The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-02
SHOT TO KILL
BEN HolLEY DIES FROM WOUNDS IN
FlIcrEp BY WOMAN WITH GUN.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IHURSD "
HELEN ALaERrv BOUND OVER TO THE
DISTRICT COURT.

BENJAMIN Holley, a negro 81 years OF
age, employed as a saloon porter. at the
Homestead bar in this city, formerly
4 hod carrier in Denver was shot through
the boiy by his common law wife at
1910 O'Clock Thursday night, receiving
wounds from which he died at o:3o
o,,,oct v.st-ri,v m,rniug The
woman who committed the deed, Helen
Alberty, a negress q, wears old was ar
rested by Marshal o'Rouvke shortly
after the shooting. She claimed that
Hollev had attacked her with knife
and tn At sbe shot him in self defense.
The couple had had quarrel earlier in
the evening and were on the corner near
the Castle hotel when the shooting took
place. No one witnessed the aft ur and
after firing two shots the second one TAX
ing effect, the woman ran awiv aud Sc
creted the revolver, which was after
wards recovered BY Marshall O'Rourke.
The shooting was done with 3S caibre
revolver, the bullet passing through the
mans left wrist after which 1t entered
his BODY Just below the heart and lodged
near the back bone.
The couple had been living together
as man and wife for the past three
years. They have had frequent alterca-
tions, and on two former occasions, once
in Denver two years ago, and IN this CITY
last Christmas the young woman tried to
carve Holley with knife. She was ar
rested aud spent some time in Jail for the
offence in Denver. The two came TO
this city from Denver last August. The
woman's mother, MIS- Lucy Alherty
liver at 442 Argc street. Denver, while
the parents of Holley reside at s322 East
nNineteenth street, Kansas City, Mo.
Coroner smith and District Attorney
Smith with q jury held an inquest over
the remains yesterday aud an autopsy
was performed at the suggestion of the
jurors.
VERDICT OF THE coRoNER's JURY.
We the jury find, That the said Ben
Holley was shot and wounded by bullet
from a .38-calibre revolver in the hands.
and fred by the hands. of the said Helen
Alberty; said bullet entering the body of
the said Ben Holley below and to the LETT
of the left nipple. passing through the
body and lodging under the skin on the
right side; said firing and shooting was
done on or near the corner of Illinois and
Virginia streets il the city OF Idaho
Springs, Clear Creek county. state OF
Colorado, on the night Of the 3rst day OF
May, 1896, at about 1890 p. M, and the
said Ben Holley came TO his death by
said shot and wound, and said death &C.
Cured about 6:3o a. m. June 1st 1000, IN
said city, county and state aforesaid.
GEO. G. WHITING,
Foreman,
H. O. WALKER,
w. N. IRWIN,
Jun BROWN,
THos. CAIN,
JNo. A. WILKINS.
The woman charged with the commits
sion of the crime, Helen Alberty, was
arraigued before Justice Of the Peace
DGriswold yesterday afternoon. After the
reading of the information. she entered
plea of not guilty aud waived prel mi
nary examination. She was bound over
to the next term of the district court for
trial, the bond being placed at $1,000, in
default of which she will lspguish in the
county Jail until her case is reached in
the district court.
Red Men Select Officers.
At its regular meeting, held Wednes-