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Show SENDS BULLET I THROUGH HEAD I Unidentified Man Shoots and Kills Tom Churchill in Heidelberg Saloon. OFFICER PERMITS SLAYER H TO ESCAPE THROUGH RUSE H Killing Is Immediate Result of Quarrel, but Deeper Motive Is Suspected. Shot through the head. Tom Churchill was murdered by an unidentified roan in H the IIcjdclbcr saloon this (Friday) morning at 1:45 o'clock. The murderer J escaped. The body of Churchill was re- J moved to the undertaking rooms of O'Donncll & Co. With J. LI. Laviu, A. C. Johns and ono other, besides the murderer, Churchill, who had been drinking heavily, was seat-cd seat-cd In the Heidelberg saloon, when an ar-gumeut ar-gumeut started. In the argument both Churchill and the murderer, who was the smaller of tho two, became abusive. Churchill Is said to have kicked tho smaller man, who then went out of the jH saloon and returned In a short time with a revolver. Stepping in front of Church-ill, Church-ill, who wus standing before the cigar stand, the murderer shot his victim and then darted out of the saloon. Murderer Make3 Escape. Patrolman Patterson, who was stand-ing stand-ing on the curb at the intersection of Main and Third South streets, heard the shot and saw tho man nyi out of the saloon. He caught the murderer and started back to the saloon, not know-Ing know-Ing what had occurred. On the way to tho saloon the murderer told Patrolman Pat-terson Pat-terson that thero had been a shooting and that he had been running because he did not want to bo mixed up in the ai-fair ai-fair as a witness. . Just at that moment two men darted out of the saloon. Patrolman Patterson released tho murderer and started after the men who were running, under tho jH Impression that they wcro the guilty per-sons. per-sons. They both escaped. AVheu Patrolman Patterson returned to the saloon, ho discovored from tlie rest jH of the witnesses that he had lot the murderer escape. Inasmuch as the po-llco po-llco have bcon furnished with a good description of the murderer his arrest Is but a question of hours, they say. As soon as the shooting occurred some of the friends of Churchill telephoned to Jennie Putlon, tho mistress of Churchill, who wus in Greoktown. She went to the scene of the shooting in a taxicab and made arrangements for the care of jH the body. Thu ball ontered the head Just below the left eye, penetrating the brain. IH Death was instantaneous. . Tho real motive for the shooting the police havo been unable lo learn. It Is ll believed thnt thero was something more jjH to the. motive than a mere iiuarrcl. jH |