The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30
HUSBAND AYERS
WIFE SHOT HIM
Martin Abeytia Receives Bullet
in Shoulder and Spouse
Is Arrested.
GUN TAKEN FROM HER
BY OFFICER LEICESTER
Woman. However, Denies the
Charge; May Not Be
Prosecuted.

Charged b. her husband, Martin
Abevtia with attempting to Kill him
and Incidentally with biGamy as we'll
Irene Abevtis. a prepossessing woman
of 3s wears, is behind the bars at tne
poljce station The husband has 30
caliber bullet imbedded somewhere ID
his shoulder as a result of the domeaoe
unpleasantness which came TO heau
Yesterday afternoon at the Warena
rooming house. 2+ls West Third oou'n
street. about supper time A..
kbevtia and his wife have been nv,
;no 81 West Second South street and
until recently both were employed a'
Hotel Utah. the woman as chan,neI
maid and the man as housemsn' nle
Abeytia declared that her husband was
To- familiar with other women ana
when she left the hotel demanded ina.
he 90 with her. He refused and says
thar she several times came up 70 tne
hotel where he was working ano .Iiea
70 make 2 disturbance, once attempting
10 pull q razor on him. A.,
Tbey had. however, despite all the
disputes, been living together up 70
Yesterday afternoon when fa.roinan
Leicester was called into the Watsna
and IOnn0 SOtflid Win {"
shoulder and the woman with re-
volver in her hand. The man was taken
70 the police station and has wouno
dressed by Dr. Sprague. HIS INJURY 10
not serious.
Bigamy Charged.
While in the hospital Abeytla told a
story of his wifc's peculiarities whlGn
She since has strenuously denied ne
ssvs thai she has another hushana
whom she married while alreaay ms
wife He saws that he was married 10
the woman, who had been divorced from
q man named Stevens, in Los Angeles
three years and half ago She leIs
him, he says. eight months ago apo
went 10 Evanston, Wyo., WhgIe sne
married man named W. Z. JENKINS;
She was never, Abeytia said, divorced
from hin, and therefore has two nus
bands undivorced besides Stevens, from
whom she secured divorce five years
ago. .<;,+od
in going to the Hotel Utah and TOR ne
apparent cause demanded that he leave
his work there. He became tired Oh
this and finally told her to. go 10 neI
other husband. He says that ms wlie
was too giddy for him and he often
advised her TO settle down. when ne
determined TO abandon her TO jenkins
The shooting took place in the room
Of Ben Stevens, a son of Mrs. Abeytia,
by her first husband, Abeytia says
that he had gone there to see his wife g
brother and son and ask them TO re-
monstrate with her if they had any IN
fluence. When he entered the room
she swore at him, he says, and with an
epithet grabbed gun and fired two
shots at him The first missed and the
second lodged in his shoulder, passing
through the heshy part al the back and
remaining somewhere under the arm
Her brother and son sprang toward her
and restrained her and the policeman
who heard the shot, arrived a minute
after.
Mrs. Abeytia and her son, who gave
his name as Ben Stevens, were taken
in charge, the latter being held as q
witness. The, woman s brother, whose
name is said TO be A. E. Hubbard, was
not arrested.
Woman Denies Shooting.
Mrs. Abeytia denies that she did the
shooting but says that there was s
scuffe in which the shooting was done
but by whom she does not know. Thl:
in the face of the statements to the
police of the husband. the brother anG
son as well as that of the policeman
who took the revolver from her.
The woman denied the story of &
marriage to Jenkins. as told by th'
husband She SAYS that jenkins wai
merely friend and that she was mar
ried but twice, once 20 Charles Stevens
whom she divorced five years ago, anS
who is now in Nevada, and once Il
Abeytia. She says that her husban,
was in the habit of annoying the cham
bermaids at the Hotel Utah and tha
she had left the house because of hi
conduct, trying 10 get him to leave too
Abeytia gives his age as 81 and hi
wife as 3S years. Both are swartb,
of compelXion and look and talk NOR
like Spaniards or Mexicans than Amer
icnns, as they say they are Abeyti
says that he has lived most of his lif
in California and that he is q iewele
by trade, but went 10 work in tn
Hotel Utah as houseman as that wa
the only employment open TO him. Mr..
Abeytia says that she has worked i
the Alhambra and Hayward in Los Ar
geles, from which city she came 10 Sal
Lake.
Abeytia does not desire to prosecut
his wife because OF her small children
She has had FIVE children by her frs
husband, the oldest now married an
the youngest years old, No charp
has yet been made against Mr.
Abeytia.