The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
BOISE STIRRED
TO EXCITEMENT
"Woman in the Case" Is Prom
inent Figure in Sensational
Shooting Affair.
TRIAL is NOT INVOLVED
JEALOUSY AT BOTTOM OF THE
TROUBLE.

Boise, Idaho. June pa sensational
shooting affair in one of the rooms on
the first floor of the Idaho hotel here
this afternoon caused great excitement.
which, however, was quickly alIayed
when it was found that it had no cOnnec-
tiOn with the Haywood trial. There was
woman in the case. II. NJ. Hedges, di
engineer, well known in Caldwell, fired
five shots at A. s. Whiteway. a building
contractor, seriously wounding him. Three
of the bullets took effect.
Hedges arrived in Boise yesterday and
registered at the hotel. His wife preced-
ed him. accompanied by a woman friend.
The three occupied adjoining rooms.
Whitewdy, who is a married man with
two children, called on Hedges and the
two were together on Saturday night.
According to the story of the woman
who accompanied Mrs. Hedges from Cald-
well. there had been some jealousy be-
tween the two men in the past on ac
count of Waterways attentions to Mrs
Hedges while he was visiting in Caldwell
Woman the Cause.
At about 5 O'clock this evening White
way and Hedges went to the room
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs, Hedges. Within
few minutes afterwards the shooting Ue-
gan Five shots were fired William
BalderstOn, the editor of the Idaho States
man, who happened to be in a room on
the same corridor, was the first to open
the door. Just as he did so, Hedges,
holding the pistol pointed upwards, came
down the corridor. Whteway lay in a cor
ner of the room groaning- Mrs Hedges,
who mad been in the room while the
shooting had been going on. followed her
husband. A police officer met the group
and took the pistol from Hedges. 1t was
a thirty-twO- Colt automatic. Hedges and
his wife were at once taken to the police
station in an automobile and physician
attended Whitewdy.
Detectives on Scene.
the reports of the pistol. Governor Good
irg, who has apartments on the second
floor of the hotel. was one of the first
on the scene. Captain James Mcfarland
has his room on the same floor as that
or which the shooting occurred and was
also on the spot within few minutes. A
dozen detectives and others were among
the crowd that quickly crowded the cor
ridor
The better version of the affair is that
Hedges brought Whiteway to the room
and confronted him with Mrs. Hedges.
The shooting began at once. Whiteway
was sitting on a lounge and the first shot
passed through his legs. He attempted TO
get out of window and as he rose, Hedges
fired. missing him. He fired again and the
bullet struck Whiteway in the neck, pass
ing through the outer skin and around
TO the right jaw. Mrs Hedges elutehed
her husbands arm and begged him to
stop.
Children in Peril.
Whiteway finding he could not get out
of the window ran to another window
looking upon q balcony and here Hedges
shot again. the bullet entering the back.
One other shot was fired and passed
through the window and across the bal
cOny. where three children had been play
ing a few minutes before. BY this time
Whiteway was on the floor and the pistol
being empty. Hedges walked coolly from
the room, meeting Mr.. Balderston in the
doorway. The whole thing was over in
five minutes.
Physicians at St. Lukes hospital say
that Whiteway will recover. Hedges and
his wife are held for examination, pend
ing the result of Whiteway's wounds.
After the shooting and while on the way
to the station. Hedges said to his wife:
II had not the nerve to shoot you, but
I took him up there to kill him..