Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 13 | Rooming House Shooting Ends Knife Attack

ROOBIOUSEi SHOOTING ENDS KNIFEJTTAGK Police Find Victim's Gun on Stairs Near Where He Fell as Bullet Ended His Flight James Morris. IT, Is In the city jail pending Issuance of a murder complaint against him by the county coun-ty allorney,' V. H. Hickman, it, la dead, and Pearl, alia Mae Hickman, Hick-man, his wife, and Badle Pambrum. 11. are held aa material witnesses In a shooting affray that occurred Thureday at :! p. m. In a rooming room-ing house at 0 Weet Second South street. The ehootlng came aa I he enimlnatlon of a quarrel between lilrkman and his wife. Tbe murdered man had vlalted the rooming house several tlmss duiina the day. according to police Inveetlgailon made after the murder. mur-der. In arch of Mr. Hickman. Each time it le aald the wi(e ran Into a room and told Mrs. K. C. Jamee, proertetreea, and atom te tell Hickman that aha waa out Hickman had been etavtng at a rooming house oa West Mouth Tarn-pie Tarn-pie etreet. TVhea Hlckmsa returned to the Jamee pla at l o'clock he I allseed tO'Tiava threatened tna pro-prletree. pro-prletree. with lb four-Inch blade of a porketknlfa. Morrle went to hia room and obfa'ned the revolver and when Hlrkenan started up the stairs flourl.hlr, the knife at Morris Mor-ris the latter fire-t. A bullet en-trred en-trred Hlrkman'a head and he la thought to bsvs dlsd Instantly on tha aerond landing of the atalrs. where police found the body. The knife was picked up an the first step below the landing. Morris fled from the house by wey of the Fourth West entrance and waa picked up at Flrat South and West Temple atreeta an hour later by city drtectlvea Taken to the police station, the man admitted he did the ehootlng and declared It waa In aelf-defense.