The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-18
OFFICERS BELIEVE
YOUTH SHOT HIMSELF
Young Mans Story of En-
counter With Iighwayman
Given Little Credence.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
OGDEN. Sept iI.-Althoueh Young
Theodore Faust. who Is under treatment
at the Dee hospital for Il bullet wound in
his left breast sticks 10 the story that
he was shot by hiehwayman ut Tie
corner of Twenty-third street and Tyler
hvcnue last Thursday night. evidence
has been discovered which lends 10 the
theory that the boy shot himself. whether
accidentally or Intentionally, has not yet
been determined,
Chief of Police j. T. Browning stated
today that neither he nor any member OF
the department had been advised Of the
shooting. and did not learn that the boy
was In the hospital until the story
reached the newsps pcrs through tho boys
mother. The chief of police and Captain
OF Police {. {; Brown started an invcsii-
CATION Immediately and learned today
that the boy had borrowed IS calber
iycr johnson revolver from John Edgrcn.
friend of the family who lives one block
step-father Thursday afternoon about
900 o clock. one hour afterwards the
ocy applied al the Dee hospital for treat
mcnt. stating 10 the nurse that he had
been shot through the breast by n high
wayman and exhibiting Il bullet wound in
MS brcst which extended TO the LETT arm
where The bullet passed out Despite the
fact that the boy had told the hospital
with dangerous hielwayman. those in
charge of that institution proceeded 10
call a doctor 10 attend his injuries with
out taking time To notify the police de-
partment. Up 10 today no report OF the
boys condition Was given 10 the police
department by the hospital authorities,
allowing the hichwayman, il the boys
story is true, three days in which to get
out of the state. From inquiries made
at The home OF the boys $tcp-father,
where he lived. il was Termed that an
empty shell was found at the corner of
Tyler avenue and Twentytlird street by
tho boys brother the following day. This
shell was turned over 20 the police and
was found TO be an exact duplicate OF
the other shells which were in the re-
Nolvcr when the boy borrowed it from
Edsrcn. In asking for the loan of tho
revolver, young Faust told Edgden that
he had seen a stTanGc man near his
home and he did not want To take
chance Of helng held up as he had 10 so
out that night.
"My mother told me not to take the
gun said Faust when helwas placed on
the operating table mt the hospital, yet
he had stuck TO his story that he had
hccn held up. His step-fathcr Thomas
Storey. lives at 2l5S Tyler avenue. a short
distance from where the mysterious shoot
Ing took place. While the police refuse
10 talk about the cIcws in their posses
sion. IL seems TO bc the general opinion
that The boy shot himself fpr some un-
known reason. Another circumstance
which may throw light on the affair and
which Is being investigated is that
Mrs. Kirk, A woman living In the neigh
borhood who attempted suicide by shoot
Ing herself a month ago and was under
the care OF surgeons ut the Dee hospital
for several days Afterwards. has been "A
frequent visitor at the hospital 10 see The
wounded man.