The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-10

WOMAN KILLS MAN;
THEN SHOOTS SELF
Double Tragedy Enacted in
Hotel; Frank Jones and
Marie Arthur Principals.

Frank Jones. bartender. is dead. and
Mare Arthur, who shot Jones. Is In a
critical condition at ST. Marks hos
pi,ai. suffcrInf from sclf-infilctcd
wound.
The woman shot Jones In room at the
Touraine hotel on E.as, Broadway at $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon, Then she
pressed the pistol against her breast and
fred again. falling forward. dangerously.
wounded. on the lifcicss body of the man
she had slain.
Jealousy is said to have been the mo-
tive for the shooting. Before she was
taken to the hospital the woman SAID
that She had qUaEreled with Jones be-
cause she believed he was in love with
another However. she said she nred the
shots only To 1righten him and had no
intention OF killing him.
Mrs. H. II. Bartlett. prop1etress or the
Touraine hotel. heard the shots and ran
from the office of tho hotel 10 the second
floor and learned from the roorners that
the shots had come from room occu-
pied by Jones and the woman. Mrs.
Bartlett summoned Dennis Murphy. the
clerk AZ the hotel. He tried the door,
and. finding II locked, opened 1t with
pass key.
on entering the room. Murphy found
Jones lying dead the bed and the
woman lying across his feet holding a.
smoking pistol in her hand. blood flowing
from her wound, She hysterically
screamed that Sno mad Killed Jones ana
She raised the pistol to her head as II TO
fire another shot. Murphy wrenched the
pistol from her hand and called to Mrs.
Bartlett to summon the police.
Within q few moments the police pa
troll, with Officers Conyers. Moore, Olson
and Anderson, arrived. The woman was
taken TO the emergency hospital at the
ponGf, boiiefe, >, station and Later 70 St Marks
Jones had been shot twice, through the
left side and through the leg The shot
through the left side Is believed TO have
penetrated the heart. causing instant
death
Jones came to Salt Lake from Butte
little more than a year ago Shortly
afterward Marie Arthur came to the city
and joined Jones al the Touralne hotel,
where they were registered as Frank
Jones and wife. Beth OF them had pre-
viously lived in Salt Lake. They are
said TO have lived together Tor the past
Jones formerly lived In Elsie, Neb..
where his mother, Mrs. John Hyatt. now
resides. He has brother, who is a
Jones had worked In the Warwick bar,
the Log Cabin and the Kenyon bar.
For the past few weeks he had not had
steady employment.
Marie Arthur told the police that her
home was in Topeka. Kan She said her
brother was n law student at Topeka
and her father Clergyman. Since COM
ing TO Utah she lived FOR time at Park
resort.
Shortly before 10 o'clock last night.
telegram was received by Chief OF Police
B, f, Grant from the father Of the
woman. Word had been telegraphed TO
him at Topeka, Kan. The message ran:
Please wire details of Marie Ar
thurs s difficulty a t my expense. Also
instruct me as 10 how | can. COM
inunicate with her by wire.
WILLIAM r. ARTHUR.
The wounded woman underwent an
operation OF four and one-h half hours
Duration after being taken to the .hospl-
tai, DR.. Hardie Lynch. who performed
the operation, found that the bullet had
penetrated the upper abdomen. splitting
the left lobe OF the liver, piercing the
stomach In two places and cutting the in
testines in six places The. bin nlet was not
found.
The patient recovered consciousness
after the operation and II is. believed that,
barring complications, she has a slight
chance TO recover, Before the operation
was undertaken, she expressed a desire
to live; speaking remorsefully OF her act.
She is 2S years OF age, and good looking
Jones was 80 years of age.