The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-18
SHOT BY A BURGLAR.
G. 3. Poor, of Omaha, is Murdered
In Cold Blood.
THE WIFE FINDS THE HUSBAND
Win Bullet Hole in His Head-History of
the Man Upon Whom Suspicion
Rests

street was aroused from its slumhers h,
the frantic cries of woman who begged
that something might be done to save thu
NE OF her husband. The neighbors re
sponded very quickly to the heartrendine
appeals of the woman and found that the
cries came from the residence of C. S
Poor, proprietor of the Nebraska Steam
laundry. The awe-struck neichbors. for il
is very quiet portion of the city, were
oumofounded to find Mr.. Poor lying on the
moor IN ms room, tiny stream of blood
from bullet wound IN his forehead telling
sad story Of murder
Mrs Poor said that about 3 O'Clock she
was awakened by disturbance which she
could notlocate and cannot now describe.
nsunctively she felt that something was
wrong and called to her husband, who slept
IN room across the hall, "Charlie, y
Charlie" but received no response. She
was crossing the hall and going into her
husbands room, when she found him lean
ing out OF the window in his night clothes.
she spoke to him, threw her arms about
hlm.and leaning out the window saw by the
GIN light dark stream trinkling from a
@AA~ ASACAOelO OOHA GuO TOOI anu INTO
the gutter She did not faint or go into
Mysteries, but pulled her husband back into
room and summoned the domestic. The
Two women tried to restore the wounded
man, and failing, the wife telephoned TO a
near friend, who then summoned the neigh
DOR In half an hour assistance came and
then the reaction came. Mrs. Poor gave
way TO her grief and the case of her huss
oand fell into the hands of doctors.
Why or how the murder was committed
is entirely matter of conjecture. 1t was
undoubtedly the work of burglar. The
position in which the body was found in
alcates that MIR. Poor had been disturbed
by some one on the roof of the porch inst
outside his window, or climbing the posts
and rising, had stolen silently into his hall
secured his revolver, which was resting in
clock case, and throwing up the window
had thrust out the upper portion of his
BODY with the half cooked revolver in
ms hand. Then the shot was fired
and his head fell forward on the
roof OF the porch while the revolver
dropped from mis- nerveless fingers to the
Il nroof, where it was found by the wife.
A moment after upon examination of the
weapon it was discovered that all the
chambers were filed with cartridges. The
vines on the posts of the porch inst below
the window where the murder was com
united, on examination weresfound tn he
partially torn and marks on the paint indi
Gated where the murderer had climbed nm
There were traces OF footprints IN a
flower bed just below the dirino-
room window, as ii some one
had first tried the lower windows
THESE are all the clues the police have to
work on. Nothing in the criminal annals
OF Omaha has created such intense and
deep rooted Indignation as this affair. The
admirable character Of the murdered man.
the pleasantness of his domestic life and
surroundings; his integrity as citizen.
the cold-blooded brutalities of the assassin.
the lack OF clues for his detection. and The
fact OF the victim being shot down while
defending his home, his wife and his chill
dren, form combination of circum-
stances that quite transcends anything that
has happened III this city for quarter of a
century.
Suspicion points to one man as the DOS
slble murderer, ex-Conviet Charles White
who is well-known in criminal circles
He Is sharp, shrewd intelligent, vindictiye
and fearless. He is about five feet. six
inches IN height and weighs rs pounds.
dressed in light clothes with light hair
light mustaehe and rather handsome fea.
lures. He has history. Two years ago
ne was cleverly captured by the police for
burglarizing residence on Park avenue
A large amount of silver coin was taken
he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced
Tor seven years to the pen1ten-
tiary. His attorney claimed that
the complaint was defective and took the
case to the supreme court. That tribunal
sustained the appeal and on the strength
Of the decision White was discharged. after
serving two years of his time. He left the
penltentiary the 5th of the month and inn
medlately came to Omaha, although for
some days he managed to elude the police
and was taken before Kelsey and given
one hour TO leave the city. He was seen
long after the hour had expired in the vi
entity in which the deed was committed
AT the time of his death Mr. Poor was in
MS thirty-second year and leaves a wife
and two children. :
A spscial to the Herald states that
here Is rumor in Washington to the eff
ect that Senator Henderson expects to re-
ign his seat in the Senate for an ambas-
adorship in Spain, succeeding Minister
recently resigned. The idea, how
'ver. is scoffed at by the Senator's nearest ,,
riends in this city, who state that they
annot allow the Senator to resign his seat {
i this time, having yet three years to
serve.
The passenger rate war was very excit-
ng today. the Milwaukee people having
old up to o'clock over two hundred c
Messenger tickets. The 50 rate is proving I
cry popular over the Burlington. The !
lock Island and the Northwestern route 6
act the cut yesterday, but it is thought Y
9onday viii bring a renewal Of hostilities.
y is predicted on every side that the @
omaha and Chicago rate viii have to come G
own TO 81 before peace is declared.
The bank Hearings for the week foot I'D
o,41S, O6-.46, an increase of 1873 per cent.
C0Hflagration and Cyclone. [.
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