Show STAPLES DIES OF I HIS WOUNDS I Race Track Follower Shot in I Ogden Saturday Night Had I I Bad Reputation Charles Staples the negro who was shot by Clarence Ernst another an ther negro Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day night died at the hospital Sunday morning at 5 6 after several hours of suffering Ernst who did tho shoot shooting shooting ing and who is proprietor of a pool room and cigar store on Lincoln avenue main maintains maintaIns maintains that he shot the man in fence The body bod of Staples was removed to the Larkin undertaking parlors where It was viewed yesterday morning by Coroner J D Murphy and a i jury composed of Joseph Ruffa George D Folkman and Claude V ZInn After viewing the body bod and seeing the nature of the wound an adjournment was taken until this morn morning mornIng morning ing when the hearing will wilt take pla Race Track Follower It was WIl learned that Staples was about 90 30 years of age and had been following the horses homes In California and all aU over the cOuntry for about twelve years and that he was a well wl w Il known character around I race tracks It is believed that he has I relatives In Danville Va A sweetheart I of the dead man sings In the 1 dance hall hail in San Sa 11 Francisco i At the time he was shot Staples was being sought sou ht after by b the officers of ricers oe Uc I ing alleged to be Implicated with George Cotter and Henry Hent Weaver two negroes I who were arrested at the race track on n the charge of pocket picking Ernst bad had Ip p the earlier part of the tile evening etl t the officers that Staples was in his re resort resort sort and Officer Anderson was detailed upon the case and was searching for the theman theman theman man when the shooting occurred Ernst who for more than twelve years ears I was porter at the Weber eber club has al always always always ways borne a good reputation here hero and has been prominently identified with the I colored population of the city |