Arizona republican., 1917-05-11
ETHEL BUTTS
 TO BE TRIED
 FUR MURDER
Direct Witness Tells of the Shooting Resulting in the Death of Sister-in-Law of the Accused Woman

T shot her and I shot to kill
 Charles Butts declared on the witness stand yesterday, at the preliminary hearing of Mrs Ethel Butts charged with murder that his sister-in- law made this statement shortly after she shot his wife.
 The young woman accused of the crime was not placed on the stand After the state had presented it's case, counsel for the defense stated that he would not offer any testimony and the defendant was bound over to the su- perior court in the sum of $10,000 bail. Mrs. Butts, unable to furnish bail, was remanded to the custody of the special deputies who are guarding her at the home of her attorney, F. Louis Zim- merman.
 Although no witnesses were put on the stand in defense of the young Wo- man who is alleged to have killed Mrs. Amanda Butts, who passed away at St Joseph's Hospital Monday morning after two weeks of intense suffering, the trend of the cross examination gave an idea as to the line of defense that will be offered when the case comes up in the higher court. Since thtre was an witness it is under stood there will be no denial, but that
 
 literally advanced by the defendants S counsel Unquestionably the young woman herself who is exceptionally at tractive, will have as much influence With the jury as any testimony that might be offered. Her beauty is of the brilliant, magnetic type and that coupled with her condition has an ap- peal that cannot be overlooked. She sat directly behind her attorney She appeared quite calm and her face throughout the hearing in Justice De Souza's court did not change from it's expression of quiet uncOncern. Now and again when. despite the seriousness of the case, the jest was passed she alone failed to smile.
 One Eye Witness
 The principal witness for the state was Roscoe Kessler who, at the tune of the shooting, was employed on the Green ranch south of town where Charles Butts is foreman and where his brother, Floyd Butts, is also employed. Kessler stated that on April 23 he was standing outside of the screen house talking to Mrs. Charles Butts who was inside, when Mrs. Ethel Butts ap- preached. She carried her hands be- hind her, he said. When she was three feet f1om the witness she asked Mrs. A sister-in-law complied with her re- quest she raised her pistol and fired. The boy testified that he was terrified but that he remembered asking Ms. Ethel Butts why she had committed the crime.
 T had to do it., was the answer.
 The boy then told of driving Nr. Butts and his injured wife to town and the few words spoken during tl;e I7ng dflVe the result of Wuich was usoIes, He said he had twice called at the nos pltal to see the wounded woman who even at the last did not wish hn~ hus- band to realize her suffering. Do not tell Charles how badW hm rnri were her last words to Kessler.
 The husband of the dead woman tas titled that when he heard the sl,or he ran to the scene of the tragedy. AS he was kneeilng over the body of his wife ms brother Floyd Butts, aEpeared and III deIense Of his wife said, Ethel did not shoot her" This was refIted l,v lhe injured woman who gasled "t,thel shot me and by the accused who is aneged to have remarked Yes 1 d1d shot her and I shot to kiH'
 Brothers QuarreIed
 Chder cfoSS-eXamination 1t deVelcoe6 that the brothers had quarreled over money matters and that tke wives had mad little differences. Mr Zimmerman also attempted to show that Mrs. EtheI butts had been called harsh names by Mrs- Charles Butts who referred to her as TeXas Indian" He let it arpear mat It would have been impossible f,1 Mfs. Ethel Butts to have handled n plStoi In one hand and irons in t,,e other and made much of Kessler s statement that the defendant lno s:l,, she had to do it. ''' '''' Dr, Win Wylie, who attended Mrs Gi1aIies Butts from the date of tbe 9hhootihg until her death, testified as tC me nature Of the wound. The bullet entered the neck and the snina1 coI,3,i' ~'as broken. She was paraIyzcd frn,, the time the shot entered her bodv mi she passed away. 0-i'i