| Show KILLS hseng the victim attacks his ilis slayer while almost insane from drink and jealousy midnight tragedy in salt lake city the result of a cifes indiscretion men fought in presence of woman and her children salt lake city john mathews 33 years vears of age an employed of the salt lake waterworks department was shot to seath death at midnight on sunday by frank womack an employed of the oregon short line freight depot who roomed at mathews home west first north street jealousy over mrs elizabeth mathews wife of the dead man caused the tragedy for months mathews bad had been BUS licious ot ci bis his wife and manifested the bittera bitterest st hatred toward nanom womack ack mathews had accused womack of pay ing attentions to mrs mathews on numerous occasions he ordered wo mack to leave the place but mrs mathews insisted upon renting a ro room DID to womack sunday night mathews came home and quarreled with his wife aft alter er which he went to womack s room and called him out womack slipped on his trousers and coat and followed d mathews into the dining room they talked in loud tones tor for a minute or two mathews grabbed womack by the throat and womack attempted to tree free himself h I 1 in S elf from mathews grasp lie succeeded and attempted to bolt from the room mathews struck him down with a blow on the side of the head he jumped onto womack and beat him to the floor womack p pulled a gun from his inside coat pocket and fired from where he lie lay jay three E shots h ohe entered mathews body just below belo t the heart he staggered backwards and fell into his wife s bed room dead mrs mathews jumped from her bed and fell in a swoon her two chil dren 8 and 6 years of age were sleep eg ig with her and both saw sam their father tall fall dead womack immediately notified the police and gave himself up he ile de nies ries that mathews had any cause for jealousy mrs mathews is prostrated |
