The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21
CRIME IN KLOND|KE
Frank Clements Murderer Narrowly
Escaped Lynching.
OUTFIT WITHOUT FRILLS
WILL PASS THE CANADIAN
CUSTOMS DUTY FREE.
What Is and What Is Not Liable to
Tarif-Schneider's Story of the
Quarrel Which Resulted In the
Death of Clement-Another Ska
quay Murder-Klondike News.

Dyea, Alaska, March IA, via Astoria,
Ore, March 2O.-Frank Clement Of
Hillsboro. Ore, was shot and killed at
Sheep Camp this morning by Gottlieb
Schneider of Howard county, Maryland.
A lynching was averted only by the
prompt action of the officers in getting
the murderer out of the way. He is
now in Jail at this place.
Clement lived several hours, but
failed to give an account of the quar-
rel. Schneider's story. told to an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent, is as fol-
lows:
SCHNEIDER'S STORY.
81 met Clement coming up on the
steamer Elder in February, and saw
him once here and in Dyea afterward.
Several days after we got here. Gle
ment came to me and said that his
partner had decided to go back, and
he wanted me to buy the outfit and
go TO Dawson with him. l told him
that l had nothing with which to buy
it. He then told me that he had
enough money to buy out his partner,
and if I would go along with him he
would sell me the outfit and let me
pay after we got to Dawson. 1 finally
agreed to do this, and we drew up an
agreement in German and each took
a copy.
CLEMENT WOULD QUARREL.
I'm the first two weeks we got some
of the stuff up to Sheep Camp aQd
some to Scales. BY that time / found
out that Clement would start a quarrel
every chance he had. We were camped
at Sheep Camp, a short distance below
the power house. One day the weather
- -
fast we could not see. Clement wanted
me to button up his coat. but 1 could
not see to do it. He became very mad
at that and cursed me. and again that
night. after we retired in the tent, he
renewed his curses and said he would
cut hell out of me for it. The next
morning as l was getting breakfast
would do so if he would pay me for
what packing I had done.
STOP THAT SNORING"
Yesterday we had another quarrel,
and in the evening 1 was sleeping in
the tent, when Clement came in and
yelled at me, Stop that snoring or I'll
cut your throat l said nothing, but
got no sleep. being afraid that he would
carry out his threat. This morning [
was cooking breakfast when he came
in and said he was going to divide
some of the flour we had bought to-
gether and then sell the other outfit.
1 told him he had already sold it to
me, but he said, Yes, when you have
paid for it l told him 1 wanted what
was fair for my work. He said, To
hell with your work. 1 grabbed him,
and he reached around and got a big
knife and said he would cut my heart
out. 1 reached for my revolver and
cooked it, holding my thumb so the
hammer, which would not stay up
alone, would not drop. Clement hit my
hand and knocked my thumb off, which
discharged the gun. He ran outside,
crying that he had been shot, and
went and gave myself up to the Off
GERS"
THREATS OF HANGING.
Schneider was surrounded by the
mob and threats were made of hanging
him, but he was gotten away before
the threat was put into execution.
Three gamblers and all around
toughs were arrested and jailed today
on suspicion of being the murderers
of Samuel Roberts, who was murdered
yesterday. One of them, named Cor
bett, had a bullet wound in his Shout
der. supposed to have been indicted in
the melee.
A saloon and lodging house belonging
to Henry Douglass burned a week ago
and two men persisted. The wife OF one
of the dead men says her husband had
considerable money. which is now miss
ing. 1t is supposed the house was set
on fire.
ANOTHER SKAGUAY MURDER.
Seattle, Wash, March 2O.-Skaguay
has had another murder, according to
the officers of the steamers AL Kt and
Hueneme. which arrived here direct
from Lynn canal today. On last Mon
day night a laboring man was shot
by colored woman of the lower class
at the entrance of her cabin in the
saloon district of Skaguay. He died
shortly before the steamers sailed on
Tuesday morning. The murder was
the result of trouble, which began early
Monday evening, over the disappear
ance of the mans watch He was
armed at the time the negro woman
shot him dead, and had told her few
minutes before that he would come
back and kill her. The names of nei-
Their the man nor woman had been
learned. 1t was thought that the wom-
an would be released, as all the cir
cumstances seemed to justify her plea
of self-defense.
The AL XII left Skaguay Tuesday
noon. The captain saw no steamers
ashore on the way down, nor did he
see anything of the little gasoline
schooner Bessie X, which is a week
overdue from Skaguay.
The damage sustained by the HUI
eneme's cargo, which caught fire on
her upward trip, is estimated at Sc, 900.