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Show MOUS WAN Salt Lake, Jan, 13. In a fit of Jealousy, Jeal-ousy, caused, as she alleges, 'by tho fact that there was another woman in the case, Mrs. Lillie Rogors, 315 South Seventh East street, Thursday afternoon after-noon shot and seriously wounded Bruce O. Tingley, a motorman, who had lodged at her residence for about a year. Mrs. Rogers Is in tho city jail. Ting-ley Ting-ley lies In St. 'Mark's hospital, where ho will be operated upon today for the removal of the bullet. Aside from the woman and the man she shot, there wero no witnesses to i the shooting. A neighbor who heard ' the report of tho gun and eaw the wounded man stagger out of the rcsar door tolephoned a hurry call to tlfN ' police station nnd Tingley and the woman wore rushed to tho city Jail. '1 ingley was placed in the emergency hospital for first aid treatment toy Dr. II B. Sprague and then taken to St. Mark's. "Will you tell rac why you shot him''" said a Tribune reporter to Mrs. Rogers as she sat in the quarters reserved re-served for the women prisoners. "Not until I have first seen hlra," came tho slow roply. Asked if she loved Tingley, she ' sari: "I won't see anyone, or talk) at all." Then she turnod away and refused to answer any more questions. Shortly after -Mrs. Rogers "wns placed under arrest she made a statement state-ment to Chief of Police Barlow which Indicates that jealousy of another woman and tho belief that Tingley was about to leave her homo prompted tho shooting. Mrs. Rogers told the chief that their relations had been amicable up to a few weeks ago, when they had had several quarrels which had been adjusted. About a week ago came a more violent quarrel about a ring and pin which, she says, Tingloy had given her and then stolen from her. This was precipitated by her finding among her lodger's effects the picture of a young woman wearing a ring and pin which she thought she could identify as hers. Finds Woman In Theater. But pence was restored, and on Tuesday night, Mrs. Rogers says, she went with Tingley to a theater. Here she saw the young woman who wns the original of tho picture she had found in Tlngley's possession. Tho young woman, declared Mrs. Rogers, was wearing the ring and pin that Tingley had taken from her. Walking over to the young woman Mrs. Rogers demanded to know where she had procured the jowels, and was told that Bruce Tingley had given them to her. She says she demanded the return re-turn of her property, threatened to call an officer and forced the young woman to give up the Jewels. From that time until tho time of the Bhoot-ing Bhoot-ing Mrs. Rogers and Tingley quarreled. it was a few minutes after 2 o'clock In the afternoon whon the woman fired the shot from her .38-I .38-I caliber hammerless revolver Into I Tlngley's back. He had packed his I suit case and threatened to leave. She , , made no direct, coherent statement i as to what transpired Just prior to hor firing the shoL The ball struck Tingley In the back, a few inches below be-low the neck, ranged upward, and ' lodged in tho fleshy part of the neck. Tingley staggered out of the rear I door, walked across to a neighbor's porch and sat down, saying nothing. Mrs. Rogers becamo hysterical, i Police Are Summoned. ' In response to the alarm, Patrolmen Frantz and Crowther were hurried to the scene with the ambulance driven by Chauffeur Griffin. Tingley said only a few words, the purport of which was that while tho woman shot him, ho wanted her looked after flraL On tho way to the station and after reaching it tho woman went Into one fainting spoil after another, and was either unconscious or hysterical for an hour. Then she partly recovered her composure, and made her statement state-ment to Chief Barlow. Mrs. Rogers has been twice divorced, di-vorced, once from James Placla, also known as Jim Sullivan, proprietor of an Italian 6aloon on West Temple streel, and once from Richard Rocers. ! Two sons, aged 12 and II, of whom j Placla is the fathor, have resided with their mother, she being tho owner J of the place where tlie shooting oc curred Sho Is nbout 3G years of ago. Tingley has been In tho employ of the Utah Light and Railway company as extra motorman blnce May 10 of last year. His application shows that bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orange Tingley. reside at 523 North Sixth street, Wichita, Kan. Tingley Is 27 years of ago. Ills record with the ( street railroad company la a clean one In every respect. |