Show I SHOT INTENDED FOR ONE awn ELWELL Julius Nielsen Lost His Life at Logan Owing to Mistake of Man With the Gun ATT All HAD JUST BEEN BEATEN THOUGHT HE WAS BEING B ING PUR PURSUED PURSUED PURSUED SUED WHEN HE FIRED SpecIal to Th The Herald Logan Dec IS The inquest upon the body bOd of Julius Nielsen who was shot last ast l night by J 3 J W Att AU was waS w begun this morning moraine and occupied the entire day it was held before Justice Wil William 11 liam Ham 1 Brougham Bro and a jury consisting of M II Paulsen Paulson John Johnson and Albert Berntson A great many maur of tile the details of the tragedy were gone g ne into i to and they the seemed to indicate that while Att killed Nielsen he intended to slay Isaac El EI Elwell Elwell well jr Had Been in Quarrel The evidence against Att showed that thai 1 he and Elwell in a saloon and finally came caine to blows Att went out on onUle the Ule street and in talking about tile quarrel said If 11 I I hada gun I would put Elwell to the bad and then an announced announced flounced that he was going to his room to get something to defend himself with He was dissuaded from from this but finally started for his room in company with Ben McCullock About half way to Xo his room he stopped at a bakery to get a pie McCullock going on to the 1 room Toom Att Badly Beaten When he lie came out of the shop Elwell who had left the saloon by a rear en entrance entrance entrance trance intercepted him and gave him hima a severe beating Elwell then went I back to the th saloon and Att AU getting up declared that ho would get geta a gun un and aVd get Elwell Nielsen N elsen and Johnson had been invited to Atts room by I lock I I and n they followed Att down the aue a few tew rods behind him I Fatal Shot Fired Going in Att crossed cros d his room and securing a revolver lying on ona ona ona a shelf fired as the men turned the cor corner corner corner ner to come into his room He then shut the door and remained in his room room until arrested by Marshal Peterson Att who displayed a badly battered countenance wept went on the witness stand and his tes testimony tesI testimony I as to the quarrel did not differ from that oil oft the others except excepts that he denied threatening to get Elwell He said 4 away from his assailant nt he h went to Its Is room and was washing wash fug the blood fre 1 his face when hen he hc heard hard h ard footsteps ou ouide ride Id and a voice he Wok took for cn ca ed him by name sharply He called tick l ck D n you ou dont ont you U come In here and Immediate ly the dor dbr r wa was kicked open i Pistol Was Handy Hs on a shelf in front of him and seizing it he fired out the door to scare them but shot too low He rather destroyed the effect of f this tale however by b admitting that he said to the marshal and sheriff when taken to jail He SHe beat me up p pretty badly and then two big bl came down downto to finish It and I took a shot at them then There was no evidence tending to con connect connect fleet the dead man with the brawl in any way wa The autopsy performed by Drs Budge and imd F D Clarke showed that the bullet entered the right breast and passed across through though the lungs and the heart Result of Inquest The jurys verdict was as follows follos That the thO said deceased Julius Niel Nielsen Nielsen NielSen sen came to his death In said Logan precinct n the day of December 1908 by means eans of a wound inflicted on his person by John W Att He the said John W Att having then the th and there with a firearm a ber pistol then and ther there held in his hand and fired in and upon unon the erson of the said Julius Nielsen We the said slid jurors further find that the said killing kUling was felonious and con constitutes constitutes constitutes murder in the first degree funeral will be held on Sun Sunday Sunda Sunday day da at 1130 a m rn in the Fifth ward meeting house |