The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-08-01
ALVIN RICHMOND DEAD
COmbatted Effects of the Shooting
Till 10 a. m. Tuesday.
MRS. SCHOLE'S BAIL Is $4,000.
Story Of the ARRAY as Gathered From vari.
GUS Sources Richmond Threatened to
Kill Mrs. Sehole's Husband Prior
to the Shooting.
AXIS. SCHOLE'S BAIL Is $1,000.

Alvin Richmond, who was shot at
Yakima City last Thursday afternoon
by Mrs. Edward Scholes, wife of the
Northern Pacific station agent at that
place, died at 10 a. m. Tuesday. From
the time he was first put under the doc
tors care they gave little hope of his re-
covery as the wound was thought to be
necessarily fatal. The bullet entered
the side and passed through the stom-
ach from right to left, lodging in the re-
gion OF the heart.
lived in Yakima City for about seven
teen years. He has been prospector
the greater part of his life and leaves a
family OF grown-up children.
After the death of Richmond Mrs.
Scholes was rearrested and brought to
Justice Taggard's Office Tuesday even
ing to answer to the charge of murder
in the first degree. Her bail was re-
newed in the sum of $1,000, and August
was set as the day for preliminary
hearing. The sureties on the bail bond
are: G.. H. Bartlett, f. w. Dooley, T.
II. Wheeler, S. LAUDER, S. E. Ferris and
A. S. Hayley.
The story of the shooting OF Richmond
by Mrs. Scholes as gathered from differ
ent sources, all of which vary somewhat
in minor details, though substantially
the same, is as follows:
1t appears that between and 9 O'Clock
of the afternoon OF last Thursday Alvin
Richmond, the victim, went to the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Scholes, evidently with
the intention of picking quarrel with
somebody. He was more or less under
the influence OF liquor at the time, and
as soon as he arrived at the Scholes
| house he began TRADE on Mrs. Scholes
who, it is said, was there alone. The
animus of the attack seems to have been
the result of a quarrel that Richmonds
son had had the day before with a man
by the name of Barnett. The younger
Richmond and Barnett had fight in
front of the Scholes house, and it is
claimed by the Richmonds that when
this fight was over Mrs. Scholes abused
the younger Richmond with her tongue
on account of her friendship for the
Barnetts.
When the elder Richmond began his
attack on Mrs. Scholes, it seems, it was
for the purpose OF getting "even" with
her for what she had said to and about
his son. He called her vile names and
made indecent proposals to her, it is
claimed by the Scholes. Mrs. Scholes
replied very forcibly to the old mans
wordy attack, which seemed only to
provoke him the more. After more hot
words on both sides Richmond started
away with the the threat (the Scholes
claim that he would go over to the N.
P. station and kill Agent Scholes, the
lady's husband. This declaration caused
fearing that Richmond might do her
husband some harm, she secured re-
volver from the house and followed.
She arrived at the station but short
time after Richmond got there. Agent
Scholes was not in the station. He was
out by freight car on the siding, doing
I some work about the car. When Rich
mond did not find Scholes in the station
he started out to where he was at work.
BY that time Mrs. Scholes arrived upon
the scene, and before Richmond could
approach her husband his attention was
attracted by her arrival, which seemed
to provoke him the more. He carried
good-sized club in his hand, which, it is
claimed, he intended to use upon Mr..
Scholes. He raised the club and started
toward Mrs. Scholes as though it were
his intention to strike her, she being
now near her husband. She OWNED
his motive and ordered him twice or
thrice to 60 back. He did not do it, and
seemed intent only on reaching them
with the club. He raised it up in the