El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-11
HILL DENIESHE
KILLED HIS WIFE
Says Entered Home and
Someone Opened Fire;
Told Of Crime, Cries.

Retaining CONSCIOUSNESS Friday at
ternoon. James Harry Hill. the Texas
& Pacific switch foreman. who shot
and killed his wife at their home on
Myrtle avenue Thursday afternoon and
then made an unsuccessful attempt to
end his own life. told DR.. Hugh Invite
that he remembered nothing about
shooting his wife When he became
conscious. Hill asked DR.. White what
had happened and the physician told
him. Hill denied shooting his WIFE
saying that when he entered his home
someone Opened fire on him and that he
was shot This is the last he says he
remembers. Dr. White says Hill broke
down and cried when he was told he
had killed his wife
SAYS Act Contemplated.
That Hill had contemplated com
hitting the act for several days, is the
belief of Mrs. J. S. p. Garfield, sister
inIaw Of the murdered woman, who re-
sides next door TO the Hill residence.
vOlver last week and that sh was then
firmly convinced he intended murder
ing his wife. and warned her
Last week. Hill returned home with
a pearl handled revolver, saying he
had won IL at rattle, said Mrs. CAT
field. but / did not believe him and
thought that he bought the gun TO
kill his wife and / told her so. He
threatened several times u Kill his
wife. They never lived happy. She
was a highly cultured woman and he
was very ordinary
story Of the Shooting.
Mrs. Hill came TO our house Tor din
ner Thursday and her husband entered
the dining rom shortly after. She asked
him II their daughter, Ella Mae, had
returned to school and ne answered
her in a snarling manner Mrs. hin
then left 10 20 TO her home 70 change
shoes. and her husband fouoWed- l
ran upstairs in our home 10 listen 10
see II he started quarrenng, intending
to call the police II he did he had
been gone but a minute, when heard
a shot and I started running down
stairs TO the door. and other shots FOL
when I reached the door. saw Mrs.
Hill running from her home across the
yard 10 our house, the blood streaming
from several wounds She was crying
for help and. when she reached me, fell
unconscious. She had taken one shoe
off when her husband shot her and II
was due TO this, I believe, that she
trimmed when she ran down the steps
He shot her while she was Iylns on
the floor and again when she ran out
the door. Hill was not a man VINO
drank much. but he had been drinking
heavily during the past few days
They had been married ABOUT =
years. Mrs Hill would have obtained
A divorce from him. I believe. II II nad
not been for the children he was al
ways very abusive to her
Hill May Live.
Hill is still in a semi-conscious con
dftion at a hospital Dr.. Hugh )
White, the attending surgeon, stated
Friday morning that he was OF the
opinion that Hill will recover. Hill shot
himself in the right temple, the bullet
passing through and coming out near
his left eve He has lost the sight OF
both eyes as the result OF the Wouno-
The body Of Mrs Hill VIII pc
shipped Saturday morning at 80
10 Marshall. Texas Her son.
cliff HiI. who had been pitching
for the Waco team, in the Texas league
is expected to arrive home TINS eve
ming. he wired AIRS Garfield LhurSs-
dav night that he was leaving tor -
Paso. The deceased is survived o.
three children. Cliff, Ella Nae, aZeu
II years. and Mary, aged is years Hgr
mother Mrs. ". J. Garfield, OF Marsnail'
Tex: four brothers and one sister also
survive. They are J. 5. P Gattielo' o.
Fl Paso; r. n. and W F. Gatflelo. o.
Marshall Tex; S. P. Garfield. OF Dal-
las; Mrs. Raney Adkins. sister al
Marshall
To Hold Inquest
The inquest over the body OF MIS-
Hill will probably be held this AFTER
noon BY justice J. J. Murphy Tne tacts
will be reviewed. but it is expected the
case viii he continued pending the out
come OF the wound Hill inflicted upon
himself