Show POLICE OFFICER IS 18 FATALLY WOUNDED salt lake dec 8 S playfully grabbing a 38 caliber revolver which wai held beld in the hands of jim riley a bartender at tho the eagle gate saloon 23 commercial street at this morning J S N hempel better known as jake was shot through the lett breast lie ho Is now at st marks hospital in a precarious condition and in all probability will not survive the wound around is believed by dr samuel G paul to bo be fatal the man who hold held the gun james riley a man named miller and E J phelps an alleged bad man are being held by the police pending a thorough investigation into the affair the wounded man the bartender phelps miller and other eyewitnesses eye witnesses affair declare the shooting ww was accidental immediately after the shooting tempel hempel was waa taken to the emergency hospital and dr paul sum boned the latter found that the bullet had struck hempel in the right breast and went through the body penetrating the lung hing liver and going through one of the large intestines the latter wound Is regarded as a fatal one the victim of the accident Is a brother of of police john hempel and for about three months has been a night watchman on east south temple street this morning he went to the eagle gate saloon and was drinking moderately with somo some ti fi lends ile he was standing at the bar when phelps the alleged bad man walked up leaned over the bar and jokingly seized riley the bartender and tried to tako take a plug of tobacco from him riley according to the story of eyewitnesses picked up a revolver lying on the mixing board and leveled it at phelps hempel then laughingly leaned over the bar and seized the revolver ho he gave it a jerk and pulled the weapon toward him the bartender had hla hig finger flieger on the trigger and the next instant there was a loud report and hempel reeled backwards staggered down the room for a distance of about twenty feet and fell mortally wo wounded I ito ho to was quickly picked up and tho the police department notified the man was hurried to the emergency hospital where he received every attention possible under the circumstances at first he was reluctant to speak a word about the affair hempel begged his brother to give him an account of the affair and the wounded man asked that the room be cleared he then stated simply to the lieuten ant that the shooting was entirely ao ac cIrl cl dental and would say no more an ambulance was called an and hempel wa was taken to st marks arks hospital at lae reports his condition was waa most so rious R G wigert ft a barber who has i I 1 shop eliop in front of the saloon where the shooting occurred said 1 I was standing at the bar with jake when phelps walked up and we all began joking with will ea cli ch other and an the bartender riley phelps loaned leaned over the bar and grabbed hold of riley and the latter drew tho the gun in a t joking way then compel seized tho the gun and I 1 stepped aside just as the sha shot was fired it was wag purely an acal accident and wo all felt terribly over the affair F S bramwell Bram of la graude oregon Is in ogden |