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Show !ot. Lkstioru tells a graphic story of the (diooUiii;. He ?ays: "lioth were FinlandiTs and 1 -hould riy by ihe unatehen of Kngllsli I heard from them that they were HtrnnKers to one another. They were drinking tOKcther. Th. man who was shot seemed slightly under the Influence Influ-ence of liquor anil trle l to force Nieml into pulling flnjrera. Nieml wa also under the InilueDCe of liquor. The action ac-tion of his new acquaintance seemed . to enrage him. "Flnallv the mnn who was kIioi down rHlsed his hands to the cat col-lar col-lar of Nieml and s1hx1. him lie released re-leased his bold and. emtllng. Hft"l a mug of beer to his mouth. Nltml i seemed to be watching for his man to turn Then, with a iudden Jerk at 'his back pod et. he drew a reolver. ! placed it a-.ilnt the forehead of th sir.-ini'i-r and dlsehar-'d it " As th-- strang'-r ciiisiied io the floor ; the Finnish ass ifIu lea?-l our of tho , Milium and dn'hcd north on Commercial Commer-cial street. Patrolman .fVM.r t In. w li i I stool ;.t Secnd South and Comm-T j rial streets, started pursuit. MURDER IH SALT Uffi SAIDON Salt Lake. Oct. 2."-. In a drunken brawl at the Commercial bar, f.S C'oni-mercial C'oni-mercial street, at 11:4 o'clck labt ' night, an unidentified Flndlander, :!j years of age. was shot and Instantly killed by William Nleiiii. a felb-w-cnittitryinan. who was arrested two minutes later by Patrolman II. I. Me-Mnrtin, Me-Mnrtin, after a sh. rt chase, participated partici-pated in by deputy sheriffs. The provocation for the killing, says Nieml. was brought alout when tin-unidentified tin-unidentified man challenged him to tests of strength In trout of the bir in ihe shIooii where the tragedy occurred. oc-curred. Nieml claims thai ine stranger strang-er became abusive In bis native ton Hie and called him uuinent ionab'e name.s when he refund 'o wre-stle. John Hu nionsou, one of the pro- I prietors of the saloo'i, who was Oil shift, behind the bar. had Just serve 1 I a glass of beer to the man who was ! murdered when he was attracted by a shot and flash of a revolver. Th-1 I unknown man dropped the glass and ' fell to the floor. The bullet had penetrated pen-etrated his skull, entering in the fore- 1 head immediately alive the b it eye. ' Axel Exsfrom. 22'. East Second , South street, and Hugo Johnson. '.! j Commercial street were within sl feet of Nieml when be fired the fatal |