpl and pulled the trigger: Silthout iiiiilliiB to sec If he hid j Hi- v r in Roberts sent a bull-rough h own hniln and dropped jtt the iner of Ninth street and if uc -f1i"oimr I the culmination of a t implli I'd state 'of affairs ex-j ex-j ben t i Mrs Cooper and her Vt aril Mr Cooper and ltobeits. icen of the drain i aic laid In i rnd Hilt 1-ake city where i'iIp p In ip ili are well known BERTS nnoyi:d mhh, cooper. Rrterl I upraised to have come to lloievcral dayH ago. mid since his itt her friends of Mrs Cooper ftay a be annoscil her by attentions .-h he ill 1 not desire. 'Wednesday -'rf Roberts hired a horse and inralBliekcre livery stable on Han-Fi Han-Fi avenue near where Mrs. Cooper iried II t f the name of Arthur tird The tn went driving, when, II laid Iloberts threatened Mrs. illh death If she did not prom-to prom-to marry hun at nncc. He pulled a At-trim his poiket and flouilslied ihtn nlthln a feu blocks of the riirlt" Mr" Cooper seized the -pnand .hn.iv It out of the buggy. Sens got out to get the gun, when ii nop r drove Into the city alone. MED TO l.ET HOHERTB ALONE. Erfrl' cs uiged her not to see Rob-Jijih Rob-Jijih ir I expected that she would jh ir nd.lco Hho was left ulone ite r w -csterdus morning while W r went to the Pueblo sanl-mil sanl-mil 1 rinnunt park to make nr-(ir nr-(ir ni" for Mrs Cooper to go there 'tl ii i ) she should tecover a a ihr ined attack of nervous irallo" hen the friends returned ic-ipfr hid gone and n short time tr aj n ought home desperately st.nl WAn.M D 1IY HKIt FATIinn, ln I opr hud been wnrned by her ' i' c in salt Like City, thnt "fti - omlng to I'ueblo to see rind thu trouble might be expected. 'tin of lirrn who had heard this ' Pre mi ins to keep her from the wr e of ihr man, but the efforts i full! fm though It seems Mrs. " d i not want to marry him, ' v a mi understanding of some twtvr i ihrin, and she wished to ' up' ailons, Qi u i i.i. .ii on sTrtur.T. mien inrnliiR Itoberts ionve)ed i Hi- ip in Mr. Cooper and she 'kl i ilieij stable nearby to tm li was insliU the nllke, but ' r' i out, und the wulked "' ' rievcril times Mis ir ml tu npeiik In a loud T el u iho man, tellliiR hlin ' - ut he would be known ' poka In u low tono of ' icd to bo pleading with 'I i kirn,' thu wuman to bell" be-ll" i nnd at inch refusal bo 1 id mole dospeiatc. Ills "'r'1 dlvoiceil fiom him, his 7 It Lnko City was gone, "" ' Iri Cnuper thut be larcd 1 ' Amiln and uRaln tho 1 ii to lravo the town nnd ' i toon ionic to K'vlt Lako l V) HIH VIBTIM. JLV' ' ,r'hwest lorner of Ninth ' i-Tiitii l'o avenue vuis 11 v" uvn stopiied huddenly ,. Mi i Cnuper In Ills arms j'?' r a that she could mike " nliiccd tho imisilo df the .,."' lit her left temple and ' A e lliHtant tbut ltobeits ' "i ' niei Mrs. Cooper Insllno- bullet Instead of entering thn L1L struck a. U..lMrttfV!;;By"n , HLNDS III I.I.i:T into hh , i.. I ne.ru'Ied the tr gger dinm.i backward on the sldewalkf dead H WOMAN PR KKD VP man PhVU,.Ubj M" Atthur Chap U Menu. wf,"v.ni Nlmh ml " thalnfn ii "h. hcr "'tnc and ,,',',?' U- IIttden. who vvus near at h?r room' 2?fft ,",lk"1 nn' hlk to lude s i 1 ulllK rennrkable fortl-tallv fortl-tallv wnl'" l,mt '" innr-with innr-with uSUc? ancl ""'"fhed to those ?r.,..h.3he haeS wa 'soSn't'er1-?" 'soSn't'er1-?" ' sanua'rlmn" "o i hsmn-'l6 "a8 "''"'I wh rfpea "d shem;rou"rdiean'1 " W" " '" ritonuD von bi'i.li:t i.?jr Io"tl,an and Campbell were at-i"1Ci at-i"1Ci hcr' and "" remhln the l",'?'1 for ,h bullet, hut tt fn Ih. h.l.5e I00"'511 Th', hR" P'ed ho left 22 ",b3Uttnn lnih ln l0nt ' eell ,.hr.alUl n.bo. "" ,"''wr lek an. I. ,h, 'hrouBh ' "I'Per Jaw bone rich. nh!lJ,r,,lm'l? lnil""1 b',ow 'he I,'? u chk hone In her nervous con-dltlon. con-dltlon. the shock to Mrs Cooper was IhH.1".11 e1"' ""' ,h" " tha" Physf.hn: ""' hy "" ",,Jln'5 nOUUHTS'S DKATlt INSTANTASn- OUS T1"',bullet which ended the life of Iloberls entered the brain Just In front nii-iS ,'iUllt''nr 1ni "nfl "U the other side of the head death was Instantaneous. In-stantaneous. Roberts used a new- M-lallher M-lallher revolvei and had puichased a ho of cnrtildges the five In the re-volver re-volver chambers being the only ones temoved fiom the box MR1?. COOPKIVS STORT Whllo being taken to the sanitarium Mrs Cooper tnlil the storv of the shooing shooi-ng to a friend She said that Roberts h-vd pleaded with her to marry him and that she refused all entreaties They had talke a long time during the morning, und from bis answers to her she was totalis unprepared for his desperate move She sas that Roberts Rob-erts held her arms when he tired the shot that he hoped would end her life fihe denied repeatedly that there had ever been nnv Imnroner relations be tween her and Roberts, and said that the only reason for his nit, so far as she knew, was her refusal to marry him. NOT CONSISTENT Htrdly In keeping with this story of Mrs Cooper's Is a letter which was found on the person of Roberts by Coroner Cor-oner Fugard It showed that some talk of being married had passed between the two. nnd the lefusal of Mrs Roberts Rob-erts cannot nt this time bo explained. The letter Is as follows. MI1S. COOPUIV8 LRTTER. Dear I'reil- I havo been nulling from day to di thinking ou woull write, but ns jrl not a lln' so will write you Saunders Saund-ers wrole Just when be told pap he would I telephoned to him at V II y m when mv mrnigo came, nnd apked him why he had not written Hinl he aiLI he hail m I Hnawered It the nvt morning I hopo sou and papa will gel things flxed nn no 1 pan tome home I am so llred of staving here, but 1 lant leave till rapi gels the papera fixed up Cooper has left That leaves me to pav riorence's board and room for a week or ten das 1 am out of mones so wish jou would please Bend me mones to pas board and room for l'lorence and mssclf, and mones to bring 1 lorencn home rapa seemed to feel quite .hanged toward son which I am vers thankful for. for If things ever happen. It would be so hard for me Well. Fred. I would give ans-thing ans-thing If t rould but see ou and talk to sou as I have so much to sas Well, one thing 1 will soon know where I am at. and that will be the world to me. n It has been many a das since I have been tree from dread of some kind Well, I guess sou'll have a kick coming when I get home for not writing more often, but I have only gotten one letter from sou since I came which will be live weeks Thursday morning, and I have written ten to sour one, which I don t 11, Ink I en lJ. anywas Hy the was. I think ou quite remember the way sou treated mo when I was ready to get on the cor to go to the train Well. bred. I will come home Just ss soon as 1 can leave nnd I assure sou J want to come, t never want to come back to rueblo again Hope "vers thing Is all right with sou In vour business tine, and I know It will be all right In your other sffalrs. when I come home. I mean lov; affairs Well, masbe not Mas be you have not waited for me. as I have for ou. Well we win both know It all when w have our little talk I have watched evers mall for the iMst two dusa. but no letter. Will close with love and best wishes rnmvnur Minnie If sou want It to be Kred bo WR1TK. It would be u comfort com-fort to get a nice little letter fromj"!- BOMHWHAT MY8TIFY1NO. The iclillona existing between Rob-erts Rob-erts and Mrs. Cooper are msstlfslng. They had been on terms of considerable considera-ble Intimacy during her residence In Salt I-ake Clly when she worked for him. blnco she has been In Pueblo, friends my that she has received a mes.age from him that she rould re-sumo re-sumo her former position, and te ling her that his business would go to pieces unless she came back. The letter which was found on Roberts Rob-erts Indicates that Mrs Cooper at least pretended to reciprocate the attachment attach-ment which he expressed for her and emouraged him In the Idea that she might lit some time be.ome his w fe. When bo camo to Pueblo, she by liei own statement, refused to marry him, or to say that she might marry him tn the future. WHAT Illill l nn.."'" ow. Mrs. Cooper's friends still malntiln that she has been more sinned against IE in alnulng The nay1 that she Is lm- i We and5 high 'tempered, nnd that iliCM characteristic have resulted In J, ppeatances belli against her As to ny Improper relations between her nnd Robtti they stale positively that tiny know- all such ncuis.itlons to be false They admit thnt Roberts was rv Mentis-infatuated Mentis-infatuated with the woman, and for her sake I enounced his family an, filemlH and gave up his business, but believe that sho did not enre for his at-untlons. at-untlons. Sho told hlin, they say that iho could not ct nurry him If she wanted o, only previously having been uivore"d. and that ho was similarly PtTheltp'.rt of tho letter 111 which Mrs cnoiwr iiskt Roberts for mones they pvnlalii by raying sho had two months wnci" Hie for work before leaving IhS The other parts of the letter bei frlcnili believe, was nn India. letlpn which prob.bls brought on tho tragedj |