The Coconino sun., 1919-10-03

Jean TefCy FdIIeli was DTOuknt V
 the county jail here by Sheriff Jacl
 Harrington last Friday, to live in ;
 cell until her trial for the murder O
 her husband, J. c. Farrell, whom i
 is claimed, she shot to death las
 Wednesday at their ranch at Garland
 Prairie.
 Her two little children, a boy O.
 eleven and girl of seven, were
 brought with her. The mother, wht
 had failed to show the slightest emo
 tion or sign of remorse, was true
 to nature when her children were
 taken away from her that afternoon
 She protested strongly against the
 separation, and for the first time she
 showed real grief.
 The little ones were taken home by
 Mrs. Chas. w. Heiser until some one
 can be found who will take them in
 and send them to school.
 Neither County Attorney Gold nor his assistant, George w. Harben, are at all satisfied with the story of the crime as told by the woman and Ernest Dyer, the hired man. They are not inclined to place full credence in the woman's "confession" that she
 
 did the shooting.
 The story told by the pair at the inquest, and still adhered to by both, is that Dyer had eaten dinner with the Farrells. At the table the latter discussed the final details of the sep aration they had agreed upon. Far rell was to turn the ranch and $100 in cash over to the wife and take his carpenter tools and leave that after noon. Both Dyer and the woman say the conversation was harmonious that there was no quarreling.
 After dinner, they claim, Dyer took the two children about a hundred yards from the house and all three began cutting corn. About half hour later Dyer and the boy heard shot, then saw the woman running toward them from the house. She told them she had shot her husband.
 Dyer went back to the house with the woman. They both say they found Farrell lying on a trunk. The woman said he was standing up when she ran out after shooting him. They agree that Dyer picked him up and put him on the bed, and that he lived half an hour.
 The woman in her account of the shooting, says Farrell was soon to leave their home, never to return. He was dressed to leave, then he sudden ly announced that he was "going to clean out the whole damn lot" and started to lift his rife up from be- hind the trunk. She grabbed the shot, gun. firing into the lower part of the right side of his back.
 It is right here that the woman's story leaves the realm of probability and becomes incomprehe9sible to the authorities.
 The woman claims that the man strengthened up after she shot him, and that he was still standing when she ran out doors. Dyer corroborates her testimony that he was lying on the trunk when he came to the house: that he picked him up and carried him to the bed; that he lived half an hour. |
 Dr. Tom Manning, who performed the autopsy. says the man never up at all; that he was killed instantly. The shot had torn | away the 18th rib on the right side, | torn loose one of his kidneys, torn | his liver all to pieces. as well as a | section of the intestines, and per forated both the lungs and the heart. |
 There was no blood at all found on the trunk. The woman claims she carried water from the spring and | washed it off. while her husband was still alive. The bed mattress was soaked through with blood.
 but neither the wife nor Over explained. and that was a trail of blood that led from seven feet outside of the front door to the threshold. At the begin hing of the trail was lot of ashes which had recently been wet down. The woman claims she knows nothing about this trail of blood nor the ashes.
 Again, the occurrences during the rest of the afternoon of the fatal day are, to say the least, peculiar. Dyer wrote a note to Frank Chadek, the Maine merchant, announcing that here had been a shooting, and sent he little boy away with it. distance 'f several miles. Then he hitched the cam to the moving machine, which Farrell had been running during the forenoon, and went to work. He said ,e cut hay all afternoon and that was what the officers found him doing when they arrived near night. The woman, after cleaning up the blood from the floor and trunk, chang- d her clothes and those of the little ,irl and presented quite gala ap- ,earance when the officers arrived. i Both Dyer and the woman were ocked up over night at Williams, where they were taken by the deputy heriffs, Ed Hamilton and Howard Curtis. Dyer was released next morn ng, and went back to the ranch. He about 35 years old and owns the anch adjoining that of the Farrells. Ie is believed to be either Danish or ,