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Show SHOOTS JAPANESE; rtj SMILES AT ARREST iKjj Salt Lake, Feb 5. A Quarrel, said to have started over a gambling debt . fv. of $G0, culminated in a Japanese pool ... J hall at the corner of First South and Fourth West streets lat night, when T. Najshi, a lapanese, opened fire on G Nakahara another Jap. with an automatic pistol, and succeeded in hitting him four times before N'aka-hara N'aka-hara could get out of range. The . , wounded man is in St. Mark's hospi tal, while the man who operated the gun is in the cit jail booked upon an , open charge. Of the four bullets that struck the man fired upon, one entered the right side of his chest, penetrating the lung one penetrated the back near the right kidney, the third was In tho left upper 'arm and the fourth in the left hand. Dashing out of the door, the wounded man ran about a hundred hun-dred paces north along the railroad track on Fourth West street, and fell. He was taken to the emergency hospital hos-pital at police headquarters and attended at-tended by Dr H. B Sprague. who later had him removed to St. Mark's hospital. Nayshi was arrested by Sergeant Tom Simpson and Patrolmen II A Olssen and A. C Hnshands He show . ea not the slightest agitation, and smiled pleasantly when givinc his name to the desk sergeant at police headquarters Three cartridge shells were picked up in the pool hall b Patrolman Olsen and found to fit the automatic pistol with which the shooting shoot-ing is said to hae been clone Two bullets were found tn hae penetrated penetrat-ed the wall of the room After his arrest last night. Nayshi said that Vakahara had repeatedly threatened his life, and that he fired upon Nakahara because he thought the latter had entered the pool hall with the intention of killing him. Friends of the prisoner called upon Attorney S A Kmc last night with a view to retaining him, and Mr. King visited Naysh In his cell Xayshi came recently from Bingham, Bing-ham, and it Is said intended to go to Helper this morning to find work Though damzero'isly wounded, it was thought last night that Nakahara had a chance to recover. |