The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-06
DOMESTIC TROUBLES
SHOWN IN EVIDENCE
Prisoner Claims He Shot Wife
Thinking That She Was
a Burglar

Wellington, Kas., Apsil 6 The
coroner's jury that Investigated the
death of Mrs Cora vanderyoort
charged June Vanderyoort with
his wife The verdict was;
I'VE find that Mrs Vandcrvoort
came TO her death by a bullet inten-
tionally discharged from a revolver
in the hands Of her husband, June
Vanderyoort.
Mrs. VaDderyoort was killed Sun
day night at her farm home near
Perth According to one Of tie
stories iold by M VandeYoort, he
shot her by mistake, awakening sud
denly and seeing her In the room, he
ihougbi She was burglar. He said
that She had her nine-monthsold
baby In her arms at the time.
II was on circumstanral evidence
hat the jury rendered their verdict.
Mr. Nandelvoor; said he was in bed
when he fired The fatal shots, ,Judg-
ing from the manner in which the
bullets struck the wall behind the
he'd, the jurors decided that the slay-
or must have been standing away
from The bed and his wife must have
been lying on the bed Neither did
the Jurors think that she was holding
the baby in her arms when She was
killed.
The consensus Of opinion is that
She surely was on the bed when she
was killed because the wounds on
her wrist hip and through her heart
bled profusely and while the linen
on the bed was soaked with blood
there was no blood on the Aool
where there would have been had she
been shot while walking the floor
with the child, according to her hus
bands story.
While the alleged murderer still
s,eadfastly maintains his innocence
he has already told coniictine
stories, ii is said
It was neighborhood gossip that
the couple were having domestic
troubles, the breach between them Il
said to have been caused by a MAJ
named Stoneknocker 1t is said thai
Mrs. Vanderyoort had told her gir
friends that her husband had made
objections TO the man. He had onc'
worked on their farm and after hC
left the place, it is said that he pat
visits to the farm to see Mrs Van
/ degvoort.
The prisoner will he given a pre-
/ limnary hearing Thursday He hai
I been placed in the Wellington Jail b,
Sheriff c. r. Holiday.
To the coroner's jury he told tho
/ following story:
They had gone TO bed about
o'clock Sunday evening, he said
AbUut . o'clock he heard some nCis,
in the house and started to get up
bul his wife told him not to so on
/ Of the room. for in case anybody wa'
I In the house they would probably
shoot him As measure of protec
tion. NanderYoOrt then went TO thu
dresser and got his gum placing /
under his pillow For some time ey
crything was quiet, and he fol
asleep He was suddenly awakened
abou ! o'clock by another noise il
he house and as he raised his hcal
he saw in the dresser mirror The re
Election Of a body moving in th'
room. In his alarm, he had no 9th
er thought than tha a burglar hai
entered ilia house and he immcdi
ately reached for his gun aud besal
10 shoot. A body fell across hi
legs ON the he'd ana he shouted &
his wife. kid, I've shot somebody
lie then lighted lamp and discoy
crod the dead body Of his wifc lynl
across the foot of the bed
The only other witnesses examined
at the coruher's inquest were th'
members of the Collins family.
Miss Naomi Collins was entertain
ing friend, Charles Huntington o
Caldwell, Sunday evening They has
returned from church a short tim
before, ard were still seated in tn
buggy in front Of the Collins hous
when VandefyOort came running 4
! tell them the story of The tragedy
4 Nander1oOrt was wearing only
shir, and a pair Of overalls not hay
ing taken he time 10 get his hat
shoes or coat.
The young people showed no in
clinalion to go to the place where h
had told his story, SO Vandervoor
Jumped into he buggy. took up III
lines, and started to drive them Z
his home Miss Collins was fright
ened aud said she did not want {,
10. but Vanderyoort said somebod.
would have 10 take care Of the bah.
and Kept on driving toward hi
/ noise AS they had left he Collin
hoMe the young woman had calle,
10 her mother, who followed III
buggy
The eollinses told the jury tha
they found Ms Vanderyoort's bod,
4 lying on the bed. There was III
blood on the body excep. a little OF
the head, buf the baby was spattere,
over with blood
The shooting was done with Ss
caliber Harrington and Richard
revolver instead of a shotgun. a
VAS stated IN The reports Of tho mur