Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-03
Wronged Husband Assaulted by Wife's Paramour and
 Wife Struck by Bullet.
SCALES IS HELD IN
 BONDS FOR HEARING.
Alleges Narrowing Tale of De- struction of His Home by David Todd Ending in Fight Between the Two Men,

s. A. Scales shot his wife Sunday night with a 32-caliber Richardson re yolyer. the ball taking effect in the woman's hip. The shooting occurred at the scales home, on O. K street in this. clty, anu yas the direct result, says Scaies' of improper relations that have ex, isted betxeen his wife and one David Todd a roomer at the Scales home, and a carman in one of the mines here.
 The trouble immediately preceding the shooting, as related by Scales, was brought about by an attack raade on him by Todd when he (Scales) came home. from his work. Scales alleges that Todd struck him in the face, driving him from one room to an other. Scales then procured a reVei' yer. which he kept in his kitchen, re- turning to the fray determined to oe- fend himself to the end.
 Returning to the front of the house Scales cooked his weapon, the shoI which wounded his wife following in- n,ediately thereafter.
 Scales alleges that the shooting was entirely acidental, his weapon being discharged involuntarily. Mrs. Scales, who stood in the doorway of the room where the shooting took place, was in the path of the wild shot and sus- tained A serious wound in the hip as A result of which she now lies at hef home under the surgeons care
 Scales was placed in the branch county Jail Sunday evening oy Con stable Jack White. Yesterday ms bend was fixed at $500, but up to 8 late hour last night he had failed 10 furnish the amount required by Jus. tice Murphy.
 David Todd, the other man In me case. is a carman employed at the Holbrook shaft of the Copper queen and is little known in Bisbee. Ac cording to the story told by scales Todd has openly defiied the Scales home and brazenly threatened to take ] Mrs. Scales away from her husband Saturday night the trouble al the Scales home over the afair assumed such a boisterous mien that o1ncer Jay wiimoth was called in. lie eau tioned the inmates of the place to DC more quiet in their demeanor, or ne would arrest all concerned
 It is probable that the calling oI the officer incensed Todd to such an extent that he attacked Scales, II Scales story is true, at the first op portunity.
 The officers say that the Scales home has borne an unsavory reputa ton for some time, owing to the na grant acts alleged to have been com mitted there. but until Saturday n' disturbance served to give the ofn cers an opportunity to take them t' task. It is also said that in the In mediate neighborhood of the Scale home are other houses where men an' women live in open defiance of th' Edmunds act.
 Scales yesterday made length! statement, reviewing his troubles since learning of his wife's alleged II fidelity.
 Todd, the reported instigator of tn trouble, could not be found. M charge has been preferred agains him.
 Mrs Todd yesterday refused t make any statement and exhibited 1 display of temper when asked fol a newspaper interview.
 Scales hearing on the charge of as sault with a deadly weapon will ccn up before Justice Murphy Friday