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Show DEWEY TAKEN I FROM JAIL TO I FOIL LYNCHERS I . h-' Man Who Shot Sergeant Is 5 Hurried to the Peni- B tent'iary Early This j Morning. I PLEADS DRINK AS H HIS ONLY EXCUSE kH Hopes Are Now Entertained 's That the Wounded Of- l H ficer Will Re- ' H cover. :ic:' THREATS of lynching E. .L. j! Dewey, who shot and dangerous- ( fl ly wounded Police Sergeant J. P 'M Henry Johnston at 3 o'clock " Wednesday morning at the Albert i'v hotel, prompted the police early this P'l morning to rcmovo Dewey from the ji city null to the state prison. . The removal of Ucwe followed sev- fl cral persistent reports which roachod ) the police station that a large nam- her of persons who had known Sor- j geant Johnston were quietly arranging t ,M to take Dewey from the jail and lynch ''. him. One rumor had it that a rope had J, IH been secured and that an attack on the Jl jail would be made before iiforning. L Dewey -WUS quietly taken from the jail by the police officers and rushed !' in an' automobile to the state prison. I r At. first Dewey objected to going to i IH the peniteutiary, but when he was told f - tlsat there was possible danger of lynch- h ing, he quickly acquiesced in the 7lan , of the officers. At the state prison h he is. of course, free from any danger i 4' of a mob. ''1 Sergeant Johnston's condition was r' considerably improved last night and at I 'M an early "hour this morning reports 1 ' from St. Marks hospital were, that Crl there wero hopes for the officer's re; Tfil covcrv. The "bullet nenetratcd the ah- KalH domcii and lodged in the. muscles of j. tho back. Tn its-'0oursc the bullet per- l"' forated the intestines, nine times. iH From the perforations of the intestines the greatest danger comes. The bullet K'flH was a soft-noied one and may have h carried infection with it. It was feared last night that thcro was danger .if r-H peritonitis. However, this had not dc- u vcloped at an early hour this morning K H and the case been me more hopeful. fVH r Operation Performed. j Immediately after the shooting yes- S;H tordav morniug Sergeant Johnston un- nflH dcrwent a ' serious operation sit St. hH Murks hospital. The bullet was traced and efforts made to heal the internal t ' 'H injuries. No attempt, was made to re- j move the bullet. V'l Sergeant Johnston was greatly weak- ened from the loss of blood, but he nil- f' lied from the effects of the anaesthetic. ) He is a man of no bad habits and J M has a constitution of iron. He was , in the best of health and physicians 'JflH say that this is a strong factor in his ' 'HH f.ivor. , '1 Dewev's only explanation of the f shooting was that he was crazy drunk. , He said he was jealous of his wife and I had thought of killing her aud him- r self, but had no thought of killing -the officer and could give no reason for doing so save that he was so drunk " IH that he did not know what he wae j doing. iti Dewey says that he was formerly em 'H ployed ' as "a clerk at Jeff 's Snioko &H House and moro latterly by the Pink- IVI crton Detective agotiev. Superintcn- " dent Willsic of the Ptnkcrton agency in Salt Lako said that Dewey was not "t a regular employee of the agency but ' that, ho had worked some for the Pink- ! Represented Pinkertons. !! fl Information received from Elko. 'y Nov.. last night was that Dewey had lcu represented the Pinkertons in the Dye- Primeaux arion case new ou trial at J Elko, working in tho interests of W. , Scwell of Tuscarora, tho complaining lull witness. Dewey was in Elko in Jauu- jrl ary and February of this year. On rK each occasion he was placed in the jail .' 'H for tho purpose of securing iufornia- tioh from Dye. one of the defendants .':flJ It was said that the prosecution hoped vfcl that Dewey might gain Dye's , confi- ) "1 Contiuucd ou Page Fourteen. tr,! DEWEY II PRISON TO FtllCIIERS Persistent Reports Prompt Police Po-lice to Place Johnston's Assailant As-sailant in Penitentiary. Continued From Page One. ilcnco and thus secure some information informa-tion of value to the prosecution. JIo returned to Elko again on June 8, going there for the purpose of giving giv-ing testimony as to alleged convcrsu tions with Dve. Ho testified on Thurs day and was excused immediately af terward, claimiug that it was necessary neces-sary that; ho. go to Salt Lake to meet his wife who .wan returning from California, Cali-fornia, lie testified that he came originally orig-inally from Durango, ('olo., and that lie hhd boon in the employ of tho Pink-ertons Pink-ertons for about a your. During his last sojourn in Elko ho drank a great deal and while intoxi- eated frequently displayed his Pink-orton Pink-orton card and his revolver, boasting of the fact thai ho was a special officer offi-cer in Nevada. To sonic he declared that Ills wife was an opera singer, at one time with Weber & Fields. Dewey Makes Statement. To the police yesterday Dewey made the following statement of the shooting shoot-ing and tho circumstances thai, led up to it: "My name is Elmer L. Dewey, and 3 am 27 years old. J am married and live with my wife. Wo have no children. chil-dren. I have lived in this city six years, continuously except for one visit to my mother, who lives at Durango, Colo. " I. am a Pinkcrton detective by occupation. occu-pation. I havo been employed as a detective de-tective by the local Pinkcrton agency for one year and 1113' specialty is criminal crim-inal cases. "I havo lived at the Albert hotel since .January. My wife has not been with 1110 continuously since that time. She ran away with Phil Martin, a fruit salesman, in February. She came back to me at my solicitation a month later. "She told mo that she was going to visit, "with Mrs. W. 13. Hunt at Ala-' meda, Cal., but did not go there, going away with Martin instead. 1 sent her to California afterward to get her away from here so we could forgot the past and bo happy together. She came back to the city. "I warned her to stay away from the Albert hotel. We were unhappy there. She told me In February that she would come back to me and be right. I begged her to stay away from the Albert and she promised. "We had freciuont quarrels ovor her desire to live at that hotel. There are a lot of race horse people thore, and she had been drinking with them. "I went to her yesterday and told hor that If she continued to live with mo she would have to leave the Albert hotel. I said we would have to get out of that place. I had rented a flat and told her so. She said she would move to tho flat with mo tomorrow that would be today. July 6. Wife Went to Races. "I asked her to not go to the races yesterday with some people she had been running with. She went anyway. She didn't corne home until after midnight. "I had spent the grcator part of the afternoon nnd night looking for her. I had been drinking considerably, whisky and champagne and everything else through the night. I looked for her In different cafes frequented by lhe fast set. I did not And hor. "When I came back she was in the room. I iusked her If site was going to tho flat. She said yes, she would go Wednesday night. She had been drinking, drink-ing, too. "We quarreled, and I was drunk. No, I was all alone when I was hunting for her. I met a fow friends in a cafe but didn't slay with them very long. I was determined to find my wife. , "I had found lotters In the room which she had written to Phil Martin, trying to locate him. "When I was in the room with her I had a gun on. I took It out and laid it on the dresser and she said, "Don't point that thing ai mc." "Tho officers came up to the room and I picked up the gun. Why did I pick It up? Lord, I don't know. I was crazy wild. "The officer came over to mc. I had the gun In my hand. It was cocked. I had planned to kill my wife and then commit suicide. I don't remember the officer speaking roughly to me. I don't remember what he said. I don't remember remem-ber that he treated me roughly. "Tho oftlcer came over to me and we were, close together. I can't remember what he said, or what I said. "My God, the thing was Just fired oft'. I don't remember even pointing it at him. I fell the same time he.did. I don't know whether he fell on me and pushed me over or if the other officer knocked ine down. "I nover had a bit of trouble with him. I had seen him lots of times as he walked his beat pasl tho cigar shop where I was employed as a salesman. "I had it In my brain all the evening lo kill my wife and lo kill myself too. That's all thero Is to It that I know. "My wlfo's maiden name was Minnie ChrlsteiiKeii, and before her marriage she lived with her people in Brigham City. Wo went over from Brigham Cltv to Og-deu Og-deu four years ago June 10, and were married." Mrs. Dewey Released. Mrs. Dewey was released from the county Jail shortly after noon yesterday, the police being of the opinion thai she was not connected with the shooting in such way as to warrant her being held In custody. After her release, Mrs. Dewey returned to her rooms In tho Albert Al-bert and declined to "00 Interviewed. Mrs. Dewey's maiden name was Chris-tensen Chris-tensen and her parents reside in Brigham City. She was married to Dewey at Option Op-tion on Juno 10. 1007. They have no children. Mrs. Dewey was permitted to talk with hor husband for some time at the city jail Wcdnesdav afternoon, after which Dewey said: "She Isn't going back on me now." " |