Show TWO LIBERAL VOTES GONE the tragedy in Front of the salt lake tribune office an sunday afternoon salt lake had another shooting affray the participants being tribune compositors fraula D romayne is the namo of the one who was killed and thomas M hughes is tho ono who did the shooting there has been bad blood between the two for some time arising in this way romayne cama from new york whore he has relatives and five months ago located in salt lake hughea is from independence mo and has been here two months J B lannon another compositor came from sari francisco a month ago about three weeks ago hughes put on a new suit of clothes and a silk hat and went into the tribune office where all of them were working lannon began guying him about his pine hat and romayne aleo joined in the result was a quarrel and lannon remarked to hughes td as soon slop you in the mouth as anyone I 1 know hughee drew a pocket knife but the two were separated romayne took cannons Lan part and from that time there was a coolness between him and highes romayne had a very sarcastic way of expressing himself at times and he did not fail to make hughes the butt of his irony thera wore quarrels between the two in one of which romayne said to hughes if you ever want a gun fight or a knife fight I 1 am an expert at cither from that time hughes seemed a little afraid of the other this was partly from romaynel Ro maynes manner and partly from hia well known physical condition ho had undergone several surgical operations and it was uncertain whether or not he could bo cured he had as to whether he lived or not and this gave an air of recklessness to him A day or two before the shooting he remarked to a fellow workman 1 I am going to die next week the other replied that he was joking and ho said seriously its a fact 1 am next week will b my last but I 1 dont care these re had no reference to the tragedy which followed but were understood to relate to romaynel Ro maynes physical condition on friday last he brought his pistol with him to work and when asked what he was going to do replied oh somes of a b might pull a gun oh me this referred to hughes the remark but said nothing highes afterwards tolda companion named daniels thai he believed romayne intended to kill him and said if ever there was any trouble it would be serious on sunday morning he borrowed a pistol a five shooter smith wesson 38 calibre loaded all round he went to daniels room and stated that at 3 that morning just as they were quitting romayne cocked the gun in his face and called him a s of a b three or four times and wanted to have a gun fight hughes asked ha had against him and the reply was ob you s of a b I 1 dont like you anyway romagne threatened if he saw him sunday to kill him this was hughes statement and he also said that romayne had followed him to the street and snapped his pistol twice at him but it failed to go off A few minute Ei after 2 on sunday afternoon romayne F M pinneo E D burlingame and itofe arthur all printers were standing in front of the tribune office hughes and daniels cam down the street from the east and when within about two hundred deot of the quartette named hughes stepped from the sidewalk into the street four or five feet and turned and said to romayne now come out here you s of a b you had the drop on me last night with your gun but you got it now im heeled coma out and fight like a man ho showed his gun and again called romayne a s of a b and said bome out and fight romayne said go on now and do your shooting and laughed at him go ahead and shoot he said again pinneo started for hughes to stop him he edged around to the sidewalk and came out with his pistol in his ha nd hughes backe d off a little and the firing commenced after the fourth shot hughes went around the corner did not fire or evan rm an his hi s pistol it was the third or foeth that bit him just back of and above the left hip the bullet was afterwards cufa out of tho right breast where it came between tho skin and the ab nb pinneo went up to romayne and said you are not hit are you frank the other replied yep I 1 am right here in the stomach pinneo took hold of him and ho laid down on the sidewalk and never spoke again A doctor was on the scene within a minute and policeman cummock met hughes and arrested him before the officer took him he had removed three of the five empty cartridges from his pistol romayne lived about ten minute his pistol had two loads in it when hughes was brought around to where the dying man lay he remarked that he was sorry for what occurred but he did it in self defense he asked P EL lannan manager of the tribune to telegraph to judge hughes at independence mo and gave the address on a leaf from his note book on the back of this leaf was a note to mr pinneo written by hughes saying that S B Lanno nand romayne were in a conspiracy to kill him and requesting certain affairs to be attended to in case anything happened this note was taken possession of by P H lannan who declined to give it to the policeman but it will probably be forthcoming at the examination of hughes which was set for yesterday at 10 a m an inquest was held monday and the jury brought m a that romayne came to his death from a bullet fired by hughes but that the shooting was done without sufficient provocation romayne was buried tuesday afternoon H was about 28 years of age and hughes is about 30 neither has any relatives in this part of the coun |