Show INQUEST ON JENQS i Facts are Inconsistent With Ecksteins Story LOOKING FOR HIS FATHER Presence of Jennings nt tho Roadhouse Road-house Was Entirely Accidental His Father Had Been Camping in a Tent a Few Yards away After He First Entered tho House Ho Was Locked Out and Threatened With Death by the Black Bartender Bar-tender Conflicting Stories Told Tho facts developed yesterday In tho roadhouso killing scorn entirely Inconelst cnt with tho version of tho tragedy given by Barney Eckstein tho slayer of J A Jennings and the other attaches of the place While It Is 1 not Improbable tfiat Jcnnlncs did enter tho bar and draw a revolver i Is hardly conceivable that 4 4J 1 b I Barney Eckstein lie did so without some serious provocation provo-cation What this provocation wan lathe I la-the question that baffles the officers and pave tho way to liberty o Eckslcln HIDING INFORMATION Everyone about the rondhouso rcema f determined to hold back all Information concerning the acllons of Jennings and the few admissions made by Shcrbrook the pianoplayer and TriiBlIe the negro bartender are so fragmentary and conflicting con-flicting that they obscure rather than Illuminate Il-luminate the affair I IB I patent that a goodly amount o lying hna been done nnd that something disadvantageous to thp roadhouao has been concealed Here urc the facia The reader can Judge for himself whether realer cn with the story lold by Eckstein BORE GOOD REPUTATION Julian A Jcnnlncs was 25 yearn of nse In April lie waa murrlcd about uo years ago and made hlK homo In nln ham where he bore nn excellent rep ulntlon lie waa never excclenl drink to excess wts always goodnatured nnd never carried a revolver This summer he and his wife wenl to American Falls ida where he WX employed DH drills man with an Oreiron Short Line crew alls worl was completed laHt week and he was preparing to come with his wife to lilnjrham when a friend asked him to remain over and come to Suit Lake with a shipment ot horses so tire trip would cost him nothing Accordingly ho sent ins wife to Provo Inat weekS and left American Falls either Sunday or Monday with the horses SEEN DURING AFTERNOON He Is next Been In Salt Lake a llllle after noon on Thursday by Moses Hen ilrlcka of Blnpham He waG carry Inir a hand urlp The two men exchanged Erodings entered a saloon fxchanred Iml CluhBCs of beer each When he loft Mr Jloiidrlclcs Jennings aald he was going lo the Sanitarium to have a bath tOlnf then Intended to co uiit toward Mur ray where his father was camped About 2 oclock In the afternoon he walked toward the Sanitarium on Third South tom West Temple and stopped to Joke with tome of the sloIIper guscd In pavlnrr He told them In a Jocular way that they hud a nice Job asked them why they worked and finally mijjKrcsted that they accompany him back to MlsHourl where they would not have to work He Impressed the workmen as a man with a ralrstecd load Later In the afternoon he met Simon Walton his fathcrs paitmr In the horse tradlnp camp a fw hundred feet north of Ialrchllds roadhouse Tie asked Dai ton about hla father and said ho waa going out to see him He nskcd Dalton Jf ho needed any money and flashed a roll of bllla la = SAID HE MADE TROUBLE About GM he colon the Murniy carat car-at the roadhouse went to the llulo candy booth beside the road and sinked I Al DUI lap the proprietor when tho horne tnidera would b0 back In their tent Mr ptinlap rcplleil Hint they usually came in about dark Junnlnga afterward en tered tho binroom of the roudhouse occupied oc-cupied at tho tlmo by Frank Trustle I tit negro d bartender and A i i Slier DTOOK me pianopluyer What iranuplred there may never bo accurately known Jn the countj Jail yualerdny Sherbrook told County Allor iiey Chrislcnwn that Jennings ehnt rd them about the place with a gun ordered him to piny the piano on pain of diitb nnd threw Trusllc I Truslc violently 10 the Hour rdslle when questioned Hcpiinitoly tw also claimed that hud Jennlngn made trouble out Iaulc Raid not 0 word about being ns THREATENED TO KILL HIM At 7 W p m l Tribune reporter who Had been on a Hahlne expedition I stopped nt the roadhouse Ho found the door to the bar locked hut wan Instructed to come in through an adjoining door OHterlnc thc parlor On trying tin door from lie parlor to the bar hu wan un nblo lo open It A voice on the Inside told him In ralao the catch He Ihon obunrvcd that the catch had boon thrown on the oulaldc otherwise lie parlor face of Iho door On throwing it back lw j gained admlBHlnn lo the barroom and round Knink Truullo and Shcrbroolt In lcc In reply to a fIcsUon as to thc Inhos pILhl condition > of the door Trustlc ralil1 Oh that flow out there wants to uet In and rnle hI I If by docs come S in hero 1 will kill him Loc S JENNINGS OUTSIDE vul the roi ° rlcr went out he saw Jcn bingo ocalod on the dic ot the piazza I with his elbows on his knees and his face hurlod In his hands A Jennings the father of the dead man passed the lalh In town and did not no down to the lent at all That Is why Jennings t continued his fruitless wait There Is no further Informiillon concornlni his actions until the time of the shooting Barney Eckstein come over from his roadhouse at th cornr of Twelfth South and Main about cark It was the Hrit time ho had been In Ialrchllda slnco noon nool little after 9 oclock Jennings entered en-tered the saloon with a drawn revolver trc witnesses that he pointed All the wln cR agree 11t Al Itrc the weapon at Eckstein and said There Is going wtnpon ho something doing hero pretty quick Sherbrook told tho County Attorney yesterday that before making this remark Jennings said something some-thing about being roobed but Shcrbrook afterward denied this Then EckHleln killed Jennings When the officers examined the body they found 2IO on his pprnon It 13 not known how much money he hail when he arrived In Salt Lnko Ills 1 wife say she brought most of their money with her when ahe loft Idaho leaving 1 her husband with Jimt enough It lo Ink him through According lo SI J mpn Dalton he had several greenbacks before ho started for tho horsetraders tent tentRELATIVES INVESTIGATING Mrs Jcnnlngss brother Hiram Jensen of Provo and M T3 Jennings and Zclia Jennings brother and alBter of the dead man arrived yesterday morning and arc investigating the raise They rffuse to believe for It moment that Jennings threatened anyone In the roadhnuso without with-out cause nod pronounce the deed a I wanton murder but their belief Is based on Iholr knowledge of their brothers character rather than upon the state meats of TNltnosses WITNESSES RELEASED Trustlo and Shcrbrook were released from Jail last l night by direction of the bounty Attorney aa he did not think he hat sufficient evidence to Justify him In holdlncr them even until after the InQuest Eckstein Is still I under lock and ctv He hind a consultation yesterday afternoon with his attornev D N Slraup of the firm of Powers Slraup < Llpp min trm Inquest on the body will bo iipld at 10 oclock this morning by Acting Act-ing Coroner Bishop TALK JENITINGS Statements of Al Dunlap and William Wil-liam Richards RchCrds For nearly four hours before tho killing Jennings was In the close vicinity of tho cosI roadhouse Ho was first noticed by Al Dunlap iho proprIetor of tho l candy Bland at the corner of the roadhouse Mr Dun lap paid = yesterday The man got off the Murray car about 030 Ho came up to my stand and asked me when the I horse traders who live In the lent north of hero would ho back Ho told me that ho had ten cars of horses In the Union Pacific yards north of Salt Lake and wanted to buy some more I told him I did not know when tho horse traders would bo buck I did not notice where he went and at 6 oclock I went over to supper across the streot and left Billy Richards In charge of the sland 1 did not fee anymore any-more of the stranger that night Mr Richards who came down from Park City only two weeks ago to do some work for the proprietor of a Park City linteL added little to the statement made by Mr Dunlap He says that JennIngs told him ho had ten cars of horses In the Union Pacific yards and wanted to get enough horses from the horse traders to make up liftmen cars Jennings Jlr Richards Rich-ards says seemed lo be under lie Influence Influ-ence of liquor and stumbled against tho glasses and bottles on the stand The custodian cautioned him to be careful and he said What If I do break them I can pny for anything I break But yon are a worklngmnn you have to earn your living 150 1 will be careful nicharda says be did not pay any particular par-ticular attention to Jennings after that a ho thought ho was drunk and did not want lo have any iroublo with him He does not know whether Jennings went to the horHPtradcra lent or not Ho did notice him sitting on the piazza of tho roadhouse but could not Hay whether he went In the barroom or not At 7 oclock ocock Richards was relieved by Dunlap and left ibo vicinity of the roadhouac OUR MEN WITH ° RECORDS Eckstein and Three Witnesses Have Done Time for Various Offenses At Irnal four of the men In Fnlrohlds roadhouse at the tlmo of the killing have done time for various crimes nirney Eckstein waw convicted September W 1K > S of Helling liquor lo Indiana on the Ulntuh Indian reservation amid sentenced to elghtciii months In tlm penitentiary ando and-o line of iuX I ITe was dIscharged Aurll S 1DOO He was considered an exonfnlarv prisoner Samuel Matthews wns released from the pen only lust Thursday He was sentenced sen-tenced December 20 Jf t > from Summit enmity for attempted rape January 20 1900 ho was pardoned On Juno 20 th of the same year ho was convicted of burglar bur-glar nnd given three yearn lilt lorm expIred September 5th of this oxplrcd lh o year and It Is supposed that he went directly from the penitentiary to the roadhouse Two other inmates o the house have been found guilty of the larceny of a barrel or wit I ak EcksUcIn bought out the lenses of Milton A Fairchild on the State street nnd the Main strtsl ioadhousc3 Just before tho Elks reunion WILL HEAR THE EVIDENCE County Commissioners in No Hurry to Itevolco Roadhouse License Chairman Anderson of the Board of County Commissioner said yesterday that no action would be taken looking to time revocation of Barney Ecksteins license li-cense unless then should be some developments devel-opments t tndlrallng that he had not acted strictly In selfdefense Wn gave him a licence only lust Sat Contlnucrl on Page 3 UEST Ot JEt NNS NiEST Continued from PARC 1 urdny for the place at which the killing occurred said Mr Anderson Nobody objected to lila having a license or at least there was no protest from any source but when the application was tiled the hoard decided to make a little preliminary prelim-inary Investigation on Its own account There had boon I sonic complaints lodged with us regarding tin way his resort at Main and Twelfth South streets was conducted con-ducted and WI wanted to know how he proponed to conduct the new place lie came boibrc the board and assured un that he Intendrd to observe the law strictly and to keep I respectable well ordered establishment On these assurances assur-ances and In tho abicncci of any objection objec-tion we gave him u license because ns a matter go fnct there was nothing else l for us to do Xow that he has sot Into trouble I think we sjiould refrain from revoking bin license unleus It shall become be-come evident that ho has violated the law I the developments In tho case arc unfavorable to his claim of having nct din d-in selfdefense It will clearly become our duty to revoke his license after giving the three days notice required by law In such easeL |