The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-10
5O-YEAR-OLD WIFE HELDF0RsHQ!0TING.
South Carolina Physicians Married Life Unhappy,
 Witnesses Testify

 of domestic troubles developing In . married life of more than 30 years. and culminating in the shooting, to death on Sunday of Dr. Archie China, prominent Sumter physician and banker, with his widow accused of the crime, was laid before the cor oner's jury which today investigated the tragedy. After deliberating 1b minutes, the jury returned @ ver- dict, formally reporting the conclu- sion that Dr. China came to his death from gunshot wounds inflicted by Mrs Louise Davis China, the 5o-odd-
 Witnesses examined by Solicitor Frank A. Mcleod, brother of Gov: Thomas G. Mcleod, who conducted the case for the state, declared the married life of the Chinas had been marked by frequent quarrels. The pistol with which Mrs. China IS al, legged to have shot her b8-year-ola husband was identified by a man and wife, friends of the family, as one that had been missed from neir home, where the accused woman was said to have been frequent visitor' four or five months ago.
 dy was given by pr. HIM Stuckey, her physician, to whom she made statement Monday night in the local hospital. where she was taken Tn an apparent collapse shortly after the finding of her husbands body in his bathroom. nearly "A hours, accoru, died with two bullet wounds in the head. The bank err physician was shot when his wife grappled with him over the pistol, which he had in his hand and which he threatened to kill her, pr. Stuckey quoted Mrs. China as saying.
 HsFeigned" (Unconsciousness.
 In the course of his testimony, the physician definitely declared that Mrs. China's "unconsciousness" on the day her husbands body was found was feigned: The most care, full examination, he declared, failed to show anything wrong Mith her.
 Meantime, Mrs. China, still at the hospital under the guard Of officers, who were placed at her room when a warrant charging her with mur- der and sworn out yesterday by Cor oner W. J. Sealey. was reported to was not so we'll, it was declared, as she had been yesterday, when pr. Stuckey pronounced her practically
 Mrs. China's statement, as quoted by the witness, did not explain why she had failed to- inform the au- thorities or neighbors of the trage- dy. NThe discovery of her husband 8 body. was directly due to the col lapse Mrs. China appeared to suffer Monday morning, it was testified, as a nurse found it when she went to the bathroom to get towel for use in an attempt to revive the appar- ently unconscious woman.
 After her husband was shot in the encounter over the pistol, Mrs. China admitted, according to Dr. Stuckey. hiding the weapon in the Woodshed of W, s. Fischel, next door neigh- bor, where it was found after sev- eral hours search Dy local 0ii''efs' Jealousy Ascribed.
 Evidence that Mrs. China was jealous of what she believed were her husbands relations with other women was introduced into the rec ord bv the testimony of Mrs. c. M. Phifer. wife of a wholesale grocer, and. according to her statements. close friend of the China family. Say ing she had known of many disag- greements> >hatween. pr, China and his ;. wife, Mrs. Phifer declared the lat woman "upon whom he was lavtsh- ing the love and caresses she was dying to receive"
 The name of the other woman was not mentioned in the testimony.
 Continuing to detail the alleged in felicities of the couple, Mrs.. Phifer testified that upon one occasion she had remarked to Dr. China that he had fine wife," to which he re- piled. according to the witness:
 You don't know"
 Mrs. Phifer's husband positively identified the pistol found in the Fischel -woodshed as one that had been missing from his home several months ago. He, and Mrs. Phifer, testified that Mrs. China had gone wherever she pleased in their home and could easily have taken the weapon from the closet shelf, where it was kept.