Show HEMP r T U former citizen here Is acci dentally shot OLD STORY OF PLAYING WITH LOADED REVOLVER As the advocate goes to press i his this thursday afternoon a telephone message states that hemp haf has an even chance of ety playfully grabbing a revolver ic which was held in the hand of jim riley mey a bartender at the eagle gate saloon on commercial street at salt lab lake city last tuesday morning J S 3 N hemphil Hem Ilem phel better known as jake was shot through the left breast he is now at a hospital in a precarious condition and in all ability will not survive the wound is believed to be fatal the man who held the gun james riley a athow named miller and E J phelps an alleged bad man are being neld by the police pending a thorough investigation into the affair the wounded nun man the th bart bartender Prider phelps miller and other eye witnesses to the affair declare the shooting was accidental ate aber the hooting hemp hemphil was taken to the emergency hospital the tatter found that the bullet had truck hemphil in the right breast rd ud went through the body penetrating the lung ung liver and going through onu one of the large intestines the latter wound is regarded as a fatal one the victim of the accident for 1 I about three months has been a night iv watchman atchman on east south temple street tuesday morning he wt to the 13 cagle gle gate saloon and drin drinking hing moderately with somo friends he was standing at the bar when nhen phelps walked up leaned over the bar and jokingly k le seized I 1 Z ed riley the bartender and tried to tc take a plug of tobacco from him riley according to the story of eye witnesses picked up a revolver lying on the mixing board and level ed d it at phelps hemphil then laughingly leaned over the bar and seized the revolver he gave it a jerk and pulled the weapon ton to ard him the bartender had his finger on the trigger and the next instant there was wag a loud report and hem phel reeled backwards staggered dolan a the room for a dis distance alce of about abolt twenty feet and fell mortally wounded HP ile aaa as quickly picked up bild the polite department notified the man vas was hurried to the emergency hos pita where he received every attention teri tion possible under the circumstances at first he was reluctant to speak about the affair lohn john hemphell begged I T is brother to give him an account c 0 t the affair lind the wounded man asked that the e room be cleared he ile then stated cimpl iab to the lieutenant that the hooting was entirely accidental and would aay say no more an ambulance vas called and nd Ilem hemphil phel was taken to fo st marks at last lepor reports ts his con n ua umi moat most belious II 11 G wigert a barber who has a bop shop in front of the saloon where fhe the El shooting looting occurred said 1 a I was standing at the tile bar with ith jake when i delps walked up and we all began joking with each other and the bar tender ader riley phelps leaned over the bar and grabbed hold of riley and id the latter drew the gun in a joking way ay then hemphil seized the gun and I 1 stepped nide aside just as the shot was fired it was purely an accident and we e all felt terribly over it the same story as told by other byc f ye witnesses Nit nesses and their statements are corroborated 1 by y the wounded man hemphil has been in salt lake city about four years he is is married but his wife and three children are le ie siding at alma wyo he ile married a daughter of james bowns until recently a resident of castle gate and inspector of mined u for the utah fuel company hemp hel previous to going to salt lake city resided a sunnyside Sunny side and castle gate and is well known to all of the old dimeis of carbon county he is i about 32 years of age |