Arizona republican., 1914-04-09
AFTER
 HUSBAND FELL
Witnesses Say Girl-Wife Shot Victim as He Writhed on Ground-Tes- tify Mulanax Was De- voted to His Slayer

An argument over the ownership of Whisk- broom brought to a crisis the long draWn-out quarrel which resulted in the killing of Claude Mulanax by his youthful wife, Mamie, according to testimony given yester- day during the inquest before Cor oner Johnstone The cOroner's jury in it's verdict did not go beyond stating that the man came to his death from gunshots fired by his wife.
 It was a devoted husband, who, re- alizing that he must lose his wife because he had lost her love, went
 to his death Tuesday night, accord ing to MT and Mrs. J. H. White, owners of the White ranch at Ingle- side, on which the Mulanax couple lived. Mulanax, they said, had left instructions to them that his wife's baggage was to be turned over to her if she returned that evening and he was absent.
 Added to the tragedy yesterday came the revelation that the 19-year- old wife, after having shot her hus-
 band four times, sent another bullet into his body as he lay writhing on the ground. Five bullet wounds,
 three in the legs and two in the
 abdomen, were inflicted by the woman.
 The story of Mrs. White at the
 inquest yesterday told of Mulanax's l,,if tA h iG family. On the night previous to
 the killing. it was said, the young
 wife slept alone in the fields, with a
 butcherknife on her person. She re- turned in the morning and packed up her things. The stage came and she ran out to board it.
 Claude came in from the field and begged her to stay testified Mrs. White. He asked for just one weeks trial. He said he thought he could fix things up if she would give him a chance. But she went away. Then Claude came over to us and told us that if man came for her things we were to give them to him. It was not long after Mrs.
  that trouble began. We heard them talking, and finally we heard words about the whisk- broom.
 You can't take that said Claude. speaking about broom and a few other toilet articles belonging to him, which his wife had packed in her trunk. The next thing we heard was the wife crying, Don't you come near me
 Then we heard the shots. I saw Claude run from the tent He fell over and cried, Think what you have done to me- Soon after we heard more shots, just how many were fired I do not remember" Mrs. White told the coroner's jury that she had expected there would be a shooting in the morning, be- cause the woman had repeatedly said she would kill her husband if he threatened to interfere with her The witness declared that so far as she | knew, Mulanax was good husband. He worked in the fields all day, she said. and in the evening he helped his wife with the work around the tent. If Mulanax ever threatened his | wife, it was not within her hearing, said Mrs. White
 C. A. McCready and Freeamn Fike, who drove to Ingleside with Mrs Mulanax, testified that the woman seemed happy as a lark as she drove out to her home with a revolver in her possession.
 Why" said Fike 'she began hum- ming soon after we started and bret l ty soon we were all singing togeth- | er.' Both men also told of Mrs Mulanax shooting once or twice after firing the first fusillade into her husband.
 McCready said he heard the hus- band jump out of his bed after the argument over the whisk-broom and also heard her shout at her husband
 to keep away, just before she began shooting.
 J. H. White testified that Mrs. Mulanax was of a childish tempera- l ment. He said he believed that she was abnormal, judging from her ac- tions.
 Once" said White, "her husband
 told me that she had asked him what he would do if she admitted
 that she loved another man Claude | told her he would kill the man. Soon | after that he found an envelope aJ- dressed to man, but I do not thinl,
 there was anything in it. That was
 one cause osi the quarrel during the 1 recent weeks"
 Mrs. Mulanax is locked up ill the
 woman's cell at the county jail and visitors are not allowed to See her She has retained attorneys, who have 1 advised her nGt to discuss the shoot