Arizona republican., 1910-08-04
HE WAS 4 PHOENIX BOY
 ACHIEVEMENTS VICTIM
ROY H. IRWIN SHOT AT PORT
 LAND, ORE.
Letter to His Sister Says He Win
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 ceiVed an Associated Press dispatch describing the shooting of Roy II. IT, win at Portland, Ore, presumably by highwaymen it was supposed at this office that the victim might be Roy Irwin for many years a resident of Phoenix, employed by the Electric Light company and later by the Building and Loan association. He vent from here 10 Los Angeles where he was for some time engaged in business. There was no one the night the dispatch was received who could be communicated with for his sisters, Miss Laura Irwin, bookkeeper for the Valley Realty company and Mrs. C. s Gilbert were both out of town.
 Miss Irwin returned to the city q day or two ago and yesterday she received a letter from the wife of her brother informing her of the shooting. An accompanying clipping from a Portland paper gave the following account of the affair:
 With his tongue clipped in two and the lower part of his jaw carried away by a bullet. Roy H. Irwin lay propped up on a cot in St. Vinccnts hospital today while he wrote a state ment that may help detectives find the two highwaymen who robbed and shot him near his home at GIG North rup street. at about II o'clock last night. This is what he wrote:
 "I was walking home and vas within a few feet of my house on Northrup street. when two men step ped out from behind woOdpile and told me to throw up my hands. I said: I will not and began fighting Keep quiet.' they ordered, and when I did not one of them poked a re viIver he had been holding in my face and shot. We struggled in the got all the money had-about S. Then they walked away
 Detectives did not question him as to what followed. for his wife supplied additional facts. She and her sister, Mrs. C. E. Burt, were awaiting the arrival of Irwin. when they heard a scuffle in the street
 We heard them mumbling. said Mrs. Irwin, and then one said: Keep quiet,' Then we ran outside, ana, standing on the porch saw three men struggling in the bushes that line the sidewalk just east of the house When they saw us, two of the men got up and walked slowly east on NOrthrup street.
 We heard groans and ran to where the third man lay. My God" l said. It's Roy,' It was. We took him to the house From his mouth the blood streamed. I begged him to allow me to take him to the Good Samaritan hospital, which is not far away. He would not listen to me He insisted on going for a doctor. He went outside the house and walked down Northrup street for several blocks. A lumber wagon came clat tering by. and we got in. When we reached the Ramapo hotel on Wash ington street, I persuaded him We would find a doctor there. We got off from the wagon. the night clerk clerk in the hotel called the Central stables ambulance. and I had him brought here
 Mrs. Irwin has not left her hus- bands side. When she talked for the newspapers at about noon today. she stilled wore the blood covered gown in which she accompanied her wound ed husband to the hospital.
 Irwin is secretary of the Inland Irrigation company, which has it's head offices in Stanfield, Ore. He is about thirty-five years old and came to Portland with his wife in April They have no children. They have been living with Mrs. Burt at the Northrup street address for about ten days.
 Yesterday the Irwn's entertained Dora Short, aged IS. and her younger brother, 12, orphans. They arrived in Portland alone yesterday morning from Arizona with letter of intro- duction from an acquaintance of IT, win and left this morning for Prime vile. where they will live with a brother Irwin took the children to Council Creek last night, thence to his home. and about II o'clock ac- companied them to the Ramapo hotel, where they passed the night. He was on his way home from the hotel, having been gone about twenty min utes, when he vas assaulted.
 That the motive of Irwin's assail- ants was robbery the police detectives Hyde and Day--who were assigned to the case, have no doubt. The mon ey he had with him was taken and his bunch of keys, which was taken, was found this morning by Jesse Luker of 610 .Northrup street, lying near the woodpile. from out the shad- ow of which the two men stepped and accosted the secretary.
 "J C. Luker. father of Jesse Luker, and Henry Hagelstein. who lives with the Lukers, and the son who found the keys, corroborated Irwin's story. They heard sounds of the scuffle, positively remembered hearing some one say: Throw up your hands!' and when the shot was fired, ran out to see what had happened. They saw Irwin struggling to raise himself from. the ground. and the two men walking down Northrup street toward down town.
 Two attempts were made Friday night, according to Mrs. Irwin and her sister. to enter their little home. Both times the intruders were fright ened away.
 ''Dr. c. c. Moore is attending IT,