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Show latt fall, where Shoppard was em-1 ployed as a scenic painter. Mrs. Jones had been employed at the theater In the orchestra. Remonstrated With Wife. Jonea said that he remonstrated with his wife for seeing Sheppard and that 6hc had promised to stop seeing the man. He said that he was away from his home a great deal of the time on account of his work, and that he had trusted his wife Implicitly. She went to him on March 10 and told bim that Sheppard had sue.h a great Influence on her that she could not resist him, and that she had do-cldcd do-cldcd to leave her husband, an llfo without Sheppard was Intolerable. Jones told her to go to her mother's moth-er's home and think the matter over, which she did. he said. According to Jones, he had not lived with his wife since that time. In his cell he expressed ex-pressed the wish that he had just one shell left In tho gun so that he might have killed himself after shooting Sheppard. UNWRITTEN LAW IN ZION Salt T-ake, July ID. Jo.hn A. Jones, a postal clerk of the Oregon Short Line Railroad company, shot Arthur Sheppard. a scenic painter, iu tho lobby of the Wellington hotel. South Temple and Third West streets, after ' Sheppard. accompanied by Jones wife, had registered as Arthur Korsyibe and wife, this morning at 1:30 o'clock. Sheppard died a few minutes later in rront of the Third West ftrect entrance en-trance of tho hot,el out of which he had run when the shooting began. Jones was caught by H. T. Maker and "W. A. McKlnney. guests of the hotel, ho-tel, and arrested by former Patrolman Patrol-man George Harris. . Mrs. Jones was also taken to the police station In a hysterica! condition. Sheppard. accompanied by Mrs. Jones, had entered the hotel through the Thfrd West street entrance, and Sheppard had just finished signing the hotel regleter. He was standing near the doorway to 1 lie ante-room which opens on Third West street, and Mrs. Jones was standing lu front of the register. W. O. Adams, the night clerk, had just rung for a bellboy bell-boy to show the couple to their room when Jones entered the hfttel from tho South Temple street entrance. As he stepped around the elevator ho fired one shot at Sheppard. who was struck and who began to run toward the Third West street entrance. Ho was followed by Jones, who was using a .38 Colt's automatic revolver. Before Be-fore Sheppard could reach the street be had received four bullets in his body. As he reached the street ho threw mi both hands and fell on his back. He died a few minutes later. Snaps Gun in Wife'i Face. When the shooting began ' Mrs. Jones ran at the first shots, but when she discovered that Sheppard had been bit she turned on Jones and attempted at-tempted to wrench the revolver from his hand. Pushing her away from him, Jones snapped tho revolver, in her face, but he had used up all of the cartrldes. He then dashed out of the hotel and was captured The body of Sheppard was removed to the undertaking parlors of O'Don-nell O'Don-nell & Co. Two of the bullets had passed through the right arm between the elbow and the shoulder; one had passed ihrough the left arm between the olbow and wrist and the one which eaused death had entered the right f-lde. but had not passed through the body. Jones talked freely of the shooting in his cell at the city Jail. His First exclamation was to the effect that Sheppard had ruined his. home. Jones paid that he had ben married for .even years and that his wife hnd met Jo Sheppard at the Grand' theater |