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Show I : BINGHAM SCHOOL I PRINCIPAL SLAYS 1 - HOMEWRECKER HiH i H ,i Arthur Wlllani Shoots Cecil Holme H In Street of Mining Camp; Victim H Ilc ,ln a Few Hour Afterward. B WOMAN CAUSE OP H TRAGEDY 18 REPORT PH Friendship Which Developed Into PB Moro Tluvn Plntonlc Attachment PH Ulnnteil for Homicide by ICdurntor. H Arthur Wlllard, principal of Blng- PH ham ochoolB and a practicing attor- PH ney, fnttnlly shot Cecil Holmes, a PH former friend nnd student, during n PB street fight in Blnghnm yesterday PB thnt was tho climax of an eternal PBJ triangle lovo tragedy In which Wll- PH lard declares HolmcR wrecked his BftBI home. BIB , Holmes died at fi p. m. In Dr. BBfl ' Flynn's hospital In Bingham, whero BBS J ho was taken following tho shooting. Wlllard was rushed to tho county jail in Salt Lako and Is held ponding PBBJ formal chnrges nnd arrulgnment. PBH "I am sorry for the deed, but I PBBJ ' feel I wsh Justified In doing it," was BBS tho only statement Wlllard would PBBJ make when seen at the county jail PBH last night, after being closeted for PBB( two hours with his attorney, Judgo PBBs D. N Straup, who refused to offer PBBJ further Information, nnd stated his PBBT client would have nothing moro to BBS Fay Rt present. PBl All Worn Good Frlt'tuK PBBf Investigation disclosed that Will- BBM nrd, Holmes nnd Holmes' sister, Miss BBM Will Holmes, who nlso Is n teacher BBS In Illnghnm, wero old friends. About ( two years ago. It was learned, Will- BBSj nrd, who had become well known In 1 educational circles, both ns a tinl- BBSi veralty student nnd nn Instructor nt BBS Henngor's Iluslness college In Salt PBBJi Lake, met Holmes In Idaho, tho vlc- BBB tint of ndverso circumstances, nnd BBS offered to assist htm, Inter procuring JBBJ him employment In tho Illnghnm BBS High school, where ho won favor ns , nn athleto and coach of tho basket- PBBJ ball PBBJ Wlllnrd at that time was Hying In pBBBBBf Illnghnm with his wife, who was pBBj formerly Miss Elizabeth Kimball, daughter or J. Golden Kimball, 36 BBB East First North street, prominent BBB ' In tho Mormon church. ' Holmes, it BBB nppenrs, was invited to resldo nt tho BBS Willard homo. Miss Holmes also PBBBBBB joined tho Dlngham school staff. PBBBK The four, It Is said, were often scon BBB together nt social functions, nppar- BBB ently tho best of friends. PBBBw Warns Holmes to Go, BBB A sudden rupturo in this frlond- BBfl ship camo last fall, It U declared, BBB & when Willard, declaring that Holmes , BBB k had betrayed his kindness and B " friendship by forcing illicit ntton- BBB . tlons upon his wire, warned Holmes BBB to leave Illnghnm. Following PBBBBbS Holmes' departure, Wlllard nnd his pBBBBBs wlfo separated. At tho homo of her PBBl father last night, mumbers of tho pBBl family declined to stato whore Mrs. BBB Wlllard Is living nnd refused to niako pBBl any stntoment. pBBl Slnco tho school semester in Blng- pBBJ ham closed, Wlllard has been prac- PBBa tlclng law with Judgo, E, E. Dudley,, With offices In Carr Fork. While the shattered romance was the subject or much gossip In Blng-am Blng-am and circles where the principals wero known. It had gradually waned Until yesterday, when Holmes suddenly sud-denly reappeared ns nn Insurance ngent. Holmes walked Into tho barber shop of Louis Bardes, Just below tho Illnghnm postofflco, nt 3 p. m. While he was In the chair Willard chanced to pass the shop, looked In and saw him. Two Engage In Fight. Wlllnrd, nccordlng to eyewitnesses, hesitated a moment with flushed face, then hurried into the shop. As he npprooched, It Is declared. Holmes quickly rose from tho chnlr and bc-foro bc-foro others In tho place could sense whnt was happening engaged in n fight that ended on the sidewalk out-sldo out-sldo tho shop, when they wero separated separ-ated by Jnck Dean nnd others. Thj two men fell through n window while thoy wero righting. Dcnn has a barber bar-ber shop closo to the scene or the conflict. As tho men wero forced apart, it Is said, Wlllard again wnrned Holmes to get out of town. Holmes returned to his chair In tho barbcrship, whilo Wlllnrd went with Dcnn to tho lnt-ter's lnt-ter's barber shop nearby. According to Dean, Wlllard. after talking of tho nffnlr, hurried from tho place saying ho was going to got a gun. Wlllnrd then went to his office, It Is declared, while Dean Informed In-formed Deputy Sheriff V. B. Jones that Willard had gono for n revolver nnd thnt ho feared serious trouble. Shortly following this warning to tho sheriff, Wlllnrd, It is said, reappeared, re-appeared, with Deputy Sheriff Jones hurrying after him nbout a block behind. be-hind. i Starts to Fight Again. Holmes was still in the Bnrdes shop. Wlllard, according to tho eyewitnesses, eye-witnesses, dashed in and tho two men ngnln engnged' In a fist fight that brought them to the rond outside tho shop, with Bnrdes and the deputy depu-ty sheriff doing their utmost to dls-entnngle dls-entnngle them nnd end the Btruggle. Amid this moleo, according to witnesses, wit-nesses, Wlllnrd drew his revolver nnd shot Holmes through tho abdomen. abdo-men. It is declared Wlllard then started down the canyon, but stopped stop-ped and surrendered himself to tho deputy sheriff's command. He was spirited by Deputy Sherirr Jones nnd other officers to tho county Jail In Salt Lako. Holmes, unconscious, was removed hurriedly to Dr. Flynn's hospital, where Dr. Flynn nnd Dr. P. S. Hage-man Hage-man probed tho wound and operated in nn effort to save his life. Later Holmes regained consciousness, but was unable to make a statement. He died at C:30 p. m without giving hla version of tho tragedy. Doth Well Known Men. Doth Wlllnrd nnd Holmes' were well known in Dlngham, Wlllard is 28 years old. Holmes was 22. Holmes and his sister, it is said, were orphaned In Kentucky, where Will- ard knew thorn. Holmes was a' great favorite with nthletee and especially with the basketball players of the high school. Wlllard is n graduate or tho University Uni-versity or Utnh law school, class or 1916. Ho has been principal or Dlngham schools for a 'year. It Is said by friends that ho met Elizabeth Eliza-beth Kimball whllo sho was a high school student In Salt Lake, and that their romanco quickly flowered Into marriage, tho ceremony being nn event of promlnenco nmong tho younger college set. |