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Show ML Pleasant Has Wild West Scene The peace and quietude of Mt. Pleasant was rent asunder last Friday Fri-day afternoon when a shooting fray was staged on one of the main streets. The Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, in giving a report of the shooting, has the following comment: Julius Hovinghoff, 50, of this city, walked over to a car parked by the Texaco service station this Friday at 2:30 p. m., an fired three shots from a ' .44 calibre pistol into the body of Henry Bohne, 56, of Fairview, who was in the automobile, and told him that he guessed that would keep him from breaking up any more homes. Charles Bills, who happened to! be near when the shooting took place, stepped, up to Hovinghoff and urged him not to shoot any more. Then Hovinghoff went up the street a short distance and told City Marshal Mar-shal W. K. Peterson that he had "just shot a man. Here's my gun; I'm ready for the gallows." j The marshal took the gun and placed Hovinghoff in the city jail. Dr. W. P. Winters was summoned and he found that Bohne had been hit three times. Bohne was shot in the ' chin, the left wrist was shattered and i one bullet pierced the body near the i left lung and lodged in the back near the right shoulder blade. Dr. Winters quickly extracted the bullet, dressed his wounds and took him to the hospital hos-pital at Provo. Sheriff Peterson was soon on the scene and the city marshal turned Hovinghoff over to the county officers offi-cers for keeping at the county jail. In an interview which Hovinghoff gave The Pyramid, he stated that he was married a year ago last December Decem-ber 27th to Alice Tounsend, whom he had provided a home for in this city since that time. Hovinghoff said he had been caring for sheep for Bitner ! Bros., and while he was away from home he said Bohne had been sporting sport-ing with his wife and accused him of cohabitating with her; also getting her intoxicated with liquor. All the while he was sending money home to his wife for support. He also accused ac-cused Bohne of breaking up his home and taking his wife away from Mt. Pleasant. Just prior to the departure of Mrs. Hovinghoff she forged a number of checks in Mt. Pleasant, according to the statement of Sheriff Peterson. |
