The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-06-25
ENGINEER SHOOTS
BOISE CONTRACTOR
HI. NJ. Hedges Fires Five Shots at A
S. Whiteway of Boise-Re-
suit of Jealousy.

BOISE, Idaho, June ga sensa.
tional shooting affray in one of the
rooms on the first floor of the Ida.
no hotel here caused considerable
excitement Sunday afternoon. which
however. was quickly allayed when
1t was found that it had no connec-
ton with the Haywood trial. There
was woman in the case. H. M.
Hedges, an engineer we'll known in
Caldwell, fired five shots at A. S.
Whiteway, building contractor of
Boise, seriously wounding him. Three
OF the bullets took effect.
Hedges arrived in Boise yesterday
and registered at the hotel His wife
had proceeded him, accompanied by
La woman friend. The three occupied
adjoining rooms. Whiteway, who il
La. married man with two children,
called on Hedges and the two were
together on Saturday night. Accord
ing to the story of the woman who
accompanied Mrs. Hedges from Cald
we'll, there had been some jealousy
between the two men in the past on
account OF Waterways attentions to
Mrs. Hedges while he was visiting in
Caldwell.
About o'clock in the evening
Whiteway and Hedges went up to
the room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Hedges. Within a few minutes after
ward the shooting began. Five shots
were fired.
William Balderston, the editor of
the Idaho Statesman, who happened
to be in a room on the same cor
ridor, was the first to open the door.
Just as he did so, Hedges, holding
the pistol pointed upwards, came out
down the corridor. Whiteway lay in
a corner groaning. Mrs. Hedges, who
had been in the room while thu
shooting was going on, followed her
husband. A police officer met the
group and took the pistol from
Hedges. 1t was 80 Colt automatic.
Hedges and his wife were at once
taken to the police station in an auto
mobile and a physician attended
Whiteway. The most intense excite
ment followed the reports of the pis-
tol. Gov. Gooding. who has his
apartments on the second floor Of
the hotel, was also one of the first
on the scene.
A dozen detectives and others We're
among the crowd that quickly gath
cred in the corridor. The best YER
sion of the affair is that Hedges
brought Whiteway to the room and
confronted him with Mrs. Hedges.
The shooting began at once. White
way was sitting on a lounge and
the first shot passed through his
legs. He attempted to get out OF a
window and, as he rose, Hedges
fired, missing him. He fired again,
and the bullet struck Whiteway in
the neck, passing through the outer
skin and around to the right jaw.
Mrs. Hedges clutched her husbands
arm and begged him to stop. White
way, finding that he could not get
out the window, ran to another win
dow opening on balcony, and here
Hedges shot again, the bullet entering
his back One other shot was fired
and passed through the window and
across the balcony where three chill
dren had been playing 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. Luke's hospital
say that Whiteway will recover.
Hedges and his wife are held for
examination pending the result of
Waterways wounds. After the
shooting and while on the way to the
station, Hedges said to his wife:
Il had not the nerve to shoot
you, but l took him up there to kill