Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-17
SERIOUS CHARGE
IS MADE AGAINST
FORMER CONVICT
Enraged Husband Accuses
M. B. Murner of Criminal
Assault Following Story
Told by His Wife.

NJ. B. Murner, a paroled convict
from the state prison. released in
March of this year, is charged with
criminal assault, the complaint hav-
ing been sworn to this morning be-
fore Justice Adams by the husband of
the woman making the charge, a Mrs.
Remer.
Murner and Remer are both employed
at the old Boone dairy on the valley
road northwest of the city. Remer
and his wife live in a small house set
apart for them while Murner lived
and boarded with the family in charge
of the dairy ranch. Remer is a farmer
and consequently works through the
day and when he takes any time from
the place, is required to take it at
night.
Murner Is a mixer and does his
work very early in the morning,
which gives him a considerable portion
of. the day to dispose OF at his pleas
ure. 1t is said that he has spent much
of his day time at the home of Remer
while the latter was at work and tha'
he became very much smitten with
the charms of Mrs. Remer, with whom.
bors and the admissions of Mrs. Remer
she has taken frequent automobile and
buggy rides, while her husband has
been in Boise during the early part of
the evening. She admits that on We'd
nesday night he took her out riding
in an automobile, the trip extending up
to Barber dam, across the river and
back by South Boise and on out to the
fair grounds before the hour for which
he had paid expired. At the end of the
ride, Murner she says, hired a single
buggy and drove her home. She ar
rived home that night before her hus-
band did and she did not tell him of
the ride.
Last night, she says, Murner secured
a double rig and under the pretense u
driving her around to catch her hus-
band with another woman. he took her
out TO Pierce park. She failed to To-
cate her husband there and they came
back, driving out around by the foot
hill road and then on down through
town to the Natatorium, where she
again took look about for her hus
band, without locating him. She says
that Murner then told her of a vacant
Natatorium, where, he said, men fire.
quently went with other women and
he proposed taking her there. She says
it was while in this orchard that the
attack was made. She declares that
she screamed and he threatened to
choke her but that she did not desisL
in screaming but that he did not choks
her but did take the laprobe and put
an end of 1t over her mouth
Husband Arrived First.
Murner then drove her to her home at
the Boone ranch, but when she arrived
home this time, her husband had
reached home first. She Immediately
demanded to know where her hus-
band had been. He told her he had
been to the Natatorium. Mrs Remer
wanted to know who the woman was
that he was with 2nd told him that
Murner had told her about him and the
woman. Remer denied the accusation
and in turn demanded to know where
Mrs. Remer had been and it was then
that she made the accusation against
Murner.
Muner had engaged the team at a
local livery stable for only a short
uflNt. AbDuA q Glbth llllb llDiiliHB
the team reached the livery stable
without a driver, the lines having been
tied up and the team turned loose. 1t
showed no signs, however, of having
been driven hard at any time during
the night. no sweat being visible.
The officers had not been able to
locate Murner at a late hour today al
though it Is not believed he has made
any effort to get away, but IL probably
hiding from the wrath of the woman's
husband. He was sent to the peniten-
tiary two years ago on a charge of
grand larceny of a horse, the real cir
cumstances being, 1t is said, that he
and his wife's sister eloped, taking with
them a horse belonging to a relative.
He was charged with the theft of the
horse instead Of an offense growing
out of the elopement.
He established a good record at tho
prison and was paroled in March of
this year.
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