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Show DUKE'S SOU sunsjws William McNair Shooti T. Williams When LatU 1 Calls on Former Wife. PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE Tragedy Follows When the Men Meet Unexpectedly at Home of Woman. Edward T. 'Williams, conuceted with an employment agency at 72 Kast Second South street, was fatally shot yestorday afternoon by 'William Osborn McNair, said to be a brother of the chief of police of Jackson, Ga., and himself a former member of the police depar?Nit of that city. The shooting took place, a room or' a lodging house at 1-11 West, North Temple street, Williams's di- vorced wife and seven-yeir old daughter witnessing the tragedy. Williams died at the emergency hospital hos-pital shortly niter (3 o'oelock last night and a chargo of murder was made, against McNair. The shooting was the culmination of a number of meetings between Williams and McNair, the latter, it is said, hay- , ing been in the company of Williams's former wife when the' meetings took place. Called to Say Good-by. McNair and Mrs. Williams wer walking walk-ing to the latter 's home on Tuesday night when they met Williams, according accord-ing to Mrs. Williams. She told her former husband, she said, that she was going to Idaho or to California within a couple of days. Williams asked permission per-mission to call and say good-by to their daughter. Yesterday shortly before 3 o'clock he called at. the. home of his former wile. They met in the, room of Mrs. Jennie Ci. Culp, a roomer in the same house. McNair was in the room at the same tinie, having helped Mrs. Williams Wil-liams up stairs, she, according to her story, having fallen on the steps on the way into the house. According t the story given to the police by Mrs. Williams, she was applying apply-ing a liniment to a bruised ankle. The little girl, liUlu, kept getting in her way and McNair is alleged to have 'said. "Get out of the way, honey. Two Bullets Hit. Williams resented McNair addressing the child as "honey," Mrs. Williams said, and so told McNair. Then, -she explained, Williams made a motion1 as if to reach toward his hip pocket ;Vd McNair pulled a revolver and f'.L twice, one shot taking effect in WiTV liauis's side and the other in his head. X, Mrs.' Williams grabbed the gun, she told the police, and as she did so it explodedg again, the shot striking Williams in'f neck. The wounded man was rus'icd rn the emergency hospital, jrvbereDr. "W. S. Keyting made every effort to save his life. He made a dying statement to the chief of police and county attorney an hour before he expired. ' "You can't call my child 'honey.' You can have my wife, but not my child." Williams is alleged to have declared de-clared just before he wTas shot, according accord-ing to Mrs. Williams's story. Pleads Self-defense. McNair declarer! that he had shot only in self-defense and that he had not shot with the intention of killing Williams. He .declared tha.t Williams had threatened threat-ened him on different occasions and that he had his revolver sent to hira from his Georgia home in order to protect pro-tect himself., 1 "Mr. McNair dreamed about this only a few nights ago," Mrs. Williams said last night, just after she had been told that her former husband had expired. i"He dreamed that Mr. Williams would j pick a quarrel and that he would have ' to shoot him. " . I McNair nd not give the police a : statement last night, the authorities ! having decided to wait until today, j Sworn statements were taken, however, from Mrs. Williams, Williams and Mrs. Gulp. The dead man is survived bv a father and two brothers, W. R. W'illiams, a real estate man, living at 8-14 Washington Washing-ton street, and D. J. Williams, who is in tlie clothing business in San Francisco. Francis-co. It was his second marriage, according accord-ing to his brother. j Gives Wife Insurance. Mrs. Williams is a daughter of W. E. Tyrrell of -17:1 South West Temple , 'street. Her father and mother havrr i been divorced and have remarried, i explained. She has a brother, Oreu ""- A j Tyrrell living in Louisville, Idaho- ta sister living in Los Angeles. 1 After Williams had made hi dy ! statement yesterday afternoon his for- f j mer wife, was allowed to visit him for I a few minutes. He told her, she said, I that he did not blame her, and that 4 his insurance, $1000, was to go to her V and their daughter. McNair surrendered himself to the police when Patrolmen G. G. Smith and William Pierce reached the house, but he was too much under the influence of liquor, they said, to give any of the details. Last night he refused to talk. : |