The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-24
SHOT THE MAN
But SPARED
HIS OWN LIFE
IRATE HUSBAND ATTEMPTS TX
KILL A BUILDING CONTRAC- J
TOR OF BOISE.
WOMAN WITNESSED THE SHOOTING
Onght Victim Into the Room, Com
frOnfed Him With His Wife and
Then Shot Him.
(By Associated Press.)

BOISE, Idaho, June ga sensa-
tional shooting affray in one of the
rooms on the first floor of the Idanha
hotel here this afternoon caused
considerable excitement, which, how
ever, was quickly allayed when 1t
was found that 1t had no connection
with the Haywood trial. There was
a woman in the case. II. M. Hedges
an engineer well known In Caldwell,
fired five shots at A. S. Whiteway, a
building contractor of Boise, seri-
ously wounding him. Three of the
bullets took effect.
Hedges arrived in Boise yesterday
and registered at the hotel. His wife
had preceded him, accompanied by
a woman friend. The three occupied
adjoining rooms. Whiteway who is
a married man with two children,
called on Hedges and the two We're
together on Saturday night. Accord
ing to the story of the woman who
accompanied Mrs. Hedges from Cald-
between the two men in the past on
account of Whiteway's attentions to
Mrs Hedges while he was visiting
in Caldwell.
About O'Clock this evening
Whlteway and Hedges went up to
the room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
Hedges. Within a few minutes af-
tcrward the shooting began. Five
shots were fired. VIM. Balderston,
the editor of the Idaho Statesman,
who happened to be in room on the
same corridor, was the first to open
the door. Just as he did so Hedges,
holding the pistol pointing upwards,
came down the corridor. Whiteway
| lay in a corner of the room groaning.
| Mrs. Hedges, who had been in the
room while the shooting was going
on, followed her husband. A police
officer met the group and took the
pistol from Hedges. 1t was 32
Colt automatic. Hedges and his wife
were taken to the police station in
an automobile attended by White
| way.
| The most intense excitement fol-
lowed the reports of the pistol. Gov
ernor Gooding, who has his apart
ment on the second floor of the ho-
| tel, was one of the first on the scene.
Captain James MCFARLAND has his
room on the same floor as that on
which the shooting occurred and was
also on the spot in a few minutes
A dozen detectives and others were
among the crowd that quickly gath
cred in the corridor.
The best 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 Il
| 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 White
way in the neck, passing through the
outer skin and around to the right
| Jaw. Mrs. Hedges clutched her hus-
bands arm and begged him to stop.
Whiteway, finding that he could not
get out of the window, ran to an
other window to a balcony and here
Hedges shot again, the bullet enter
ing his Lack. One other shot was
fred and passed through the window
and across the balcony where three
children had been playing few
minutes before. BY this time White
way was on the floor and the pistol
being empty, Hedges walked cody
from the room, meeting Mr.. Balder-
ston In the doorway. The whole
thing was over in five minutes.
Physicians at ST. Luke's hospital
say Whiteway will recover. Hedges
and wife are held for examination
pending the result of Whiteway's
wounds After the shooting White
way, while on the way to the sta
ton, said to his wife:
Il had not the nerve to shoot you,
but took him up there to kill him