Arizona republican., 1913-07-23
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Under Sheriff Catches a Drink-Crazed Man With Firearm Who Was Hunt. ing for His Wife - Had Threatened Her Life

Quick work on the part of Under Sheriff Billy Woolf prevented trag :. edy last evening. About o'clock last night the sheriffs office was notified that a man known as George had told some of his friends that he had stolen4 gun for the purpose of killing al man whom he said was trying tor steal his wife. Woolf went to thea place where the man had made the threats and found him in a slightly
 intoxicated ConditionA He asked ehe man if he was carrying a gun, and was answered with indignant denials, although the butt of the gun was in plain view, protruding from the waist band of his trousers. Woolf removed the gun and took the man to the county jail where he was aCcOmmo- dated with an apartment for the night. The man gave his name as G. c. Mehring, and denied making any threats. He excused his conduct by asking Sheriff Jeff Adams what he would do under the alleged@4ike cir cumstances.
 The gun found on the man is a .3S-caliber mounted a A frame. This combination makes a gun that
 
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 Mehring has been married about ten months and during that time, it is alleged, he has treated his wife with every indignity that a drink. crazed man can devise. The couple were married at the home of the wife, 1905 West Jefferson street, and left immediately after the ceremony for Cananea, Mexico, where Mehring said he had employment. As soon he arrived in the town, it is claimed, he started drinking to excess, and soon made life unbearable for his wife. During one of his drinking spells he is said to have told his friends that one of the men supposed to have been killed by a stray bullet during one of the skirmishes that occurred near the famous mining town was actually killed by him in revenge for fancied wrongs.
 Seeing the condition that her hus- band was drifting into. and fearful of the trouble it might mean to her, Mrs. Mehring persuaded her husband to come back to Phoenix. She hoped for improvement, but has been griev- ously disappointed, as it is claimed the man rapidly drifted from bad to- worse. and finally his wife has been forced to go out to work and turn the earnings over to him.
 Conditions so unbearabI caused the wife to separate, it is said, from her husband for a time. On his promises to reform, she went back to him, but he did not live up to his promises. Three times the wife left him, and three times she went back. Three weeks ago she left him, and has since refused to have anything to do with him. it is said. During the past three weeks, it is claimed. Mehring has made many threats both against her life and person, Stating his intention to disfigure her permanently.
 Last night about 6:30 o'clock Meh- ring met his wife upon the street while he was intoxicated and asked her once more to come back and live with him. She told him before wit nesses that she had already been back three times, and he had faileds to keep his word and this time the separation was final. After cursingt her, he made the remark to her that-l she had better be very careful, and when she asked him what he meant. I he said, Watch out
 It is supposed that following this converse ton with his wife Mehring 1 went to the Higley horse market andt got the gun. While he was there he1 asked one of the men staying therej to loan him his bicycle. but was re fused. He then went along Wash I ington street east and waited in al doorway for his wife to pass on herj way home from work but was for-5 tunately prevented from carrying outi his threats by the quick action of Under Sheriff Woolf. l
 Mrs. Mehring is said by those who know her well to be very ladylike | person and has borne a splendid char acter, and the charges made by herI husband are entirely without fOun I dation- I
 Mehring has been in trouble before for carrying gun, and he was rel