The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
TH0S. DOLAN SHOT BILL. HUGHES
Four: Shots all of Which Took Effect. We're Fired in Hughes Room
 in Memphis Hotel.

NIT. ]. ]. Hughes. 0f Haynes and Memphis, was arrested in Memphis Sunday night charged with the kill ing of Thos. Dolan. former jockey. bartender. etc, of that city.
 The following story of the tragedy is gleaned from the Commercial Ap- peal of Monday morning:
 Thomas Dolan was shot and in- stantly killed in the Cordova hotel at q o'clock Sunday night by ]. ]. Hughes. merchant at Haynes, Arkan- sas, with town residence at the Ora ham flats on Madison avenue. The shooting occurred in room No. 27 of the hotel which had been taken by Hughes early Sunday morning. Four shots were fired by Hughes from an old style 45-calibre. single action Colts revolver. All went true to the mark. One passed through the heart. one through the abdomen. one through the right arm and one through the left side of the neck. just below the ear.
 Hughes gave a statement to Capt. o. H. Perry, at the police station as to the cause of the shooting. He declared that Dolan was bad fellow, and had his diamond stud valued at S250 and refused to give it up, but said that when he got to the room with Dolan, the latter demanded so for the re- turn of the stud. This brought words from each and the shooting followed.
 I hated to have to do it, Capt. Perry said Hughes, but it was simply forced on me- l had been out two nights with him and he got my stud last night.
 When the representative of the Commercial Appeal asked him some questions about himself, he refused 10 talk further, and ended by saying that it would all come out later. He was asleep an hour after the shooting when Capt. Perry and the reporter went to interview him, but when aroused, recognized Capt. Perry, whom he had met before. When asked if he was not the same man who was robbed of a diamond stud on street car, about two years ago, Hughes said that he was, and that this was the second one to give him trouble in Memphis. He is connected with sev. eral prominent business concerns ir Memphis
 ENTERED HOTEL AS FRIENDS.
 Hughes and Dolan being the only persons in the room at the time, tht details of the shooting are :meager and depend entirely on what Hughe: says about it. The clerk at the hote says that he saw Hughes and Dollar come into the lobby and go immed lately up to the room a short whil, before the shooting. He did not pay much attention to them, but did no, see or hear anything that would indi cate that the men were anything but friendly. 4 few minutes later the shooting occurred
 A number of policemen were seated i'll the alley at the rear of the police station, which Is only a short dis. :ancs from the hotel Some of then thought that it was shots, and Ian tC the hotel. These were Sergt Condor and Patrolmen Soefker, Adams, Sanel and Henry. Sergt. COndon and Patfolman Soefker were the first tC reach the scene.
 After the shooting Hughes tele. l phoned the hotel of1ice from his room and asked that an officer be sent up saying that lie had Killed a man. When Sergt. Gondon and the patrol. man reached the hotel they met a negro porter running out after an of. ticer They hurried with him up tC l Hughes room. Dolan's body was lying near the bay window, on the floor by the side If the bed. which hid il from view at the door. As the of. tcers entered they saw Dolan lying in pool of blood dead
 D0lan was well known about town. He was formerly jockey, but grew i too heavy about six years ago. He rode for Thomas McHale, a Memphis race horse man, and won a loo to l shot al Montgomery Park on the Belle of Memphis. He tended bar al a number Of places over the city. His father, ban Dolan. is living. His brother, Emmett. is a stenographer for the assistant passenger agent of the Illinois Central Railroad He has a sister. wife Of (. J. Schneider, who conducts a grocery store at Alabama avenue and Hin street
 From the News Scimitar, arriving Tuesday morning, we take the fol- i lowing