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Show p ATROLMAN J. C. ('JIMMY') ANDERSON, who shot and fatally wounded A. E. Hutchinson Hutch-inson when the latter tried to shoot him in endeavoring to escape after he had murdered William Houghton, shown below. 11 1 l Ifi BUSINESS DISTRICT SCENE OF SITI William Houghton Greet His Friend and Is Shot Without Warning; Warn-ing; A. E. Hutchinson, the Slayer, Tries to Escape and Is Fatally Wounded by Bullet From Patrolman An derson's Gun. MOTIVE OF CRIME IS A MYSTERY Intense Excitement Prevails Pre-vails at Main and First South Streets After Tragedy; Victim of Policeman Lives Two Hours, but Makes No Explanation of Deed Before Dying An unknown motive thought by the police to perhaps have been a quarrel over some woman was the cause last night of the deliberate murder of Wil liam Honghton by A. E Hutchinson his pal of b t an hour before and the subsequent fatal shooting of Hutchin son by Patrolman J C Jimmy ) Anderson Houghton accompanied bv Patrick Crow came out of a saloon on First South street just east of Main street, at about 10 lo o clock and walked west About thirty yards wet of Main street they met Hutchinson. Hello Baid Houghton to Hutch Inson froa whom he had parted in front of a Second South street saloon earlier in the evening At the same t me Houghton extended his r ght hand toward Hutchinson The latter leveled a revol er and fired w thoot speaking a word The bullet struck Houghton m the che t just over the heart The man 1 ved but a moment. Tried to Escape Pocketing h s gun Hutch nson zig zagged across the street toward the Mo Cornick build ng entrance In the mid die of tKe street Patrolman Anderson caught him by the shoulder and com manded him to surrender Hutchinson struggled drew his gun end pointed it over h s shoulder at the pol ceman. The policeman shot f rst, the bullet en termg Hutchinson s shoulder and rang ing downward into the right lung In the remarkably brief time re quired for the enactment of the tragedy and tho exc ting capture First South street becan e a seeth ng mass of peo pie Won en screamed men shouted street cars and automobiles came to a standst 11 and traffic became blocked It was with great diff culty that the patrol wagon loaded w th everj a ail able off ccr at headquarter"! made it3 wav through the crowd Inspector Carlson (. eorgo Cleveland and Carl Carstemen detectives J E Woodard motorcycle patrolman and TVill a n Brown driver of the patrol, responded. Both Hutch nson the wounded ninr derer and the body of Houghton were hurr e 1 to the police emergency hop tal After a hasty examinat on of Hutchinson s wounds Dr H B S, ragua had him re no ed to St Mark s where he d ed two hours late Houghton Well Known Hou h on w o a. e son of OeorfiO Hough on b e d n got wa ch man ed w h 5a en a 0 M ree He a. ears of age anri had been n s3 He w we 1 now n n (Continued oa Page TonrJ MAN SHOT DEAD 01 FIRSTSDUTH Slayer Then Draws His Gun on a Police Officer and Is Fatally Wounded. (Continued from Page One.) Salt Lake, having spent practically all of his life here. For the past nine years he had ay or ken! at different employment in the Garfield-smelter, Garfield-smelter, parving more recently as motor-man motor-man on slag cars. He was a cripple, having lost a leer In an accident some ypars ago, and wore b. cork limb. The body was removed to the Kvans undertaking under-taking rooms, where it awaits funeral arrangement?. ar-rangement?. Papers in Hutchinson's pockets show that, he formerlv worked as a miner In -Alaska and. until May. 1918, was a member mem-ber of the Western Federation of Miners. He held a release card from the order, tinted at Douglas. Alaska. June, 1913. He registered, at the Lincoln house, on First South street, on the night of December De-cember 8, from Butte. No personal effects ef-fects whatever were found in his room, which he paid for from night to night. Letters and papers showed that he was recentlv at Firth, Idaho, and that he had an account with D. W. Stand rod & Co., bankers, of Elackfoot, Idaho. Letter Is Found. Tn his clothing was a letter from X. J. Thorstenberg & Son, Firth. Idaho, advising advis-ing him that they were inclosing a check for $25 "as per your telephone request from Sheltev." The letter was dated November No-vember 7. Other papers and receipts in-dicatPd in-dicatPd that he had lived in Wallace. Idaho, and was a member of a miners union in Butte. He was apparently oO vears old, had light hair and brown eyes and weighed about 170 pounds. "Jimmy" Anderson, as he is called by acquaintances, is known as one of the most fearless officers on the local force, and has on several occasions performed acts of bravery which brought commen--elation from his superiors. During this month he does dutv on the afternoon and evening shift on First South street, In the business section. Patrolman J. C C'Jimmy") Anderson was on First South street, about 100 varris awav, when he hard the shot. Turning, he saw the man fall and caught sight of the fleeing form of the man who had fired the shot. Keeping close to the buildings, yet making all possible haste, A Anderson gave chase and overtook the! man at the car tracks in the middle of; First South street. The man was furtively fur-tively looking behind him and, observing observ-ing the officer, drew his gun, which he bad hurriedly replaced in its scabbard ji iter shooting Houghton. Before he 'cu!fl turn around to face the officer, the latter was upon him and had his arms pinioned to his sides. Hutchinson sank to his knees, the officer retaining a tight grip upon him. Joined by Vance. At this juncture, Patrolman G. A. Vance, who also had heard the shot, arrived ar-rived upon the scene, approaching Officer Of-ficer Anderson and his struggling captive from across the street, so that they were both facing him. Vance says that the kneeling man held a revolver in his hand, and called to' his brother officer to shoot, warning him of his danger, i Vance, from his position, dared not fire 1 a shot for fear of killing Anderson. It was then that ' Anderson saw the gun in the man's hand. Hutchinson had struggled into such a position that he was able to point the muzzle of the revolver re-volver over his shoulder, and in another instant would have pulled the trigger, but Anderson was quick enough to block the movement by sending a bullet from his own gun Into his captive's right shoulder. It entered the top of the sheukler, ranged downward and lodeed somewhere in the vicinity of the right lung. Officer Vance, in the meantime, had readied the struggling men, and had the muzzle of his revolver against the stomach stom-ach of Hutchinson, when he saw the latter lat-ter release his grip upon the revolver which he held in his right hand, the weapon falling to the pavement. Told of Tragedy. Mrs. Houghton, the mother of the murder mur-der victim, was alone in her home when her husband told her over the telephone what had happened. The Houghton tele-phono tele-phono is on a partv line with that of H. W. Brock ofsn N street. Both telephones tele-phones rune; when Mr. Houghton called his home and Mi-; Ldith Brock answered .inyi in time to hear Mr. Houghton tell his wife that William had been shot. She -heard Mrs. Houghton scream and. ' turning quickly, told her mother. Mrs. ! Brock hurried to the Houghton resi- ; dnce and found the mother in a . critical state of collapse. She summoned : help and began working with the suf- ! fering woman. Dr. R. A. Bowda was! summoned and remained in attendance J for more than an hour. At an early I hour this morning a report from the i home was to the effect that Mrs. Hough- j ton was considerably improved. The motive for the murder was a puzzle puz-zle in police circles last night. Eye-witnesses to the actual shooting of Houghton differed widely in their statements and, , upon repeated questioning, qualified many of their statements. Crow declared positively pos-itively that no word was spoken by Hutchinson before he shot Houghton, although al-though the latter had greeted the murderer. mur-derer. Crow also declared that he had never seen Hutchinson before. It was his opinion that the men were total strangers, but that Hutchinson took fright at Houghton suddenly extending" his hand and may have thought Houghton had a weapon. When searched no gun was found on Houghton. From other sources Information reached the- police that the two principals in the tragedy had earlier in the evening been seen in a saloon on Second South street i and to have, parted after exchanging heated remarks, Hutchinson going west : on Second South street and Houghton north on Commercial street. Houghton ;md Crow met in the Council bar, 8 East First South street, and it was after leaving leav-ing tills place that the tragedy occurred. Crow declares that he was taking Houghton Hough-ton to the depot to catch a train for Garfield. 1 The theory of mistaken identity Is also urged by some of the police as a possible cause for the crime. Those inclined to i this view declare that the two men i could not have quarreled and parted with I mutual threats because Houghton was I unarmed. |
