Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-29
PRINCIPALIN
DIVORCE SUIT
SLAINBYMAN
Emma GhYs Killed in Her
Apartments in East
Moline.

1E-=. Emma Ghvz. during recent
weeks the central figure in the most
sensational divorce case ever brought
TO tr5aI IN Rock Island county was
shot and killed Ln her East Moline
. apartment at 1915 last night by John
. A Holmes. chief uatehman at tine
MarzellIea plant. who accused her OF
tamDering with the morals OF q wom-
an whom he claims Is his common law
wife but whom he has heretofore said
was his niece.
70 one witnessed the shooting,
which occurred in rooms above the
saloon of Peter GhEs. Thirteenth
street and Thirteenth avenue One
shot was 6red the bullet piercing the
wouau= heart.
The murder ended the career of
woman whose sensational divorce trial
has been the absorbing subject OF gos-
sip I'M East Moline for weeks. The di-
yaree decree had never been entered.
IT was learned today. though Mr. and
Mrs Ghgz had been separated for
months. Mrs. Ghvs had apartments
above her husband S. saloon although
they were not living together
Distribution of more than SS0,009
. IN property was involved in the divorce
proceedings and the murder, commit
led before the decree had been entered,
a5II probably result i'm another weird
legal ranEle- Already batteries CT Raw
EerE have been engaged by the peo-
Die involved
Held On Murder Charge.
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Police have already found EIscrep-
aHc#a= ia Holmes story no revolver
was found En- Rrs Elvs. hand. nor
near her body Ear revolver was T
found ia she drawer Of a dresser ln .
bedroom so feet away ron the
bathroom. where the body vas dis
covered
Police believe that Mrs. Ghys was
shot as she stood i'm the open door of
the bathroom. instead Of at the top Of.
the stairs for the body had fallen /.
against the bathroom door from tie H.
side forcing il almost shut
The bullet pierced the heart ana
then took downward course. fndi-
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level with the victim or above her. .
Holmes statement that he was on the
stairs and that she was al the SOP of .
the stairway does not fl i'm with +Aet
testimony Of physicians as to the
course of the bullet
Questioned bv police today ragard- +.
ing his relations with Mrs Garrison F
EFofrraz said that ra had ALWAYS F.
raz=a3 her off as ms niece hat fhsf
III reality she was not related Ia him
but had lived with hfm. under cont
tract. as hiss common law wife.
nanfos eEo ffva9 with ufa,
s-rs- Garrison who IS Young To-
man Of 80 or IS years denied she had I
ever lived WITH Holmes as ms com
mon law "lI7 aHaeF contract. 81 late
eHee OF contract 10 That erect She
said she had kept mouse for hmm since f
1913
Two police officers FatroLmen +
Willie and Eorett. were 1u Ghys SAL
loon on police business when the
shooting occurred They rushed up
the stairway and met Holmes de-