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Show iXrTKEFTsTcruTT'sT. Charses Cashier Addison B. Jones With Tlio Crime. Salt Lake City, Dee. 10. Joseph M.' Stoutt, ex-president of the Utah National Na-tional bank, and one of the most prominent prom-inent business men of the city, received a pistol shot wound in his breast at 5:30 last night while on Fifth South street, near Main, while walking west to his residence at the corner of Main and Fifth South. He did not fall from the wound, but was able to walk to his home, where he is lying in a serious condition, but probably is not fatally wounded. The first theory advanced was that it was a ease of attempted suicide, but this was rather discredited, because no weapon was found near the place. Mr. Stoutt, however, first said he knew who fired the shot, and then declared he did not recognize the party. This was the first stumbling block in getting get-ting a definite theory to work upon. Then Mr. Stoutt's weapon was produced with at least one freshly exploded shell. Explaining this, the banker said that after he was wounded, he drew his own pistol and fired two shots at the assassin. That was a sufficient explanation until two boys who were near by at the time came forward with the positive statement that only one shot was fired. With all these conflicting statements the police were confronted, and are of course, working somewhat in the dark. The bullet entered three and one-half one-half inches below the left nipple and passed under the muscular tissue, lodging, it is thought, in the center of the abdominal wall, and not varying much in its course cither upward or downward. He complained of a pain in his back, but the physician expressed express-ed a decided opinion that the bullet is not lodged there, although no probing has been resorted to. From the feeling feel-ing in the abdomen, the bullet appeared ap-peared to be a 3S-calibre. The flesh about the wound was badly burned from the powder. It is a singular circumstance that A. B. Jones, cashier of the Utah National bank, and with whom Mr. Stout has been most closely connected in business busi-ness for many years, is charged by the victim of the affair with having dons the shooting. |