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Show QUARREL HAS FATALENDING Edward A. Mayer Is Shot by Los Angeles Man in Salt Lake Hotel SALT LAKE, Sept. 3. As the result re-sult of an alleged quarrel, E. C Rice, i 4 7, of Los Angeles, late yesterday aft- ernoon shot and killed Edward A. Mayer In a room In the Roy hotel, 1M9 1-2 South StdtS street. The shoot-ling shoot-ling took place about " o'clock, and Immediately afterward Rice requested the landlady of the hotel to notify the police that there was trouble in the i boiler j Rice then sal down In the hotel lob-! lob-! by and awaited the arrival of the po-I po-I lice officers, ami told M E. MeGlnWlS I of the detective force, who was the I first to reach th scene, that he had j killed a man in the hotel room Oth-; Oth-; er officers arrived shortly afterward, land found the body of Miivrr. at j whose side lay an automatic pistol I with an open safety eatcb and a knife ! Death had apparently resulted in-jstantly. in-jstantly. The bullet entered the face ' below the right eye and had penetrated pene-trated the skull. The body lay in a pool of blood. The shooting, which occurred In a room occupied by A YV. Watson, wa.-i the culmination, according to the story told by Rice, of a quarrel which had ensued earlier in the day and In whkh Rice had been struck by an artificial arm belonging to Mi'er, who had hut one natural arm. The police are now investigating the shooting further. I Ql ITTED. LOS ANGELES Sept. 3 E. C. Rice, held In Salt Lake for murder, is a retired mining man who figured In a sensational shooting affair at Venice on Ssptembcr 30. 1917. He shot at one waiter whom He accused of flirting with his wife and killed John Wlndlow, another waiter. Tir same bullet entered Mrs Rice's breast- Rico was acquitted of the murder. |