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Show JAP TiNS GUN I ONJIKLF HHJ Saturday night, at about 10 o'clock, HHJ a Japenese, Tom Washlmi, killed HHJ himself, after attempting to kill a HHJ girl of the underworld In Electric HHJ alloy. The woman he tried to kill Is HHJ Nellie Cohn, with whom Tom, It is HHJ said,' has consorted for some time HHJ past. Tho Jap shot himself through HHJ the chest with a 3S-caliber revolver. HHJ He died instantly. The affair created HHJ considerable excitement In the alley HHJ and within ten minutes a;fter tho HHJ shooting, fully 100 Jeps gathered. HHJ They had ' to be dispersed by the HHJ police. HHJ The woman In question. It is' al- HHJ leged by the police, has been con- H) sorting with "Washlm! for over a Htl month, and that sho has been hi HHJ trouble several times with federal HHJ immigration officers. They gave her HHJ a bad reputation and as sho is alien HHJ born, It is possible that she will be Hk brought to the notice of the federal HHJ government for deportation. HHJ Eyewitnesses to tho tragedy claim HHJ they saw the woman run screaming HHJ Into the alley, where licr apartment HHJ was, and that they saw the Jap HHJ fire three times at hor but miss. HHJ She ran Into the room of another ln- HHJ mate of the stockade and tho Jap HHJ returned to hers and closing the Bt door, two shots were heard. "When HHJ the door was opened Washlmi was HHJj found in a dying condition, nnd be- HHJ' fore the police or medical attention HHJ could be gotten, passed1 away. HHJ Woman's Statement. H "I knew tho Jap, but I never lived B with him. He used to come- to sec B niG and never spent over $6 with mo B for liquid refreshments About a fl week ago I heard some one say thai B he intended to kill mo, and while I fl "-was not afraid, I took good care to H watch him close. HHJ "Saturday nlghl ho came to my ' room," and after locking tho door, playfully, as I thought at flrfit, jmu his bolt around my neck, Tho bolt began to choke mo and I struggled - with him. Then tho thought enmo to my mind1 that he was perhaps trying to get 1 1 ' gold ten dollar pleco which I wear on a chain as a necklace I trood myself and getting- tho key opened the door and rushed ont Into the alley Just as 1 got out he began tn shoot at me. I ran Into another place and from thero I enmo here. "Is he dead? Well, I'm glad. Ho will not harm me any more I only knew him slightly and I absolutely deny (lint ho was my lover." Taxed by the detectives that such was the case and that they had evidence evi-dence to provo their assertions, tho woman indignantly denied their statement and brazenly defied them-to them-to provo it. Washlmi was about 25 years old and had been for sometime employed as pantry boy at a local hotel. Ho quit his Job Saturday evening about 8 o'clock, giving no reason. It appears that he went direct from thero to his room, change'd his clothes and taking tak-ing his revolver started out to commit com-mit niurdor nnd sulcldo. His bad aim only saved him from becoming n murderer and seeing thai he was foiled in his attempt, killed himself. Detective Pcndor, Chambers, Burk and Captain of Pollco Brown, togeth-or togeth-or with Sheriff Harrison, went to tho scene of tho tragedy and made all the investigations. A Japanese, of Emaslan type, was ordered to leave the vicinity of the stockade under penalty of going to jail. Ho lost no time in going. oo |