The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-04
UXORClDE IS CHARGED
DAN auNrxR PLACED IN JAIL
 AT TROY.
The Body of His Wife Exhumed ia Order That an Analysis of Contents of Stomach
 May Be Made.

A Troy. April t.--tspscial)-rn pursusnes Dan 0unter. for an investigation as to the cause of her death. the Probate Judge visited the vicinity where she resided and her body was taken up today for the puLross p cs nsv,ng her stomach sent to Yesterday evening Constable Freeman went before Justice Reeves of this city and swore out . warrant of arrest for the apprehension of Gunter. the husband of the dead woman, charging him with the murder of his wife. Sheriff Reeves went to the residence of Gunter this morning and arrested him and commit ted him to the County jail.
 .,l Inis .s.. evening at the tail MT. Guntsr by side at his mothers on the day be- fore his wife died at night. After din- ner they were seated for a while on the door steps. after which they went out cedar for about i've minutes. when his wife remarked that she must 70 to put ting out her guano She strewed guano during that day. and two of his brothers were doing the blowing. Gunter and his wheelbaFrow from his aoId place" to where he then lived, a distance of about . quarter of . mile. He was thus en- gagged during the day. His brother told him that his wife made frequent visits
  to the house the last time between and ( o'clock in the evening.
 She had just come to the. house when Gunter and little sister arrived with . bee-gum to a point behind the garden and about forty yards from the house. Gun ter passed by the house and saw his wife sitting on the kitchen door-steps with her face resting on her hands. He passed to where his brother was blowing and took his brothers blow and had plowed three uva1 rp hn rhay wife was heard screaming. His brother reached the house first and finding the doors shut and barred on the inside, burst one of them open and went in. calling to Mrs. Gunter to learn what was the mat ter. She asked him who he was and he told her it was John (brother to the hus- band.) By this time Gunter had grasped her hand, asking her what was the mat ter. She told him to go for her sister at Tarentum. He immediately sent his morning (Friday) between and 4 o'clock and was conscious until within few minutes before the breath left her.
 On being asked about the report that some time before his wifes death. he stated that. at his wife's request his mother had obtained from Henry Rugg some rough on rats. to put in eggs to poison dogs. During the day after his wifes death, he said his mother brought to him saucer which had been found behind a box in which had been what seemed to be mixture of salt and soda, with sugar or syrup and that small amount of this mixture wa ssticking to the saucer. He said to his mother that if she had not brought that stuff trough on rats) probably his wife would not have been dead. During that day he went to where the box containing the rough on rats was placed and 1t was where 1t had been all the time. He did not open the box to see whether any of the poison was missing.
 When further questioned as to whether his wife made any statement about what she had taken Gunter said that he asked her in the presence of the doctor what she had taken. and that she replied that she had taken some syrup, soda, cam phor and headache tablets. A box con taining about thirty-one headache tablets had been brought then about five or six of them had been taken, and there was only fifteen in the box after her death.
 Gunter said that Monday after his wife s death the previous Friday morning. a note was found in the corner of her trunk by him, his sister and his wifes sister. The note had been seen by his sister the night of his wife's death when searching for cloth in which to wrap hot irons, but thinking that it was bill for merchan- disc she gave it no special attention.
 The note addressed him as dear hus- band and stated that she did not resort to the rash act because of anything he had said or done, and asked him to please bury her between her two dead children. He stated that his mother was in pos session of this note.
 Mir. and Mrs. Gunter had no living children. and were not very far ad- vanced in years.
 Gunter Is Q man of rather unsavory reputation and Ia said to have been very cruel to his wife.
 MT. Stewart, husband of one oe the women who helped to dress Mrs. Gunter for burial. told the Probate Judge yes terday that Mrs. Gunter had blue stripes resembling bruises on the back and DOT tions of the legs about the width of her two fingers as if she had recently been whipped.
 Gunter positively declares his inno- cehce, and his willingness to have the matter fully investigated.