The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-29
Mrs. Katherine Reagan, a Gar
field Hotel Keeper, Tried to
Shoot Frank Mayo in CORR
dor Of the Boston Building.
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
AN AUTOMATIC REVOLVER
Attempted Shooting Is Result
OF an Attempt on the Part Of
Husband to Secure Charge
of a Six-Year-0Id Child,
CASE COMES UP TODAY

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= Half-craZed through fear Of los y
= ing her 6-year-old daughter, and =
- believing herself to be the victim =
- of a plot of which she says her =
- husband is the hief instigatOr, and =
- Frank Mayo and others are the =
- accessories, Mrs. Katherine Rea- -
= gan. pTOprietress of a hotel at =
- Garfield. attempted to shoot Frank -
:: Mayo in the corridor Of the Boston =
= building late Wednesday night. =
:. and, it is stated. was only prevent =
= ed from accomplishing her purpose =
= by her Ignorance of the methods =
- of using an automatic revolver. =
= The attempt was made on Mayo's =
= life just outside the door of A. B. =
:: Irvine's office, in which Mayo had =
- been giving deposition in the bat =
= tie for the custody of the child now =
= being fought by Mr.. and Mrs. Rea- -
I: gan. =
:: After the woman had placed the :.
:: revolver against Mayos body and =
- attempted to shoot him by pulling =
= the safety, she was seized and dis =
: armed by her husband, Frank Rea- =
: gan, who had been present during =
:: the taking Of the deposition. =
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Mrs. Reagan was placed under arrest
at her hotel in Garfield yesterday after
noon by Deputy Sheriff Edward Palmer
and brought to the county Jail or
complaint charging attempt to murder
sworn out before Judge ]. NJ. Bowman.
The woman was placed under bond and
released. She was hysterical when
brought to the Jail, and declared it was
another move to separate her from her
little daughter.
For several weeks the Reagans have
been fighting for the possession Of their
child, following the filing of a divorce
suit by Mrs. Reagan a few months ago.
Several hearings have already been had
before Judge c. W. Morse Of the district
court, and q final hearing in the case is
set for today. The feeling between
husband and wife has been bitter, and
Mrs. Reagan has at various times ac-
cused her husband Of sending spies to
her hotel to find out the kind of a life
she was leading. Walter Ryan, a for
mer cook at the hotel, testified at one
of the recent hearings that Mrs. Rea-
gan had threatened to shoot him; that
she had a gun and looked Ike she knew
how to use It, and that he played the
better part of valor and linked"
The ramifications of the Reagan case
has furnished gossip for acquaintance
of the family In Garfield for several
months. About one year ago it is stated
that the Reagans were living happily
together. At that time Mrs. Reagan is
said to have asked her husband to move
20 Nevada Reagan claims that he went
to Nevada and made a home for the
woman there, and that she refused to
90 10 him. Reagan then returned to
Garfield and says he was refused ad-
mission to his home. Later Mrs. Rea-
gan started a hotel near the Utah Cop
per mines. Shortly following this move
on her part she instituted a suit for d.
vorce against her husband.
Woman Grows Suspicious.
In his answer and cross-petition, the
husband asked that the daughter be
placed in the St. Mary's academy in
salt LAKE.. Mrs. Reagan fought this
request of her husband. and petitiOned
that the child be allowed TO remain with
her in Garfield. In the meantime, it is
said. Mrs. Reagan grew suspicious Of
various persons about the hotel. and it
IS said that she has frequently made
threats of violence against some Of
them. Walter Ryan and George Gil
bert, one a cook and the other a boarder
at the Reagan hotel, have testified in
hearings of the divorce case that Mrs.
Reagan had threatened their lives,
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