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Show y &r & & & zr & ISe'K BATEMAN Jilted Suitor Stabs Rival After Having Been Bested in Fistic Battle. According to Officers , i 4VES, I killed Henry Saxon, I but I was mad with love i und I did not even kno who he Mas." 1 This wan the confession made ! In tra county jail today by Hyrum Hateman, 29 yri of age, a farmer of Murray. according to deputy sheriffs. Bateman was arrested by Deputy Joseph Turrvbow near hla home on Second West street In Murray Mur-ray thia morning after a search lasting- since. 2 o'clock Sunday morning. .Jealousy prompted Ilateman to attack at-tack hla rival for the affections of l.ydia tchelkcr, scarcely IS years of .age, according to his confession, say 'the officers, and tha story told by the girl. "I went with Miss Rchefker for about three years," Bateman Is re- ported to- have said today.. "While we wero not formally-engaged, still- she had virtually promised to marry me. Suddenly aha 'broke off with me. and I did not know why. BROODED OVER IT. "I brooded over the affair a good deal and finally I decided to try and make up' with her again. Hh would not go with me. and I said, 'Well, you will never go with another fellow; I will see to that. At that time I did not know that anyone had com between be-tween - ua. "Saturday I met her In Murray, and I asked If I could not call on her that night. She aaid she waa going to the home of an aunt near Big t'ottonwood. That night I called up her home and asked If she had returned. Her parents par-ents Informed me she had not. and they stated that she would have to walk home. If she came that night. She had told me that she would not go with any other man. and I thought ' we could be sweethearts once more. WENT IN AUTOMOBILE. "I decided to go after her In my automobile. I drove towsrd the csn-yon csn-yon and met Miss Schelker on the Ik road, accompanied by young man. IN I drove on past and then determined ' to see what he looked like.. I drove back and waited his spproach. I got out of the machine, end as ho came up I grew mad with rage. I made a r fh at him and he drew back and struck me a h'avy blow in the right eye. "In the mean tin-a he had removed bis coat. I went at him again and be struck me over the jaw Just aa I hit him In the same place. Then he caught hold of my coat, wrapping both lapels about his hand.. 'I will tench von to interfere, curse you, he sa:d with his face close to mine. SLASHED IN ARMS. "I fought desperately to get free. I felt that I was losing the fight. All I wanted was to get away. I reached for' my pocketknlfe. and managed to t pe n the blade. The bl ood from m y ye blinded my sight and It waa also finite dark In the (trove. I slashed at Ms arms desperately, hoping to break bis h"ld. I d:d not think that I had rut htm deeply. Still he hung on and I struck seain and aga n. RAN AWAY IN DARKNESS. I "finally he let go and I sprang free. I f.ung the knife far from me and ran blindly into the darkness. I did not know I had fatally Injured the man. I thought that perhaps It would be better if I siftyed out of sight for s w h le until the a f f air blew over. I kept ner the river back of my home I did not know that the man had died until last night. Then I was willing I to .e m st-lf up "I do not remember what Miss ttrhelkr did during the fight. I think r she asked me vhat I wss going to do when I csme towsrd Saxon. I know Continued on page S.) CONFESSION IS MADE (Continued from paga I . . that aha will tell the aame story I hare told If aha tella the truth." SEARCH FOR KNIFE. Haleman waa eacorted to the arena or tne rignt by deputlea of the eher-! Iff's office today and an attempt la to be made to find th knife with which the deed was done. "Fremedltated murder," Is the way Sheriff John 'orle described the deed today. Mlsa frtcheiker Is said to have Informed the officers yesterday that Hateman had tried to run Kaxon down with his automobile when he met him 1 In th road, near Knudson's grove. She I said that she stood paralysed with , fright when th encounter took place I as she remembered th threats mad by Bat ems n. j TAKEN TO AUNT'S HOME. When ah found Paon,had been -rioualy wounded ah helped him to th kitchen of her aunt's residence nearby and attempted to stop the flow of blood from his wounds. Saxon died a few hour later and not until then was th sheriff's office notified. A search was Instituted for th alleged murderer at one. Haxon lived In th neighborhood of Knudson's grov. He had only recently recent-ly arrived from Idsho and was about 2T years -of eg. Examination of th body Is said to hav proved that he died from loss of blood from a severed artery In his arm. 'If bore several other minor stab wounds. Bateman appeared to hav received sex era 1 blows and his -left eye waa cloeed and swollen todsy. Ud told hi story calmly. calm-ly. He said that h and his brother cultivated a small beet farm and that hi widowed mot her reetded wlia them in Murrajr. |