The herald., 1896-01-31
SHOT HIS WIFE
Deputy Marshal B0tello Points a Pistol
With Unpleasant Results
He Claims That lie Did Not intend TO Shoot
the Woman and That 1t Was
an Accident

About 9 o'clock yesterday telephone
message was received at the police station
from Deputy United States Marshal Thos.
+. Botello saying that he had accidentally
shot his wife in the right thigh with re-
volver and asking that physician be sent
to his house, at 30 Wilhart street. Or.
Bryant, Detective Goodman and Officer
Long hurried to the place. The woman
was found lying OH bed. An examina-
lion showed that the ball, fired from
forty-fve Colts. had passed through the
fleshy part OF the woman's leg, escaping
the bone and passing out into the board
partition and from there into an adjoining
room The wound, which was not danger
Gus, was dressed by Dr.. Bryant.
Mrs. Boteilo asserted ~ sitively that her
husband had shot her deliberately as ne
had repeatedly threatened to do before
On the other hand Mr. Botello strongly
maintained that the gun had been d's-
charged accidentally ana he had Intended
no harm TO the woman. While it was
rather difficult to reconcile these two very
contrary statements, one fact was evident:
the accident or whatever IL could be called,
was the result of quarrel between the
| pair. Mrs. Botello claimed that her hus-
band has mstreated and abused her uu-
ing she arose to prepa. e breakfast and he
soon got up, too. He began quarr-ling
and the dispue finally ended by his draw
ing his revolver and deliberately shooting
her.
A very different tale is related by Mr..
Botello, both as regards the affair and the
causes for the difference between the
woman and himself Mr.. Boteilo states
that on " edneslay evening his wife came
home very intoxicated In the morning he
| arose and started to prepare breakfast.
He brushed his coat ard vest and, hanging
them on chair, went into he yard. When
he returned he saw his wife going through
his clothes. She found bench warrant in
one pocket. and, taking the psper out,
acted very much as if she intended de-
stroying it. AS this would have been con-
tempt of court, and he alone would have
been held responsible, Boielio rushed in
and took the paper away from her. She
abused him in an outrageous manner.
Botelio at last started for he Office, but
discovered that his badge was missing.
returning, he began turning over the pill
lows on the bed to see if it was not there.
While thus engaged his wife made vicious
stab at him with pair of scissors. He took
them away from her though and threw
hem under the bureau. She attach ed
him again with case-knife. but it fell be-
hind a trunk. She grabbed the curling
iron. Botello by this time thought that he
would take hand in the fight, so standing
in the hallway by the door he pulled his
revolver and cooking It leveled the weapon
at his wife. commanding her to stop. In
his excitement, he says, the weapon WAS
accidentally discharged. He says he did
not intend to shoot the woman and very
aptly calls attention to the fact that it
would have been an easy thing to have
killed her at such close range.
Mr.. botello says that his wife is addicted
! to the use of intoxicants and she has been
| a detriment to him for years. causing his
| discharge from responsible positions he has
| held. Marshal Covarrubias speaks very
| highly of his officer. No arrests were
made by the police. The woman declared
she would swear to complaint as soon as
| pOssble.