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Show In a Twenty-fifth street sliooting gal- lory as a phonograph grouvd out the' I doleful strains of a sentimental song I vhlch he claimed was a favorite with his wife, Bert Bates, a resident of Salt Lake City, placed the muzzle of a rifle to Ills temple and fired a bullet bul-let into his brain. The shooting occurred oc-curred about o o'clock last evening and death resulted at the Dee -Memor- j lal hospital an hour and a hulf later. Batea did not regain consciousness after the shooting and therefore , made no statement regarding his motive mo-tive for wfshing to end his life, but it Is the belief of the police that de-spondency de-spondency resulting from his failure to secure work led to the act. The ' officers claim that he was not lntox-icatod lntox-icatod at the time. Letters found In the pockets of the clothes wont by Bates indicate that he came to this city to secure work and in fact was employed by the Utah Construction company for some time, but for the past several days he was without employ men L These letters also show that he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bates, residing resid-ing at 9? West South Temple street. Salt Lake, and the father was notl- j fled at once. Made Three Trips to Gallery. l The shooting gallery In which Bates fired the fatal shot Is located j at 164 Twenty-fifth street and was but recently opened toy William Schef- j fer. The proprietor was not presen' j at the time of the shooting, the place ' being In charge of a young ladj Miss. Lily DeVlne. According to Miss DoVino's story, Betes first appeared at the shooting gallery about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. aft-ernoon. At that time Schoffer was present. Bates appeared to be exam- ining a rifle, pulling the trigger and looking into the barrel, but the weap-1 on was not loaded. The proprietor, fearing that the prospective custom-' er would accidentally discharge one of the other -weapons, told Bates to put down the rifle, asking him If he wanted to shoot somebody around there. Bates replied that If he shot anybody It would be himself. The Salt Lake man returned to the same place about a half hour later and when Schcffer asked him if be was going to shoot at the targets, Bates replied: "No, not while you are j here." Returns Third Time. It was .shortly after 5 o'clock when Bates returned to the shooting gallery gal-lery for the third time. Miss DoVIne was alone In the place at this time-A time-A phonograph had just completed the rendition of a popular sentimental love song when Bates entered and it is supposed that he had stood outside out-side listening to the piece. He asked Miss' DeVlne to play the record over again, stating that the song was a favorite with his wife, who was dowri in Salt Lake and that she had often sang it for him. The young woman complied with the r'equost and after Bates had Hs-j Hs-j toned to the first verse ho said ho had a nickel and vould take a couple of shots at the targets. Picking up a rifle, he appeared to examine It, but suddenly placed the muzzle against his right temple and pulled the trigger. trig-ger. He fell to the floor unconscious and. a hurry-up call was telephoned j to. police headquarters. j The injured man was removed to I the' city Jail in the patrol wngon and I a physician summoned. It was found that "the bullet, a 22 calibre, had penetrated pen-etrated the skull almost in the center cen-ter of the temple and passed along near the front of the skull, penetrating penetrat-ing the brain. It was not possible to remove the Bullet and Bates was taken to the Dee hospital, where he succumbed at 7:30 o'clock. The remains re-mains were removed to Lindqulst's undertaking rooms. Letters From His Mother. There were two letters found In the young man's pockets. One was from his mother, and the other apparently ap-parently from his sweetheart. Mar-1 Mar-1 garet Stanley, who also resides In i Salt Lake. Both were written on August Au-gust 15 and had been mailed in the same envelope, each letter referring to the other. In her letter the mother expressed her satisfaction at the knowledge that her son had secured employment, employ-ment, but was surprised 'to learn ttyit he was not working with the outfit with which he. had Intended to when he came to Ogden. She asked him to let drink alone and prove to his friends that he was a man. The letter from Miss Stanley was along the same lines and contained phrases which Indicated that the young woman was in love with Bates. The evidence which leadB the police to believe that Bates had been employed em-ployed by tho Utah Construction company was a receipt from the hospital hos-pital department maintained by that corporation There was no letter or note which would in any way explain remove the bullet and Bates was apparently about 26 years of age. Letter From His Mother. He registered at the Ogden houso on Thursday under the name of Frank James and slept there that j night. Other than this his movements move-ments are not known. It Is claimed by Scheffer. the proprietor or the shooting gallery, and the clerk at the Ogden house that two brothers of Bates were with him yesterday. Neither Nei-ther of the supposed relatives appeared appear-ed at police headquarters last evening. even-ing. In a telephone message from the Salt Lake police late last night It was learned that Bates was only an adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bates, residing at tho address given above. The foster father stated that' he -would communicate with the local authorities regarding the disposition of tho body. |