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Show " ' 7 " " 7 , O r -i o v " . "-7 7 v.- nnT-T. rT v : - I " i 1 , ' ) I 1 Aonr L :otc Arc ':'""-5'.t:LIrs: , ..ouic i,iariii.b7 i,.rc. a t You let her go, once, .and 'this Is the outcome." Mrs. Douglas Is then alleged to have ' said to one of tbe policemen who was guarding her: , ; , . r Cam to XH1 Ilsr . 1 am the one who shot her. I' came' here to kill her. She stole my husband. ' she wrecked ray .life, she ruined my home. What would you do In such a ; case?" i , , i As soon as Mrs. Douglas' was taken from the place, Mrs. Martin's friends called' a physician who examined the wound inflicted by the bullet from Mrs. . Douglas' revolver. He found that it was but a sllsrht flesh wound, and that it would probably be but a-short time' before it healed. , - - Mrs. ;axtln was almost prostrated by , the shock, after the excitement had sub-' . '. sided.- , V.'hen Mrs. Doug-'.as was taken to the. police etatloa she, was escorted to ths detetk.ves room, where t e said ''".e,. had come to the city from Boise,. I a last Sam -day night. he t - 1 sro t i i f-'r-s ti liolse froi l"ire a icW r -r;i-.s after so'ling all of her ro-- sijns, , .-. .4 wder tu j,a&.fcr husband's c. ii; ' ' . . (Hvsi Letters t Polio. She declared that she had in her possession pos-session a number of letters which Mrs. Martin had written to her husband. The contents of these letters, she said, would amply justify her action.' She is then said to have given the letters which she ' alleged were written by Mrs. Martin, to the police. . ' Mrs. Douglas and Mrs. Martin clashed last September and as a result Mrs. Douglas was hauled into the Police court on a' charge of assault and battery. bat-tery. She was found guilty of this charge and was sentenced to pay a fine of $15. It was alleged by Mrs. Martin, who was the complaining witness, that Mrs. Douglas went to the Savoy rooming-house in the early hours of the evening and rang the bell, summoning -Mrs. Martin to the top of the landing. Dragged Her Down Stairs. It was alleged that Mrs. Douglas stepped out of sight behind a partition, and when Mrs. Martin appeared, seized . her by the hair and dragged her half way down stairs. Patrolman Horace Heath was passing pass-ing the place and. hearing the sounds of a struggle and the screams of the wo-mon. wo-mon. rushed in and separated them. Mrs. Martin swore to the complaint ' A on which Mrs. Douglas was arrested, and insisted on prosecuting her. Mrs. Douglas did not appear at any time in " " I the courtroom, and was represented during the entire progress of the case by counsel, Dana T. Smith. Was a Society Woman. Mrs. Douglas is the wife of Jay T. Douglas, employed as city ticket agent of the Union Pacific Railroad company here, and at one time moved in high social so-cial life. Since their troubles commenced Mrs. Douglas moved to Boise, Ida., where Douglas Is now thought to be living. Mrs. Martin denies that she has had any improper relations with Douglas, or that she has written any letters to him that are compromising. She has endeavored to conduct her rooming-house rooming-house on an entirely respectable basis. She and her friends say a great injustice injus-tice has been done her by Mrs. Douglas' accusations. Mrs. Lottie Martin waa shot in the back by Mrs. Ida Dou'.aa, at the Savoy , rooming-house, 329 South West Temple' street, at 10 o'clock Monday morning, and slightly wounded." ; : "Result of Domestic Trouble, ; ' . . The shooting was the result of domestic do-mestic troubles of long "standing. " A soon as possible after the shooting Mrs. Douglas gave herself up to the police, and was taken to the police station, where she is held pending. aa Investigation. Investi-gation. . . - - .. . . Jleea to Avoid JJolleti. .,...,'.. The shooting started In the rooming-house, rooming-house, which la on the second pr of the building at West Temple and Market Mar-ket streets, and ended in a blacksmith svo- in Market street,"where MrsMar-t MrsMar-t i b escape the bullets fired: by . i. vent to the roinlng-hou. roinlng-hou. atTew-mtnotes WforeTt o'clock and asked Miss Louise Hslllday, a chambermaid, to assign her a room for the day. The chambermaid told Mrs. Douglas that there were no rooms left, as all had been filled up Sunday night. Mrs. Douglas then asked to see the proprietor, Mrs. Martin, and the latter was called by the maid. Began Firing at Once. According to the statements made by. Mrs. Martin and the maid, Mrs. Douglas Doug-las drew a revolver from her coat as soon as Mrs. Martin appeared, and opened fire on her. Four shots were fired. As soon as Mrs. Douglas began to shoot, Mrs. Martin ran screaming through the house, pursued by the infuriated in-furiated woman, who continued to pump the bullets at her as fast as she could pull the trigger. Inflicts Slight Wound. Mrs. Martin ran down the stairs, pursued by a bullet, which struck her on the right side of the small of the back, entering the flesh about five inches above the thigh, and emerging about two Inches from the point of entrance, en-trance, inflicting a slight flesh wound. As soon as the shooting commenced, the maid rushed to a telephone and called the police department, notifying the desk sergeant that a woman had been shot and killed in the rooming-house. rooming-house. The patrol wagon went at once to the scene of the shooting, carrying Police Sergeants Hempel and Edding-ton, Edding-ton, and Patrolmen Sperry and Armstrong. Arm-strong. Gives Herself Up. As soon as the squad reached the curb in front of the rooming-house Mrs. Douglas stepped from the entrance, en-trance, and walked to the wagon. She gave herself up at once to the officers, sayslng: "I shot that woman. I don't know whether I killed her or not. Here is the gun. in this satchel." She then handed the revolver, a .32-cahber .32-cahber Smith & Wesson, to the sergeant, ser-geant, and asked to be taken to the station at once. As Mrs. Douglas stepped into the wagon wa-gon and handed the revolver to the policeman, po-liceman, Mrs. Martin appeared in the door of the blacksmith shop where she had concealed herself. Mrs. Douglas saw her 'and cried: "I haven't killed her; there she is." Talks of Letters. Turning to Mrs. Martin she said: "You will write letters to my husband, hus-band, will your' Mrs. Martin's dree was covered with blood from her wound, and cs she started for the rooming-'house entrance, en-trance, she said to the policemen: , - "I want protection from this woman. |