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Show COLORADO FARMER IS CHARGED WITH HIS VGUNG WIFE'S DEATH ! . WRAY, Colo- April S. Direct in-j in-j formation was filed- against Artie S. ilcKee, a rancher, today, charging him with the mqrder of. his twenty-three-year-old wife last Monday, lie denied de-nied knowledge of the crime. The body waa found with a wound in the back of the head by a school teacher. The McKccs lived on a ranch seventeen seven-teen miles southwest of this town, and it was in her own home that the body of Mrs McKeo was found, with her two-year-old daughter asleep across the prostrate form. According lo the husband, he had gone to a community mail box to get Use mull. On the return drive ho brought Miss Gladys IlUusy. a school teacher, home with him. She entered tho house berore Mclvee had unharnessed unhar-nessed the horses and found the doad woman. The teacher then saddled one of the horses and rode two miles to a telephone to summon a doctor. After he arrived he called the coroner and sheriff. Both Mclvee' and the school teacher deny any relationship between themselves them-selves except friendship. It is said that the main evidence against McKec Is that one shell was found to have been fired from his repeating aholEun- oo |