The Coconino sun., 1921-10-07

His brother would not do it. Tony said he would throw his clothes out, and told his brother he would shoot him; then he went and put the gun together; it was apart. Then he shot me. He was jealous of his brother. His brother and his father picked me up. His father was not there when he shot me. His brother tried to take the gun away from him, but he would not let him, and he went to the door and shot me.
 (Signed) AGNES CHAVEZ. Witnesses: VIM. A. CAMPBELL,
 JOHN GARRETT.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of October, 1921.
 G. F. MANNING, Notary Public.
 Mrs. Chavez remarked while sign ing the above that her husband had told her to say the shooting was ac- cidental.
 Tony, the husband, at the time of his arrest acted indifferent and angry, Thompson says. He told the officers he was afraid his wife was going to shoot him. He remembered, he said, that his gun was loaded as he had left 1t the night before after coming in from hunting and he went to get it to unload it. While he was extracting the shell, he said, the shot was fired and he then realized for the first time that the gun had been cooked.
 It is a Remington single barreled, breech-loading, 40 guage choke bar rel, the shell being about as large as a 50 guage Winchester rife cartridge. The shot apparently were No. 6 chilled. There were about 70 shot in the wound.
 The woman was standing near the outside door at the east end of the kitchen when the gun was fired, the man stading 10 or 12 feet away in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room. The entire charge entered her right groin in the extreme lower part of the abdomen. The charge entered from left to right and slightly downward indicating that she was partly facing her husband with her left side partly turned toward him when he fired. There was a big pool of blood on the kitchen floor.
 Father c. Vabre was called to the hospital and administered the sacra- ment of extreme unction before the ether was given.
 Deputy Sheriff Howard Marine last night wired to the injured woman's mother, who is living with her second husband, Cruz Gonzales, at Cooley.
 Mrs. Chavez is Tony's second wife, his first having died of flu. She was married to him October IS, 1919, when she was IF. For a short time up to her marriage she clerked for Joe Blumberg, at the J. Herman store. She is well educated and pretty. Tony, who has lived here all his life, is about 30 years old. For long time he clerked in the drygoods department at Babbitts', later at Penney's, then at Canyon Diablo and Cooley, and most Of the last several months he and his wife have lived here in town and he has done odd jobs.
 Many people who know Tony say that he has not acted right for some time. He had good reputation, but lately, it is said by several, has acted strange" Nearly two years ago he was summoned to the office of County Attorney F. M. Gold to confront a man and his wife and the latter's sis- ter, all of whom charged that he had spread scandalous stories about the two women. The matter was finally allowed to drop. It is also asserted that he was twice arrested at Cooley for alleged cruelty to his wife.
 The wound in Mrs. Chavez groin is oval in shape, about two inches wide one way and three the other. Gun wadding and fragments of her cloth ing were carried deep into the wound by the shot, and the physicians We'd nesday night did not dare probe deep enough to remove all of that for fear of cutting the artery. It was be- lieved that none of the shot penetrated the intestines. The patient was very weak from excessive loss of blood and shock and not much hope is held out for her recovery.
 Her condition is the more serious because of her being in delicate con