Show one man dead another in jail aa As the result of a shooting affray in is lacown as the old mint saloon building last friday evening walter johnson aged 19 is dead and buried in the local cemetery and clarence kelley aged 22 is in the county jail facing a charge of murder As near as can be learned johnson and kelley bad had been playing cards in rt room back of tho the harness shop in tho the building mentioned johnson and a blind man us ig the room as sleeping quarters about 10 the game ceased and johnson was preparing to retiro retire and kel ley was standing as if about to leave ho he pulled a 45 calibre revolver from his pocket and almost immediately the weapon was dis charged the bullet finter entering ilig johnsons body in the tho right groin and coming out through the spine tho the alarm alarin was given by inmates of tho tile building and sheriff kelter soon after took kelley in charge and locked him up although ho lie protested the tile shooting was accidental tho the wounded man was taken to the utah construction hospital where drs fisk goeltz end and cloward performed an operation in an endeavor to save tho the boys life they found tl at the intestines L had been but slightly injured but tho the spino spine was pierced and shattered the heavy bullet havin having passed through the spine and emerged from the back it 11 vas was at once appa ent that the boy could not live and he lie died about three saturday afternoon tho the body was buried tue tuesday day at county expense johnson having no known relatives rela johnson claimed from the fir firsthand first and swore on his deathbed that the shooting was intentional he had told several friends before the shooting that he and kelley had had trouble in grand junction where both resided before coining coming to price and thac tha bad feeling still existed between them the blind man nho iho was in the room when the tragedy occurred sas s he lie heard some charges of cheating but did not think the serious until he heard tho the report of the revolver kelley who is a son of F A kelley the proprietor of the golden bakery was arril arraigned gried before justice middleton monday night on a charge of murder in the first degree but the date for his hearing has not been set |