The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-20
Chicago Police Know Less the
Farther They Probe Into
the Case.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS
FOLLOW EACH OTHER FAST
Wounded Woman, Her Mother
and Young Sister All Tell
Different Stories.

CHICAGO, July 19.-"I don It think
the real story of the shooting of Mrs
Emma Young by Charles w, Rigdon
and the suicide Of the latter, last Fri
day, has been told yet,' said Coroner
Peter NJ. Hoffman last night, "and
there are certain persons who can tell
much that has been left unsaid We
will get to the bottom of the whole
affair if possible"
Many conflicting statements have
been 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
of them. she said, is John G.. Fetzer,
millionaire, in whose office the shooting
took place, and the other is s. w. Tan
ner, clerk at downtown hotel. Both
men denied that story.
lu her story, told to Police Inspector
Patrick LAWN, Mrs. Young said she
feared that Rigdon IS original intention
gether 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 IS discovery that she had written a
letter to Mr.. Fetzer was the immediate
cause of the tragedy Inspector LAWN
sand. "She also insisted that Rigdon
had threatened to take the life Of
Fetzer day or so before the shooting
and that Fetzer had sent her word, fFor
God s sake, see Rigdon and straighten
this out
Feared to Go Alone.
in Mr.. FetZer's offices after I had
agreed to go there the woman said,
SO | took my sister with me. When
Rigdon came in, / showed him a letter
and told him he had been prosecuting
me- That was about all that was said
as far as she was able to tell, - con-
cluded the police official
"She said that Rigdon remarked,
Well, l suppose that you don't want
dropped his head In his hands and then
reached for his gun in 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
mis- own head and fired.
"Fetzer," according to the woman,
was in the room and heard all the con-
versation. He left when Rigdon
reached for the revolver, according to
our investigation of tho circumstances.
"The letter that Mrs. Young says
she showed when she upbraided Rigdon
was one which he had written to 5. w.
Tanner, clerk at the hotel, in which
Rigdon had cast reflections upon the
character of Mrs. Young. She said
that the letter had been written by
RiGdon during fit of jealousy some
time ago, when she was stopping at the
hotel She asserted that Tanner had
given the letter to her as soon as he
received it
What the Mother Says.
The mother Of the two women went
to Evanston to live about three weeks
ago. She says her name is Mrs. Oscar
band, who had been in the Norwegian
diplomatic service at Washington and
London. died six years ago in the Eng
hsh capital.
"We came to Chicago at the request
of my daughter, Mrs. Young, three
weeks ago." she said, 'tMr Rigdon
and she arranged for the lease Of this
house. / know that Mrs. Young had
been employed by him as private Sec
years and has travelled all about the
west with him on his business mis-
sions.'
The mother said that Mrs. Young was
married ten years ago to Alexander
Young, New York attorney, and they
separated about three years ago. She
said Young now was living in New
York or Philadelphia. After the sep
aration. she said, her daughter became
office in New York that she met Rig
don.
Mrs. Troiman said that since her
husband g death Mrs. Young had sup
ported herself, her daughter, Theresa,
90 years old: another daughter. Matilda,
16 years old, and her son, Walter, 1S
years old. All three of her children and
Mrs. Young reside with her, she said,
"After my husband 8 DEATH she
said, eve moved from London to
Washington and lived for time in
Dupont Circle and at 1884 Ninth street,
Two years ago we moved to New York
and lived on One Hundred and Thirty
fifth street.
According to the mother. hor daugh
ter Theresa attended convent in
Washington until recently, and tho
other daughter. Matilda, was in a Cath
olic school in Wisconsin.
Daughters Denial
While the widow was telling her
story Theresa arrived at the residence.
She at once dismissed all interviewers |
md announced that all the information |
which had boen given by Mrs, Troiman
was incorrect;
t'Her story was arranged lust for
the newspapers to GET she said. You
had better not believe what you have
been told.'
The young woman continued that her
own name was Mary Theresa Turner
and that her half sisters Is maiden name
been married, is a widow, and refused
to give her married name. She de-
clared that Rigdon was a distant rela
tive Of Miss or Mrs, Young and had
lived with the family when they lived
in New York and other cities. To &C.
count for the two names she declared