The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-04
Especial to The Herald.)

Especial to The Herald.)
Ogden, Utah, Oct. 3.-Miss Lille OFT
was fired upon and wounded tonight by
Will Edison.
Will McCabe, who was Miss Otis es-
cort at the time of the tragedy, was
shot through the arm.
Edison is in Jail.
Miss OFT will probably die.
Such are the bare facts of tragedy
enacted here tonight The affair hap
pened about 1856 out near the south end
of the city limits, but a snort distance
from Miss Otis home.
Edison, who did the shooting, was a
rejected sutton of the young lady.
The affair first came to the notice Of
most people in Ogden when an officer
came over to the hall where the Re
publican convention was in session, in
curing for Chief of Police Davenport
The officer had simply heard that there
had been some shooting. Little atten-
ton was paid to the matter for time,
but it soon became noised about that
the victim of the affair was Miss Oft,
and
THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT
prevailed.
Mosornan Joseph Bailey was on the
street car that brought Miss OFT to
town. He told this story 1T was about
7:35. I was out near the south end Of
the line when [ heard two shots. When
1 got up to about Thirty-ffth street
noticed a girl lying on the west side of
the track, one arm over the rail. Two
bicycles were lying near her. I stopped
the car and got down. Edison came up
to her about the same time that | did.
The girl was crying and moaning, and
1 stopped over her. She said, o, my
God, Mr.. Bailey, I am snot-shot
through The heart Take me to a doc
tor Edson also said, Yes, take her to
a doctor as quick as you can 1 said,
Who shot your and she said He did,
pointing to Edison. At this Edison said,
Yes, by Cd. I shot her I started to
lift her up and Edison started to help.
We
LIFTED HER INTO THE CAR.
The only other passengers were Mr..
HUMPHREYS and the Misses Burch. Ed
son kept near Miss OFT, once he bent
over her, and she pushed him away. 1
warned HUMPHREYS not to let him get
out, and HUMPHREYS shut the rear door.
asked Edison where his gun was,
and he said here c1apping his hand
on his hip pocket. 1 told him to give
it to me, and at first he declined, but 1
told him he must. He then wanted to
take the loads out, but 1 told him to
leave it just as it was. On the way
down he kept saying, I know she is
just scared, not shot 1 asked him
two or three times why he shot her,
but ne kept saying, she was not shot.
just scared. After some talk I decided
to go over to the jail with Edison. He
said he disliked to go alone. On the
way over 1 asked him again
WHY HE DID IT.
He said I saw that other fellow using
a vile name, and 1 could not stand it,
When we got to the jail gave the gun
to the officer. Edison said nothing, but
took out a handful of loaded shells
from his pocket and laid them on the
table. 1 then ran back to my car. He
seemed perfectly cool. 1 am quite sure
he had not been drinking. The girl
bled some at the mouth on the way
down, but not from the wounds
L. A. HUMPHREYS was the other man
on the car. He is quartermasters agent
for the government here. He said:
81 was on the car with Miss Burch
and her younger sister. Edison wanted
to get off the car at Twenty-sixth /
street. He said he wanted to go give |
himself up. I would not let him off |
alone. Miss OFT told Miss Burch on the
way down that Edison had come up to !
her and McCabe and had asked her
IF HE NIGHT SEE HER
tomorrow night. She told him no. She !
did not want to see him at all. He had I
said that in that case he would shoot
her, and he began shooting. Miss OFT
also said on the way down that Edison
had shot McCabe and that she wished
me to go up and see if I could find
him.
1t seems that McCabe ran on after
the girl fell and gave the alarm. He
went first to Mr.. sherwood's ard then
to the OFT residence, where he told
Mr.. OFT. McCabe's wound is not seri-
BUS, being on the arm.
Miss Oft IS a daughter of J. W. OFT,
for the Hughes Produce com
pany. Miss OFT worked at the store,
keeping books. Byron OFT, her brother,
is a popular young druggist in the en-
ploy of Thomas Carr. The girl was
very popular among a large circle of
acquaintance. She is rather tall,
about II years of age and very pretty.
Edison had been waiting on her at in
tervals for several years. 1t seems he
made threats to her on Thursday night
when she was out with McCabe. He
aacosted them near the scene of to-
nights tragedy. He came up, shook a
pistol in Miss Otis face, and told her