The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-17


Hayden, of Chicago. Representatives of
the Fidelity and Casualty company of
New York. and them emptied his re-
volver into his own brain, ind1oting a
wound from which he died two hours
later.
Cromwell and Hayden, it is thought,
viii recover
Surrounded by Mystery.
Huntington was one of the best
known men in Council Bluffs and
numbered his friends by the hundreds
So far as can be learned, he had no
bad habits and this is what makes his
act harder to explain. On the 10th of
last July a check for $500 was turned
over to him by Ira f. Hendricks, one
Iof the employees of the bank, in the
ITegusar routine of business. Hunting
ton charged up the check to the Union
Stock National Bank of South Omaha,
and from that day TO this nothing
whatever has been seen or heard of it.
The following day, Hunting for q
vacation trip of several weeks to New
York City. The bank officials kept
thinking the check would turn up
sooner or later and deferred any ac-
ltionL AS time passed on and 1T became
evident that the bank was out $500,
land Casualty company, notifying 1T of
the fact and suggesting that inspectors
come on and make an investigation.
The bank officials claim that at the
time they had no charges to make
against Huntington or any employee of
ilthe bank in particular. All OF their
employees were bonded in the Fidelity
and they preferred that the Fidelity
company should make the investigation
rather than make 1t themselves.
Messrs. Cromwell and Hayden arrived
in the city last Friday and took rooms
ait the Grand hotel. They cross-ex-
Through whose hands the missing
check had passed and among the rest
Huntington. They Claimed to have
| discovered that he had been spending
more money than the salary of S45 a
month which he was receiving would
warrant, and on this fact, together
with the fact that the check had been
last seen in his hands, they based their
suspicious.
! The FstaI Meeting.
Huntington and the representatives
of the Fidelity company met Saturday
night ard made arrangements for an
other meeting ait the bank Sunday
morning, when the investigation was
to be resumed At the hour appointed
they were together, and Cromwell. and
Hayden commenced to put the young
man Through a running crcss-fire of
questions. President J. d. Edrnon5son
and Cashier G.. r. Hannah, of the
bank, were present during the most OF
the interview. The conference had not
been in progress more than five min
utes, when Huntington rose from his
chair, pulled a revolver and commenced
firing at the representatives of the
Fidelity company.
The revolver he used was a. 44-calibre
that belonged to the bank and had
been kept in THE desk of G.. F. SpOons-,
the paying teller. The first three shots
were fired at Cromwell, who had taken
1.-THE lead in the Interrogation and all
three took effect. The fourth struck
i Hayden, and then Huntington raised
the weapon to his own head and fired
He fell ITO the floor unconscious and re-
matned so until his death at Ito p. m
The two wounded men ran out of the
bank down First avenue and into the
Grand hotel, blood dripping from them
at every step. They were taken tic
their rooms and DIR. Donald MacRae
ljr., was summoned. He found thai
lone of the bullets had taken effect IL
Cronlwel's back just to the right OF
Ittne spine about the waist line. 1t wa:
found about four inches below the sur
face and extracted. The second bulle'
struck i'm the left side OF his meek
jploughed its way around the rgh
side of his neck and came to- a stoI
latter lust missing the carCitoid artery
The third struck him in the right wrist
he having Thrown UP his hand t.
strike the revolver out of Huntington!
Ihand. 1t broke one of the bones o
, the forearm clear in two and i'm
: lbedded itself in the other bone, almosi
severing it. When the bail was ltakei
out it was cut almost in two from TIL
lpointed end down. Cromwell will prob
iably lose the use of his right hand oi
account of "a stiffening Of the wrls
: Joint as a. result of the fracture Of tn
bone.
Deliberately Planned.
, Hayden Jared better The bulle
: struck him in tine neck and afte
, passing around a quarter way, emery
ed and embedded itself in a panel of tn
! door where it was afterwards found
} His wound is not considered of a seri
Gus nature, but a variation of half a.
Inch would have killed him. The bull
Iejt that took Huntington'S life entere'
1.-THE skull Just behind the ear an
S lodged back of the right eye, where IT
) presence was shown by a discoloraItto
of the lid. His having the weapon /
his possession showed that he ha
: PLANNED it all out before hand and hi
: GOODNESS in the face Of the terribt
5 ldeed ne was meditalting is surprising
all the men who were present at th
interview testlfying that they had nc
: che slightest idea that anything out G
E 1.-The ordinary run of things was though
by the young man.
The parents of young Huntingto
were ait once summoned The age
monther was beside herself with s'rle
The death of their son was affiicto
enough, but the honest old people az
! peared to be grieved more that H'hei
lson should have committed the tW
y crimes of robbing his employers an
n |then attempting to murder, than owe
J. 1.-The mere fact of his death:
e ssThat he is dead, is bad enough.
e lsaid his mother, but that he shoul
y lido such a thing is terrible"
- The Presidents Version
J. D. Edmondson, the president Of tt