The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-21
DECLARES HE SHOT
IN SE[F-DEFENSE
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which is in the same premises, and
dropped Mt the feet of Mrs. Sarah
Taufer, who was in charge of the laun-
dry office. She screamed and tainted.
Miss Eloisc McCaw, Sorensen's assist
ant, stood three feet away from him as
the pistol fire went on, The two women
and the two deputy sheriffs were the
only actual witnesses of the shooting,
though scores of people, attracted by
the preliminary quarreling and the ar
rest of McGillis g assistant a few min
utes earlier stood in front of the shop
and heard the revolver fire. l.. /. Bailey,
419 Second avenue, Waterloo, was In
the store when Sorensen drew his gun,
but fled at the first shot,
I McGillis was still alive when Deputy
Sheriff Steele and J. n. Freshman
picked him up. He seized Steele by
the arm and asked if the officer
thought he was going to die. A sec
ond later he became unconscious and
died moment after arriving at the
emergency hospital at the city Jail.
| His brothers, Charles and Abraham
McGillis, saw him breathe his last, and
had to be taken away by friends, so
great was their grief.
Widow Soon on Scene.
| NlIs. -hCplIllc, WluOW OF tue sldlu
man, reached the iewelrv shop five
minutes after the shooting, on her
way 10 her home in the Santa Ana
apartments, 34l East Second South
street. AS she made her way through
the dense throng that had gathered,
she heard her husband g name pass.
ing among the crowd and something
| about murder.
"What has happcned7' she asked
anxiously of a stranger.
Tommy McGilEs has been killed, ,"
came the answer.
Mrs. McGillis screamed aud would
have fallen TO the sidewalk had not
several friends of her husband, who
recognized her. taken her in charge
1t was with utmost difficulty that she
was restrained from entering the shop
where McGillis was dying. The am
bulance had not arrived yet. She was
assured that her husband was only
slightly wounded and that he would
be all right. Before the ambulance
came she was taken to the Semloh
hotel and placed under the care of a
physician. The final news that her
,, husband was dead WAS not broken TO
] her until late last night.
Complicated Case.
The incidents that led TO the shoot
+ ing were many and complicated Sew
d eral days ago McGillis and his part.
, ner II. l.. Heiue, rented the show win.
: dow of the Curtis Hat company, 50
East Second South street, Immediately
. adjoining Sorensen' s jewelry shop, and
. put In a display OF a new patented
q form of cuff and collar buttons. Ne
ellis was the demonstrator. standing
: IN the window be went through the
: usual pantomime demonstrations to
Nml1 h.. 4.
over the ordinary kind. Hcine acted
as salesman. They had succeeded IN
drawing large crowds in front Of the
window, and. IL rs stated, had been
clearing an average OF $50 n day in
the business.
/ The first disputc arose YESTERDAY
morning when an assistant of McGillis
began selling the buttons on the side
| walk. Sorenscn warned McGiliis tina,
this constituted violation OF the Ii
ceuse ordinance. The assistant Wa:
withdrawn and the sales confined tC
the interior of the hat store. Late in
the. afternoon McGillis instructed hi,
assistant, Robert Collier. TO min
Gle with the crowd and TO enter
the store occasionally and purchase In,
buttons Collier at 5 O'Clock in th,
afternoon began buying the button,
IN halt dozen lots and took 10 selling
them. apparently on his own account
on tho sidewalk.
Sorensen. perceiving the action o.
has rival. employed a man in the crow,
20 buy a pair Of buttons from Collie
as evidence. Having done this b.
called the police and had Collier ar
rested for violating the license ordi
dance. Sergeant B. ID. Sierfus too
him 90 the police station. McGiIlis lef
the demonstrating window and went I
, the station and put up IS bail for Co
her : appearance in court.
Ten minutes after leaving the polio
station McGillis was shot He r,
turned at once to bis place of business