Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-19
WOMAN'S STORIES
ARE CONFLICTING
Emma Young Has Given Various
Versions Of Shooting OF Her.
self by Charles W. Rigdon.
CORONER HAS HIS DOUBTS
noesu't Believe Everything Has Been
Told, That Certain Persons Can
Tell Much More.


chicago July III don't think the
,oal story Of the shooting of Mrs. EN-
ma Young BY Charles w. Rigdon and
Ono suicide Of the latter last Friday
,ss been told yet" said Coroner Peter
N Hoffman. last night. "and there are
certain persons who can tell much that
has been left unsaid. We will get to
,bc bottom Of the whole affair If posi-
he
Many conflicting statements have
besn made BY all parties In the case.
Mrs Young declared yesterday that
Rigdon shot her and killed himself be-
cause he was jealous of two men. one
n them. she said, is John c. Fetzer
millionaire, In whose office the shoot
ing took place. and the other is S. w.
Tanner, clerk at a downtown hotel.
Both men denied that story.
In her story, told to Police Inspector
Patrick LAWN, Mrs. Young said she
reared that Riedon.s original intention
had been to get her and Fetzer together
and kill them both She said she was
afraid TO go to meet the man alone,
and for that reason she took her half
sister. Mary Theresa Turner" with
her to the Fetzer offices.
Mrs. Young assured me that Rig
don's discovery that she had written
letter to Mr. Fetzer was the immedi-
ate cause Of the tragedy" Inspector
LAWN said she also insisted that
Rigdon had threatened to take the life
VI Fetzer a day or so before the shoot
Ing and that Fetzer had sent her word,
For Gods sake, see Rigdon and
aalghten this out.
AFRAID TO MEET RIGDoN.
~ was afraid TO meet Rigdon alone
In Mr. Fetzer's Offices after / had
agreed 10 go there the woman said,
50 ! took my sister with me. When
Kigdon came in. / showed him a letter
and told him he had been prosecuting
me
That lsas about all that was said
a. far as she was able TO tell" con-
Guided The police official
she said that Rigdon remarked, |
We'll suppose that you don't want
anything further 10 do with me- |
dropped his head in his hands and then |
reached for his gun I'm his desk and |
began TO shoot at her and her sister, as /
they ran out OF the room, and Mrs. |
Young fell He turned the revolver to |
his own head and hred.
'Fetzer, according to the woman. was
IN the room and heard all the CONVEX
sation. He left when Rigdon reached 4
ior the revolver, according TO our in
vestigation Of the circumstances.
The letter that Mrs. Young says she
showed when she upbraided Rigdon |
vas one which he had written TO S. ".
Tanner clerk at the hotel. in which
klgdon had east reflections upon the
character Of Mrs. Young. She said
hat the letter had been written by
higdon during fit of jealousy some
ume ago when she was stopping at the
MOTEL She asserted that Tanner had
gwen Inc letter TO her as soon as ne
received IT,"
The mother OF the two women went
70 Evanston to live about three weeks
go, one says her name is Mrs.
VSar j. Trojman. She said that her
husband who had been in the
H,orWegian diplomatic service at
washington and London, died six
!ears ago In the English capital.
Ne came TO Chicago at the request
my daughter, Mrs. Young, three
NeeAs ago. she said Mr. Rigdon |
sna she arranged for the lease OF this
t Souse' ! know that Mrs. Young had
ven employed by him as a private
.sssVre'ary and stenographer for about
a'iee years and has travelled all about
r' e west with him on his business
WHAT MOTHER SAYS.
me mother said that Mrs. Young
married 10 years ago to Alexan-
,ha,. iouhs, New York attorney and
49, al separated about three years
~ she said Young now was living
~ NeW York or Philadelphia. After
nv w separation, she said, her daughter
q S,n' stenographer and Il was in
s,s S ,sli onlee in New York that
As sss' ,Trojman said that since her
ssoands death. Mrs Young had
exported herself, her daughter
10, ' va ~ years old, another daugh-
Ws, %a',iaa, l6 years old and her son.
ehJ,SeI, lS years old All three OF her
h., and Mrs. Young reside with
aid .., my husbands death" she
wssh we moved from London to
D1nar. e t.h and lived for a time in
.ifetf r.. anu NJ 1884 Ninth |
ysv Two years ago we moved TO I
ired 10Th and lived on one Hun
Ac.cu h9 Thirty-fifth street"
ia,,h,1s to the mother. her I
n Me- Iheresa attended a convent I
lthsr funston until recently and the {
S,ho,sna laughter, Matilda, was in
NM ssnool In Wisconsin :
tory ne the widow was telling her .
n. .heresa arrived at The residence !,
ma sn onee dismissed all interviewers
lon yhn'ounced that all the informa- .
'ro,r,s.'eh had been given bv Mrs
,isa'nah was Incorrect.
he ne,,-y was arranged lust for =,
Yo,, 'sApapers to get she said y
on hs,ed better not believe What :
er ov.r woman continued that
urnssn name was Mary ,rharas, p
lader ahd that her half-sister's I
bat ~, va me was Emma Young hut :
idoW haa been married is
ec ns refused to give her mar i
On wa - declared that Rig
Irs va distant relative Of Miss -
imny Wig and had lived with the
I'd oths. they lived in New york
W ret cities. To accoun, %. .S
Io,hsr ha she declared thai her
au been married twice.