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Show SLItll ESCAPES IFTMOOTINC, W. H. Scott Killed in Broadway Rooming House Early Sunday Morning. Police Seek Unknown Man, Declared by Proprietor to Be Murderer. W. IT. Scott, 20 years of ago, a guest nt the Weldoti hotel, 23 East Broadway, was found by the police In a dying condition con-dition In room No. 2; on the third floor of the hotel yesterday morning about 4 j o'clock. He hud been .shot with wh:it Is: thought to he an automatic pistol. The hullet entered the neck on the left side, lodging in the jaw, according to the nurse who examiner! him In the emergency hospital. hos-pital. Ilo died without making a state ment a few minutes after the police entered en-tered the room. Nellie Scott, his wife, and E. L. "Middle-ton, "Middle-ton, proprietor of the hotel, were taken to the police station and are -being held as material witnesses. Mrs. Scott appeared ap-peared to have been drinking .and was in a dazed condition, the police said. Some etnptv whisky flasks were found In the room and one flask contained a small amount of the liquor. Implicate Greek. Both Middlcton and Mrs. Seott told a story of an unknown Creek with whom Scott had been fighting, who, the-v s;l1''' had fired the fatal shot and then escaped. Neither one of them could identity the man he name, hut said they thought they would 'be able to point him out if they saw him. Middlcton said he saw him once when he came into the hotel earlier in the evening eve-ning with another finest named Jim Ken-toln Ken-toln and asked to rent a room. Middle-ton Middle-ton said because his hotel was crowded he was unable to rent him a room and the two men went up to Kcntoin's room, lie said he did not see either of thorn enter or leave the hotel again. Mrs. Scott .said she had talked to the man, but did not know his name. She had talked both to him and to Kentoin, she said, but did not know either of them very well. Screams for Help. Middleton says he was renting a room to a guest some time between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning when he heard a woman scream from the tloor above, "Oh, Mid! Oh, Mid!" lie ran up the stairs, he said, and saw Scott and a Greek lighting light-ing in the corridor, lie separated them, ' he said, and ordered them both to go to their rooms. They were about In front of room No. 31, which was occupied by the Greek named Jim Kentoin. The other Greek, the alleged slayer, he said, ran into .Kentoln's room and came out with a revolver. As Seojtt reached the door of his room. No 25, ho turned and faced the Greek, who fired. Scttt reeled and fell into his own room, where he died. The slaver ran into room No. 31 and locked the door, Middleton said, and, as he did not come out again, ho thougnt he climbed out of the window and escaped by way of the fire escape. 'Kentoin has not been located, and It is not known by the police whether or not ho was in the hotel at the time of the murder. lie mav have mingled with the other guests of the hotel after the ambulance from the police station reached the hotel, according ac-cording to the theory of the police. Scott was dying when the police, called by Middleton, arrived, and was unable to make any statement. Man Exhibits Gun. Further information was furnished by K. L. Jackson, who said he was a dele-pate dele-pate of the Brotherhood of Ulectrical AVorkers. who was occupying room No. 10 on the second floor. He had been In the company of Mrs. Scott during the eveirng and sue had left him a few minutes min-utes after 3 o'clock, which was about ten minutes, he said, before the shooting. Karller in the evening, he said, he had been with Mrs. Scott in Mr. and Mrs. Middleton's room, and, while they were talking, a man called Mrs. Scott to the door. The man, he said, was dark-complexioned and wore a mustache. .While talking, talk-ing, this man exhibited a gun, he said. A gun was found on Jackson and he said he had carried tills because of some trouble he had had with the "red element" ele-ment" while working In Butte. Mont. The gun he had. according to the police, was dusty and did not look as though it had ben used for a long time. Two Greeks. Mike Hamamakis and John Kounalas, who were in room No. 30 nt. the hotel, were arrested. They said that they knew Kentoin and that he was an apprentice barber. They couid not identify the other Greek, thought to bo the slayer. Wife Refuses to Talk. Mrs. Scott, who was also a witness to the murder, refused to talk. She appeared ap-peared to be in a dazd condition when the police questioned her, and expressed preat grief over the death of her husband. hus-band. "Ask Middleton who shot him," she said : "he 1 nows." Mrs. Scott told the police she hnd been n woman of the streets since rooming at the M'eklon hotel :md had complained, according ac-cording to Mrs. Middleton. that she was hardly able to earn a living. She said that a Orcek had offered her a posi t ion in a soft drink parlor in sou t hern I tali and that she was Inclined to take It after she -consulted with her husband. Tills, it is thought by the police, may have resulted re-sulted in the quarrel which brought on the shooting of Scot.t. Mrs. Scott wore a pink and white checked house dress wlu-n arrested, and this was covered wi th blood. When the police arrived at the scene of the shooting shoot-ing she was franticallv running a round the room, and. when they entered, made an effort to jump out of the window. Nothing was found in the room into which the alleged murderer ran, except a bundle of hi urn fry. which Mrs. Middle-ton Middle-ton said she thought belonged to Kentoin. who had occupied the mom for nhout t hroe weeks. The gun wit li which Scott Is said tn have been killed was not found. According to letters found in the Scott room, the couple had come here from -Mhurjut-npie. N. M., and lived during October at 1 20 O street, and from t here they moved to the Weldon hotel. I'aptrs found in the effects of Scott in.l b-a t ed that he had been arrest. -d in New Mexico for bootlegging and was at one time out of prison on a parole.. |