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Show I GUS KINGETOR, WITH BULLET WOUND IN HEAD, FOUND DEAD IGus Klngetor, 4 2 JTUH old, was found dwtd by tho police at 6 46 o'clock laet night In an old closot at the YaLeo rooming houao. 304 Twenty-fifth etreet. There vru.B a bullet wound In his head. According to William Keating, father-in-law uf Kmpotor. who tei-phonafl tei-phonafl the police lust night, Klngo-tor Klngo-tor came Into the hotel accompanied by William Moran a few momenta before be-fore he shot himself and tiocmed to be In a melancholy Ptu.te of mind. Keating, who own th Yates rooming room-ing house which la rua by Ium daughter, daugh-ter, lClngctor's widow, told the police that his sou-tn-law had seemed the gun belonging to his daughter and that he was following him toward the closet In an effort to take the gun away from him when Klngetor raised the gun to his left temple and, saying, say-ing, "Hero goes nothing,'' polled the trigger and fell acainat the wall, the gun falling from his hand. Keating iald that he Immediately notified the police. Detective Edward Buttoi field and County Attorney David Wilson went to the sceno of the shooting. According Accord-ing to Detective Butterfleld the body was lying In tho closet nnd the sun .ibout the length of the body awaj from It. It could not be determined at the time tho police say Whether the head showed any powder burns or not due to the blood from the wound covering 1U Dr. R. H. Wilson, city and county physician, was immediately im-mediately summoned and found that Klngetor had died almost Instantly. The body was removed to tho Klr-kcndall Klr-kcndall undertaking establishment. Tnvestirations conducted by the po-llco po-llco last night brought to light that Klngetor and his wife, formerly known as "Sis" Keating, had had a quarrel earlier in the day. According to the storv told tho polke by Mrs Klngetor and her father. Klngetor bad secured tho gun whleh belonged to her, had loaded It and had threatened to kill her with It. beforo he is alleged to have killed himself According to the father, he saw Klngetor place tho gun to his head, j No trnco of powder burns, it is alleged al-leged were found on the fare in tho Vicinity of the wound after tho body had been washed loday. The bullet fired from a S8 calibre revolver, on- ' lercd tho head Just below the right tomple on a lino between the ear and th" right eye. Th polico also point out that a gun held away from a person produces a clean wound where the ball enters, especially so if a small calibre hulUt Is used and that the wound produced I by a pun held against the body Is, J.iggod and torn. Tho wound on Klngetor's head la larger, they say. than if the gun had been held at some distance away. ! The coroner's Jvty composed of Henry Bateman, R a. Norris una R. R Brown was sworn In by City Judgo! ID. R. Roberts, ex-offlclo coroner, this; ' afternoon and accompanied by Sheriff Plncock, Countv Attorney David Yll-1 son and 1 r. Hoy W ilson, city and j count) phslcian. left to view the body, at the Klrkcndall undertaking parlors I and also to look over the 6cene of the hooting. The hearing was to begin at 3-30 o'clock. |