Show KillED BY A GHINA 11AN Gardeners House Stoned 4 Once Too Often I I I TORMENTOR FATALLY SHOT i ij j Charles H Holmes Fired a Volley of Missiles at Chin Poys Door Early Yesterday Morning and Was Shot to Death by the Chinaman Who Says Ho ThougHt He Was Assailed by RobbersStories of Chinaman and Holmess Companions Vlith Ho gard to Tragedy Inquest Today I As a result of the timehonored custom cus-tom of baiting Chinamen Charles IT Holmes 32 yeans of age met death r yesterday morning and Chin Fey a Clilnanmii 60 years old Is in the city jail charged with murder The killing1 occurred some time between be-tween 2 and 3 oqlock yesterday mornIng I morn-Ing but was not reported to the authorities au-thorities until nearly C The old I phlnaman lives at the corner of Fourth North and Third West and Is a gar denei by occupation lie owns his house and lot a horse and a delivery wagon From stories told by the Chinaman and by three men who were with Holmes the dead man sought diversion I di-version by heaving rocks at the door of the Chinamans house and the In mate responded by shooting Holmes with a Jocaliber pistol THREW ROCKS FOR FUN Isaac Langton Levi Jones nnd Frank I Car the men who were with Holmes I say they were returning from town As they passed the old mans house Holmes announced that he would throw some rocks against the door and In vItcd the others to join in the rim They refused and endeavored to dissuade dis-suade him He insisted on throwing some for luck anyway and was advised ad-vised to bo ready to run The other men claim they fled Incontinently after the first rock was fired suvl sought shelter without casting any missiles T Langlon was apparently the nearest to the shooting He had I turned aside into an alley when ho heard the shot Looking out he observed ob-served Holmes running and heard him cry something like lice hes got me this time Believing Holmes merely meant that the Chinaman was In pursuit pur-suit and gaining on him Langton shouted Throw on a liltlc speed You can beat the old duffer Holmea ran about a half a block and turned Into a patch of weeds where he fell Thinking then the man had been struck Langton ran back and found Holmes unconscious and groaning The other two men had gone to their homes without stopping Langton hunted them up and they returned to where Holmes was lying a couple of them going to St Marks hospital l for the ambulance The vehicle soon as rived and the wounded man was taken to the hospital but was dead when lie arrived there The inca thought he was breathing when they placedhim in the ambulance but the attaches of the hospital Incline to the belief that le had been dead for some tlsne be fore being brought In The men left their siames and addresses at the hospital hos-pital and went home The hospital officials notified the police and sent the body to Evanss Undertaking parlors THOUGHT HE HAD MISSED Olllcers Barlow Hempel and Chase went to the Chinasnans house Isn medlately upon learning of the shoot hig and placed the old fellow under arrest ar-rest Until the arrival oC the officers he did not know his bullet had found a mark the flight of the man lead Ing him to think ho was uninjured At the city jail Chin loy who speaks a fair quality of English for one of his race stated he thought the men were robhors The old man lives alone and insisted his first thought osi being aroused by the racket was that busglass were tryIng to break In his door which Is considerably shattered He says he sprang out of bed sisshed across the room lo a table asul got his pistol a formidable weapon out of the drawer and told the intruders lo depart de-part or he would shoot He Insists the snan broke In through the door but IIolsncsH companions do not believe I this was the case The Chinasnnn says Holmes refused to leave and think ing the man Intended either robbery os tnusder he fired Holmes al once urn away and the old man after waitIng I wait-Ing a tin e went to bed again He asserts I as-serts he did not Intend to kill the snan but was thoroughly frightened and hoped to scare the visitors away Holmes was shot low down and well back on the right side tIm bullet remaining re-maining In his body I CHINAMAN AN OLDTIMER IIEHE Chin Poy says he has lived In Suit Lake fourteen years and before that time spent eighteen years in San Francisco He lived alone except during dur-ing the busy season of the yeas when ho kept one hired l mart He purchased his little abode house and the lot on Which it stands about five years ago Neighbors report that he Is a quiet Inoffensive old fellow whose life has boesi made pretty much of a torment to him by mischievous young men and boys He states himself thai he has i had lots of trouble with boys nnnoy 1 Ing him and says he was never ar rested before The old man seems thoroughly frightened but stlckn closely close-ly to his story of the affair He baa many friends among the Chinese here many of whom called upon him nt the jail yesterday His house l and his horse are being cared for by Chinese friends When taken to the jail the old fellow had 945 In money In his pockets His house bears evidence thai several large rocks were hurled with considerable force against It The door Is split and the adobe around Jl IB scarred in several places The windows are all boarded up The old man says his window panes were nil destroyed by rocks long ago The throe men who were with Holmes tell substantially the same story Lnngtons being the moat complete com-plete Langton Is n snarrlcd man ° 4 years old Jones is about 21 and Carr Is about 19 Langton says he warned Holmes to look out for the old Chinaman as the Celestial had bean known to shoot nt crowds of tormentors i he J inonAns Home ° i o ° 0 or 4 J NOTTT AMP 3WT 1 o 0 ri iEfMLoco J 00 iL 0 o d U I J2LVw ss m J1Ul I J c Bdr fronT Door r I before The other two men say they never saw the Chinaman SECOND TRAGEDY IN HOLMES FAMILY Holmes was about 35 years of age I and a native of England He casne lo Salt Lake with his parents when he was 8 years old amid has lived hero since being employed as a boilermaker boiler-maker by his brother Samuel Holmes He was unmarried and leaves an aged mother three brothers Samuel Alexander Alex-ander and John and two sisters Mrs A Gardner and Mrs A II Davis His home was at 538 West Third North His mother who Is about 70 years of age was almost heartbroken yesterday yes-terday The dead mans father meta met-a tragic death soon after he landed In I Salt Lake about txventyfour years ago by 1 being run over by a train used to haul material to the Temple then Irs course of construction and In slantly killed Charles Holmes is spoken of as a goodnatured mischievous man who never outgrew his boyishness and was popularly referred to us Sweet holmes Ho was not considered a drinking snan and his compassions of last night declare that all were quite sober at the time of Usetrouble An Inquest on the body of Holmes will be held by Justice C M Nielsen at 10 oclock this morning The three snen who were with the dead snan have been subpoenaed ns witnesses before the Coroners jury |