Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-16
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 will need explans ton is that when the officers arrived there were four glasses on the table in the room where the | tragedy occurred.
 Officers Wilmoth and Doyle testi- fled to going to the wine room Ionow- l ing the shot and being informed by woman outside that Coleman had fired lit They saw Smith lying in the hall way, telephoned for Q doctor and then | hurried to Coleman's house. When placed under arrest he was asked if he had shot Smith, and said that ne had.
 ! Drs. Diver and Edmundson testi- fled that when they reached the wine room in response to call, Smith was dead. Death had resulted from inter nal bleeding.
 David Felshaw. who worked with Smith as q carman, testified that he had never heard Smith say anything about trouble with Coleman. smith was "A years of age, and he had known him since a boy in the Gila Valley, where Smith was born.
 Mrs. Jennie Fox testified to hearing the fatal shot and seeing Coleman and bis wife leave the wine room. The evidence of Mrs Coleman was | the feature of the afternoon. The woman appeared entirely at ease, and rattled along with her story in the most unconcerned manner. It estab- fishes self-defense for Coleman, and | will doubtless be the basis upon which | h.. a-1 said she had known Hiram Smith for more tLan a year, and that during that time she had been intimate with ! him. After she married Coleman Smith continued to pay her attentions until il aroused the jealousy cf her husband. He warned Smith io stay away, and told him that if he did not 1 stay away from his wife he would kill him Smith told Coleman that as long as his wife was willing he would continue to go to see her. and that he was willing to take the consequences of his acts She said that Smith had ! told her of the threat on the part of her husband to kill him. and said that as long as she had no objections he would continue to come to see her. ] | about | o'clock she came down town and shortly afterward met up with Smith. They went at once to the wine room across the street from the 1 post office. At about S.S0 sne and Smith were still in the wine room. when she heard her husband in the hall She wanted to go out to him, | but Smith would not permit ner To do so. Smith then said that he was go- ! ing out in the hall and see Coleman. | She said not to go out of the room, as , he had no gun. but he insisted, saying that he was not afrad to face him, and that he would make him think he had la gun at any rate. She then said that she begged him not to leave the room. and says that she went so far as to turn out the light so that her husband would think thaT they had gone. Smith l got angry, and said that he would go out in the hall and see the matter through Smith pushed her back against the wall, and said that he was going to get a gun, at the same tune telling her that this was the first time that he had gone away from his room without it.
 He then opened the door and met my husband at the door," she contin ued. "and he put his hand around on his back pocket like he had gun, and the first thing I knew my husband pulled his gun and shot him | am certain that my husband shot him, as there was a light in the room and the hallway was lighted. I was stand ing right back of Smith when my bus band fired
 She said that she then caught nel husband bv the arm and asked him not to shoot her. He promised not to dc so. and they went to their home to gether. She took the pistol away from him and gave it to Georgia Nc | Bride. across the street. They re mained at home until the officers cam' to get her husband. Smith was soDe at the time of the killing. She haC sent him a note by Joe Miller ant asked him net to come around he again. as her husband had promised to kill him, but Smith was determin ed that he would not give her up.
 The coroner's jury returned yer
 dict as follows:
 I've find that Hiram Smith cam
 to his death by a gunshot wound in flicted by the hands of Chas. Coleman
 "GASTON SCHWOB.
 GEORGE C. HALL. "THOS. J. BUCK.
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