Show I HE nlURDER OF EGAN I Developments Since the Publication Publi-cation of the Herald I Extra z JJ THREE ARRESTS ALREADY MADE Barkeeper ncfullen Bob Skewes and C M Phelps In Custody Phelps Is the One Suspected By the Police of Having Committed the CrimeA Quarrel In the Saloon The body nt John Egan who was kilkl in ihf Senate saloon on Miin street smith 1 if the Walker House early yst relay morning Is still at the undertake = and an inquest will beheld be-held this afternoon Acting C > ron Marsef and Chief of Police Paul wer at work on the case yesterday try to find pvrenc which would throe some lish < m the murder and as a result of thcr efforts suspicion points I vory plninv in a saloon rounder and I hard character named C M Phelps as the rrurJerer and it is believed that he comriiuiii the crime for purposes of robb rv THHEE ARRESTS MADE Three persons were arrested in con ntvtion t h the crime but no charge has ben naci against them and when they I 1 ere flrst taken into I custody th principal reason for arrest ing them was that they were in the salion w h n Egan is believed to have b < er killed Besides Pheps the men I airested vere J F McMillen tl ni < ht tarkcejer and Bob Ske > v ec Sd on J tr1r ii s a tatter ot uncertainty as to hw muh SKfves knows of the affair but the an be no < ourt that Mo lilillen the barkeepe knows how Egan met hs death but tiffs man tells a rioiculii st < > ry to she eftVrt tiiat he knov > nothing whatever about the matter hi ugh he was in the saloon all J night aftr 11 < clcxk and was within 1J a few fet of the small wine room wlvrc there is every reason to believeth believe-th murder v as comrrired and from vhvli Kgans Ijfoy was dragged into the baC aJ FINDING THE BODY The circumstances of the murder as fell as jtron J were told fully in the tsra ediaon of The Jerald yesterday morning Nght Watchman A B Taylor va passing through the alley tto6ttrfrar of the ifctoon snortly stj 4 lock yesterdayntMfliunAnad sujl j tht NwL He notified several urher orVers and it was soon difvovtod thai tht ir I > y had been dragged Irons a vine fvi stuatetl in a corner of the iMn thv h a rear loor alor K a nir I < paiac aNiut < iO or 40 fet and d ifd MI inC yard uhkh opens on vhf ali < it J was 1 easy to feve he1 t jne sj i tin narks of Elans fe j3 h was a ji rrU ang the ground tu lie H n i > iiiiy and the rtmov 1 t videntij liec made with griac and tht iiiGy i handled rougmly vas an ury uruse on the mans j IJld < and arither on his nose J I I there wa al o a severe injury ove 3 i I leit l ten iol the bone being brvn j I i I TVis was ULuiMess the svound IUEI j ciused us d ° ath and it had every ap > i rinii > f havirx been Inflicted M j h I a sun < lijt < > r some similar weapon J i I RuKlsKHY TIlE MOTIVE i tIt t-It is NiiviJ i i that the only motive I i fur the murdf was r j > bery and if that was the fj ats the murderer se I I tureC very KJe 1 J Egan had beer > lot i of mornv f r sinieTrme but it is in I I thought tiiat h had been in any < x i treme Ran for he had man frds i in the fiiy He borrowed 10 trcTn one of them i re lays ago and E a da he boriuAid > JO fom a friend named 4 Korinca in whose company he was r neiriy al Saturday afternoon They j visited a nurrter of places tosethcr I Srviudin s < > oral saloons and parted abu o < luck in the eveninc I VICTIM WAS 5 INTOXICATED I Egan was partly under the influence I rf liquor it at time hut he was not J I very drunk though he had been drinkIng drink-Ing quit hal of late It is not j known si hire le rent the early part tif the t vning but he probably did nut app > ir at the Senate saloon until late at night and he wa doubtless I ell more flit < xicated by that time It is known that he was located for several sev-eral hi 1rs in the small wine rcom of I the saloon with several chance ac I juaintam e > and that the party were drinking fivtly Thse with him must havi Ian i incited to robbery by he fact that Egan had a bank book sticking out of his hip pocket which gave riff rn the presumption that he was a man of some means and prob aly had considerable money With him It is i liable also that he had a very aual hI le watch and chain with him as lu > as in the habit of carrying one said I he vvo th 1400 which was presented to him some vears ago by fellow employees of the Denver Rio Grande railoai He xvtus not a quarrelsome Quar-relsome nun though be may have gotten into some altercation with the rough ehaait who were in the vine room with him At any rate it is 4 known p iivtly that come tirie during dur-ing the night Eian wa = drugged for an acquamiam saw bim stretched out helpless on the table in the wine I C room with Phelus standing over him I t and the presumption is that Phelps either alone or ss ith the assistance of others administered the drug and committed com-mitted the ri titiery and the murder It is beikved that his assailant took advantage of his condition and attacked at-tacked him with a flun shot But no matter how quietly all this may nave been con utd it could not possibly have esciiv d the knowledge of the barkeeper si ho had probably served drinks to the party a number of times and knew they were there The police do not give any credit at all to the barkeepers i bar-keepers statements that he knows nothing a iout the matter The wine I room Is practically a part of the saloon and the thin partitions do not extend to the ceiling so that almost anything I occurring there can he heard at the bar which is only a few feet away Besides that the odv l could not have dd etd el rh I been dragged out of the rear door and through the passage way without the noise being heard inside I QUARREL IX THE SALOON As a matter of fact th > s a quarrel of some kind in the tter midnight for a woman wh 3 on I the floor aloe was awakened byit and fearing that her son was engaged Jf in U she went to the saloon to find IT I 5 i I he was there but upon ascertaining I that he was not she retired arain I f As an evidence that Ean was f I I I I i I < I F 1 1 I drugged as well as beaten to death a I small vial which it is thought con I tained laudanum was found in the wine room afterwards and an autopsy f will be held this morning to see if j 1 I there are any indications of poisoning AT THE MORGUE j I Whn the body was discovered and taken to th I tht undertakers there was t nothing of any value in the pockets j Fifteen c nts was the total amount of I money and the watch and chain were I missing There was a letter I written to I j him recently from P V Junction by I his wife whom he has not lived with for two years His wife threatened to I sue him for a divorce unless he sent I her money for the children I I UNDBRSDSPICJON I j Suspicion was first greeted to l j I Sk wes and Phelps from the fact that I they were in the saloon late at night I I They both deny all knowledge of Egan or of the crime The police and the i acting coroner ebto their actions I were very suspicious and as the renu I j i rations of the men were not in their favor they concluded ttfjhjDld them tpo on a charge of vagrancy V Phelps is a very hara Iboklng character I char-acter and the police have had experience experi-ence with him before jHe shot and killed a man in Idaho two years ago I and he is i known here as a gambler and I I hangeron at lost saloons CAREER OF JOHN EGAN John Egan the deceased was a man I about 50 years of age He was a rail oader and followed that occupati in Colorado for several years He here with the Rio Grande Western and was for some time a section boss In lIds he married a woman residing in Salt Lake and four years ago he bought the White House bar from Mr Johnson He lost money there aad finally lost the saloon the venture hav ing taken practically all of his mriey He then went back to railroadlrg but some time ago gave that up and returned re-turned to this city and has bee try ing to start in the saloon business again He was a quiet peaceable man had no enemies so far as known and a host of warm friends His domestic life was very unhappy He had just secured a position with the Oregon Short Line anti was to have gone to Pocatello in a very short I time MRS EGAN ARRIVES Mrs John Egan widow of the mur dered man arrived here from P V Junction shortly before 12 oclock last night accompanied by her little boy I She was dressed in black and seemed to be much depressed To The Herald she said she did not care to make any I detailed statement then but might do I I i I I 1 L N 14 LJESE < so today While her relations with Mr Egan had been strained she nevertheless I never-theless felt the situation keenly 1 Il j I B tt 1j l U 0 2 1 f 0 J o I C > a i r l 4 i CMPuL IlIA 5 cS o l if i f VA i 1 i f L f 1 J 7 I A i fI iL ii i I it 2 1 v 4NTh1llh1IfP vfiii I 1 I I ij HI iI I v1 a i r1jhiiIifIIIII jI 1 I 4 i n i = = = = CJ I AIe JI1 II II 17 0 t B U i 5 Pi 1h DIACrE N OF 5ALQON A j I I tit l I SlJPPO ED Ti I I I Iv OE I JON J I TO I GJ ON Do 0 i i 1 IH I i B PWAIDVN = = |