Show woman beaten kicked shoots mate to death fatal gun Is overlooked by husband and it costs 0 s s his life CHICAGO charles mueller 41 a war veteran was shot and fatally wounded by his wife lucille in their apartment less than two minutes before the shooting mueller had taken apart or made harmless two guns but overlooked a third this lapse cost his life A witness to the battle and shooting was frank A dell aquila from his story and that of mrs M mueller the police learned details of the slaying wito wife asks help dell aquila was working on the first floor apartment part ment tor for his own use when mrs mueller appealed to him for aid complaining her husband had beaten her he went upstairs and lectured both while he was there he said mueller went into a bedroom took a revolver apart and unloaded a pistol then as mueller led deu dell aquila toward the kitchen mrs mueller threw a glass ash tray at her husband mueller returned deu dell aquila told police knocked his wife to the floor and kicked her then the two men walked toward the kitchen again mrs mueller ran to a second bedroom and got a 25 caliber spanish type pistol which mueller had overlooked she fired two shots at the men but missed del aquila ran into tha the kitchen for protection but mueller wheeled around and faced his wife she fired again hitting him twice in the abdomen mrs mueller called pouce police saying 1 I just shot my husband when a squad arrived they found mueller on the floor his head on a pillow placed by his wife she was wag declaring her love tor for him but also saying you have lucked kicked me charles died in hospital pouce police asked her if she shot him she nodded they asked how many times and they said she cried 1 I dont know but it if I 1 had had 25 bullets b ul in the gun id have used them au all mueller was taken to loretto hospital where he died 10 minutes later mrs mueller said she was married to mueller two years ago after they met in kansas it was his third marriage and he had an 18 year old daughter she said he was always beating me and telling me to get out she added he said that I 1 was too old tor for him and that he hated the sight of me mrs mueller denied that either was drinking that day when she asked him to join her in their usual drink before dinner she related he took the bottle and smashed it in the kitchen sink mrs lona baits who visited the before the fatal quarrel said that both mueller and his wife were enthusiastic hunters and both good shots she said mueller always praised his wife as being the better marksman |