Show I I WOMAN AND SElf Murder and Suicide Enacted Between Two Colored Servants Servants ants at Fort Douglas JEALOUSY INCITES CRIME RESENTED MRS DAVIS ATTENTIONS TO TOJAS JAS HARRIS OF SALT LAKE Maddened lad with jealousy jealous Taylor alor mire a colored servant senant in the theo officers quarters at Fort Douglas yesterday morn morning mornIng ing Fag shot am and killed Mrs Irs Lena Davis a l colored color d cook at tt t the post and an then earn com completed a double tragedy by b turning the revolver on himself The crime was committed about SUM the firing six shots Of or four directed toward the woman two took effect The murderer fired two shots Into Int his own body In each case death was almost instantaneous and both the man find And the woman were dead be before before before fore the officers and men attracted by b the shots could enter the room That the crime was due to insane Jeal Jealousy jealOUS easy OUS and was also premeditated has been bee brought out in the Investigation of or orthe the case From what has been learned Mrs Irs Davis had known and consorted with In Leavenworth Kan several years jeans ears ago Later while in Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land Cal while was engaged at Fort Douglas Dougla she met one James Har liar Harris Harris ris na who came to Salt Lake four months ago and is now employed as a bartender In the buffet of or the Empire House at First West est and South Temple streets Some two months ago Harris brought the woman to Salt Lake and she secured a position in the service of Lieutenant and Mrs Irs Paul C Potter The finding of or her former ormer paramour at the post was something of a surprise but In a mess mea measure ure the former relations were evidently resumed When hen however dis discovered dl discovered covered that he lie had a rival Ills his jeal jeah jealousy jalous ous was but lUt thinly disguised and ant fre frequent frequent frequent quent rows occurred between him and the woman Woman Is Intercepted The culmination really came Sunday night when Mrs Davis left leU the post to come conic to th the city to met meet et Harris At that time It is said Inter Intercepted Intercepted intercepted her and displaying a gun h threatened threat threatened threatened ened her life lite Following that and after Mrs Davis Dals had left for tor the city mire had evidently brooded and made up his determination to take the life Ue of the woman and himself Following the shooting which occurred In sooth room two letters were found that although unsigned had evi evl evidently evidently dently been written by Both were unsigned and one was wa addressed to the murdered woman In effect it was wasa a plea to her to make up with him and that the former friendship and manner of 01 living be renewed The second let letter letter ter tar was a request that the mother of or the woman should be notified that her b r daugh daughter ter had been killed Altercation in Hallway Halfway From what can be hj learned regarding the murder and suicide sui it jt appears that early earl yesterday morning Mrs Davis had gone to the bachelor officers quarters for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of or awakening another wo we woman woman weman man servant senant This woman states that she responded to the call and that a moment or two afterward she heard an altercation in inthe Inthe inthe the hallway the voices sounding so like those of Mrs Irs Davis and Then she heard a door slam and then a muffled muffled muffled fled scream and all was quiet until in rapid succession the six shots rang ran out She immediately telephoned to the guard guardhouse guardhouse guardhouse house but in the thie meantime Lieutenant Loring who was Wa on duty as officer of or orthe the day da and who was in the vicinity of ot the building rushed In and attempted to enter the room The door was found locked and was quickly quick broken open and the two bodies found lying on the floor The theol ry Is that after aeter seeing the woman go to the city Sunday night had brooded and had resorted to whisky whisk some of or which was found in a tumbler in his room Hearing the theman wo woman woman man In the hallway hallwa In the morning aft att after atter after er a sleepless night he lie had lied forced her Into his hi room and when hen she struggled and attempted to free herself he had thrown her on the bed muffling her ner screams with a pillow Crazed with his jealousy jealous he evidently spent but little time In talk but drew his revolver and began shooting even while the woman was on the bed He fired four shots at her one entering the left jaw bone and ranging upward through the skull an another another another other penetrating the right side and two going wide After the four shots mire turned the revolver on himself put putting putting putting ting two bullets into his breast Statement of Harris James Harris the object of ot mires hatred said in an interview given gien to a Herald reporter last night that the tragedy was not altogether unexpected He said suld that the woman came to Salt Lake about two months ago the Infer Inference Inference inference ence being given that it had been on his account and that he had met her in Ogden upon her arrival Since her com corn ing here they had met frequently frequent On Sunday night when she met him she told him that had stopped her ber while she was on her way to take the car and had displayed a revolver threat threatening threatening threatening ening to shoot her Harris says sas that he h advised the woman not to go back to the post and that while she herself hersel feared trouble yet et she did so returning on the last car carThe carI carThe I The murdered woman was about 27 2 7 years sears old and of ot attractive appearance She was born in Leavenworth Kan where her parents still reside at 73 street The whereabouts of ot her husband is not known but it is understood that she has a son sOI living at Leavenworth Leavena orth and for whose wh se care cate both she and have hae sent money mone since her arrival here had bad been b n employed as the I servant senant of Lieutenant Ned M 31 Green I since last spring coming he here e from Fort Leavenworth It is understood od that he served an enlistment in the Ninth cay cavalry airy alry and an later in the in was waa discharged from sero service ice Iceon on pf fW what at is known as aa the Brownsville affair As the murder and suicide occurred on the military reservation the matter is not within the jurisdiction of o the e county CC r authorities T TAn An investigating board was appointed yesterday esterday by Colonel Scott comprised comprise I of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Williams Ma ola Major ta jor W Yo T May Major aJor W E and Lieutenant J 3 C Waterman an and l this boar bear will make Its report of the affair to the war department y The funeral of the victims will probably probably ably abl be held today with burial in the post cemetery |