Show KILLED alie crime committed lor the small sum ol 01 30 cents slight clues obtainer ei to the robbers blooml hounds may te put on the trail fcc yoni a chinese gardener was shot and instantly killed about last evening by two robbers who as a reward for their crime obtained the small sum of 30 cents gee yom with two companions lion wah and hop sing lived in a small shack on the south side of the ogden river about one half mile east of washington avenue and at the foot of the bluff which raises nearly perpendicular to the bench in the vicinity of the state school for the deaf they made their living by gardening and cultivated a small tract of alie river bottom which is surrounded by a dense undergrowth of brah gee yom was reputed to be wealthy and ic was known that he intended to leave for china yesterday and the day before he h said to have between 30 and 40 and it is supposed these facts became known to the robbers when the crime was committed the three were in the front room of their shack hong wah being seated on a chair and fcc yom reclining on a cot the two robbers entered the front door and were disguised with handkerchiefs over the faces through which sight holes had been cut the men as near as a description could be obtained from the frightened were both slight built and wore dark clothing and one biad on a dark small derby hat As the men entered hop sing slipped unnoticed into the rear room where lie remained until after the murder the kotlier two were ordered to hold up their hands by one of the robbers who covered them with a revolver and his companion began searching them gee yom as the robber started to search his pockets poc keta dropped his hands to his sides and almost simultaneously the other robber shot the ball entered tho right side just below the collar bone ana ranging downward pierced tho heart and found exit at the back about three inches below the shoulder blado with a single sharp exclamation the victim rolled from the cot to the floor dead and the murderer and his companion fled without stopping to commit further robbery hong wah and hop sing notified the officers and capt brown detective pender and officer farr went at once to the scene but on account of the frightened condition of the were unable to pet a lucid account of the affair two suspicious characters were arrested at riverside park but were able to prove an alibi and were released justice was notified of the occurrence and went at to tho scene ho ordered the body to be taken to Lindquist fi undertaking parlors and the inquest will be held in the pal court room at 3 p m tomorrow eli jah larkin and david Il igginbotham have been selected as two members of the coroners jury but the third has not yet been selected today detective render officers chambers and vance and sheriff layne have been working on the case they have been to the Chin amens cabin in company with county attorney II alverson they discovered footprints of two persons evidently boys or small sized men leading from the cabin east for about liala a mile to the bench along the line of the trail was found a small black stiff hat similar in description to one described as being worn by one of the robbers the also found a cartridge shell and a flattened bullet on the floor the bullet had evidently struck ft stevo pipe and rebounded the shell indicated it is of the sort in which smokeless powder is used and belongs to a lueger ao calibre automatic revolver this weapon is manufactured in belgium and very few of them have been sold in this section of the united states browning bros state they have only sold one or two and they believe there arc only about four or five in this state they sent by request a box of these cartridges to idaho a short time ago the arc this afternoon round ang up all the ch in or vicinity and they willa be searched for evidence of the crime an endeavor ii being made by the officers to get the bloodhounds at the biah state penitentiary in salt lake or those belonging to detective K A franks of salt lake and it h thought tho robbers can be easily followed by this means measurements of the tracks have been taken by the officers FORMER ROBBERIES these have been the victims of several previous robberies which have been attributed to rowdy boys A year ago they were robbed of 28 and at that time circumstantial evidence seemed to indicate the guilty parties to the police but it was not strong enough to warrant arrests being made THEORIES one of the advanced is that the same miscreants were guilty again and that the boy was holding the gun cocked became when the chinaman lowered his hands and involuntarily pulled alie trigger this seems to be borne out bv the consternation which seized the robbers when the cliot was fired donld hardly have been as great on the members of the criminal clement now infesting this section the other theory is that alie crime was committed by a couple of hobles hoboes if so they were small men as both the footprints and the hat seem to be boys sizes the robbers obtained thirty cents from hong wah before the murder |