Show A SCANDAL AND GUN PLAY over the cause of a young girls ruin W D capes sought bevency on hirry E Roar ers the alleged seducer of his cousin there is now lying tn a bed t twenty second street a young handsome but unfortunate firl in a precarious condition and by her tide ia a tiny babe which was born to her about 5 yesterday afternoon As a result 0 this condition ol 01 affairs there occurred a little fracia ou lower twenty fifth street last evening which brought to light many things that are bad in the ayea ot all virtuous people it out the tact that this mother is not nor has never been married which makes the cafe one that comes before the public the name ot the mother Is miss francis twenty two years old her mother it f aid is dead and her father is a drunkard and lives in salt lake her only other relatives are william D capes a cousin and her grandmother I 1 with whom he has been livine f mr capes supporting her on the I 1 salary he earned as car repairer at the southern pacific shops nights last winter the girl went out with a theatrical company which was organized in this city and played at country towns in the territory in the spring the company disbanded here and since then she has lived at her homo during the ummer i it is said that she received letters from and was much annoyed by an old man who wa in the theatrical company it is eaid he came to see her beveral times but her grandmother Brand mother sent him away finally ft is said that he annoyed her so that she had the police call him down it that her relatives knew nothing 0 titi the condition which frances was in preceding the birth of the child was questioned by her grandmother mother and cousin and the gill to cover up the thame as long as possible remained reticent and said it was dropsy tor which she was doctored and it a aid she did net until the last moment yesterday tay what was the canaii of her predicament mr capes bays that when he afkend her who was the cause of her ruin she replied copers Ko pers chos demanded the enraged cousin rogers the shoemaker on twenty I 1 fifth threet said she in a taint voice then was asked to tell all about it and did so she said rogers was o 0 nt lu lost spring when he went to see lim in a room on washington avenue to collect some money he owed her and to find out it the company was cm the road again hue eaid he gave her some candy while she waa talking with him that this drued her immediately and ele did not know any more until after her rum had been accomplished from hi oun statement capes after listening to the firle lory was filled with rase and out to get revenge rev euge he equipped himself with a colte revolver and went to harry E bogere shoe chop on the corner of lincoln avenue and twenty fifth street arriving there at about cadee ays that when he went into the shop boaters wag out and a boy who was there told him that the would return in a minute capes waited only a time until in came the man or whom he wag looking are you rogers me about the birtt words passed and cadee after briefly explaining what he was there for drew hia gun and aimed it t ropers campea at this bogers crabbed it and he did it went off between dingere and close to hia body tussle followed and robere succeeded in botting the pun the latter then said he was innocent of the charge and it campea would go etith him to the police elation be would it they then agreed to leave the run in the shop and to the police station upon arriving there capes himself up to arrest ait oit the charge of assault and after bonio talk with the officers over the shooting bogers returned to his shop but detective fender was soon on his tal and guarded him all night capes was allowed to go on hie own recognizance this morning bolt parties appeared it the police station and two complaints were made out one charging capes with assault with a deadly weapon and the other against rogers charging him with fornication preliminary hearing was v aided in the latter caso by rogers bounel and he was bound over to the grand jury with bonds fixed at capes case was set tor next monday at 10 9 capes is a young roan with a good reputation he is said to be steady and honest ie says he did not go to intending to kill but only with alie intention of beating him up if ble lie cays be never baw the man before ue believes hi cousin to have always been innocent and has never heard anything against her loers is probably 45 or 50 year old and is unmarried it is eaid that he has served a term in jail for adultery or rape which he is said to have committed in a shop in this city a few years ago on two young girls it is eleo aid that be is an admirer of mrs dan who has been beveral times in the police court to troubles with her husband rogers denies the charge and bays they cant convict bini lie bays he knows that frances has been bad for over a year past and that she was tough while travelling tra velling with the theatrical company thin is denied by the girls frienda fri endi |