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Show 'CONVICTION OF BOTHA "Dutch Charley" Was Quickly Found Guilty of Murder. THE STORY OF THE CRIME Straightforward Relation of It by tho Only Uyi-Wltnes The Defendant Claimed That Ilia Shooting ot Ills Wife War Accidental, but Tlint Af. ter It Will Don.) He. Was I renzied and Ilngvr to Kill Tlbbltta- Uollm Kept III Wife in Deatltution nnd Squalor 'lime of Sentence. Mnntlcllo Pnn lunn r.unt Unh Aug .0 -Oient pioricph hua b'en made toda In the inurJi cn aajalnat I harlea Itolh.i nihil, Dutili rhniley ' Tbi Uniy nf the teirlble Itajt d that occurred In lha lomly mnuntnln i nnln nt the foot nf the l.a Rnla on Mtirch 19th laat hat been told and It la prob-nble prob-nble Hint In ihe hletnry of eouita In thla Htnte nothing more liorrlfjlnx thnn the killing of .Mar) llntha and Ullllnm 'Ilhhltta haa eet been narrntert be-fnre be-fnre a Jury There waa but one eye wltnea nf the arialr, except the defendant de-fendant and tlm vlctima old innn fnr dnn Hoae who Ihed nt the home nf Tlhliltm nt the time Mr Itoia- waa placed on the atiind thla morning mid told wfyil he knew lu a aiinple, quiet way sxoitv nr 'i in: oiumi: Mnry Itnihn had he, n alnMiiK nl the home of Tlbbltta aevurnl Ua before the IhIiiI J'uli of Mu rib Tlbbltta had taken rtiimiJMlnn nn the wnnian be-iBUKM be-iBUKM nr lh., dtntltuilon nf her home N'nthlnir lniioer 'null hwi. niiuried b'twe.nth, twn na wllneaa win ne,rl filunx wlnn the) wire On the ila inentlniieil I linil.H ll.ill.it came In the door of thelllihllta hotut gun In hind ant demniul' 1 of Mr 1 Ibl.ltta to know what he hail dnn, with hla (llntlm ) wife whj br hal atnlen hci and wont ed nn . xplaniitlnn ipih k .Mta llnth t waa In the Kit IIiim mom In plain Mew thrntiKh an ojn door llinrlnc her huabanda nl ahe alnrted for the Klteheii lu re the other pnrtlea were Ilitbi inlaed hla gun nnd (Ir, I uniting unit-ing her In the alomich nt which ahe , nine atitinhlltur through the drmr ex ilnltnliig Oh Mr llnae I nm ahot nnd killed tin n fell in the Moor nnd roll, 1 under tho table Il thla lime Mr Tib bltta lm.l ruhed Into i pautrs nut I.i.hI tli" door llnlhTa gun wna nt nine hriiuKh! Into a, don In that dire, tlon Tlhhllta pleading for III life na tho ahma i inie through the door At laat the w'rk w la done n bullet milking milk-ing lilm In nbout the a line poaltlnn na the wound nn the boly of Mary llnth i The alier of tluae people now ordered old man Itnao In remoie annu nf Ihe ilnthlng of hla Mcllma thnt lie might a,e the wounda In Ihe cnae of hla wife adaanra hid to be used nnd while thej w,ie et nlle mil ennacinua he rrmitrki 1 1 gueaa It'a it kuo 1 Job, lbe will both die '1 hen. lifting Tib bltla nut nn the pnrrh Into Ihe cooler ilttnoaphelo mid Ida wife Into n h.il mom bo and lied one nf Tlbhltta'a liniaea and dcniuped Ilia vlcllma fllt.il during tin night Other wltneaeea leatllleil na tn Itotlm'a getting i kiln nf ..xpreanlona h Iind mile of hla Intention to kill, mil gl-Ing gl-Ing n ileairlpllon of n mineral. le hovel known na Itotha'a home, -where the biro no, cent tit a nf life wire nhaeut nn 1 enm-fnrla enm-fnrla were unknown nu'ii.sDA.NT s stoiiy Tho ,ltf, udnnt wna put nn Hie alnnd tlda LMiitng He mil hla alnry with Mb, nience nnt nppirentl) greit eirn-'aineaa eirn-'aineaa 11, la !s enra oil lgnroua, nthletlc the wife tint he killed nbout II lie atnrtel out bj telling nf hla meeting hla wife In Colorado It wna a rnae of line nt lllat Bight Oittlllg married the a. tiled down In n little Imir dtignut nn 1. 1 Sal creek nn 1 while iniiifnrta were few Ihev lled linpplls I le In iik- William Ilhhltta made tln.tr H,itiilntnn,i mid hutted them to ltdt nt hla home Alter tint the) apuit aome tlm, with htm Soon trouble mo, beiw,en ltollrn mil Ida wife alio I iglimliiK- Io tniupl tin nbout Mr cnndl-llnn cnndl-llnn lu UTi nnd alnlng nwa frnm homo .la) i, at it time The wntiun in I lltihltta were fliUentl tngethei nnl Ituhia aiiKplilnua wire nrnuned t'ln-nll t'ln-nll ahe atu,d nwa loiiKtr than usu il and tin liiialiinil unit In lnnk f.r her NelshliorB told hi in ahe una at the home of lilibiita l'lred with uiik, r tgilnn the m in whn had deatro)ed hla hnpplneai be mnde bnate tn meet hint nn I entering the Tlbbltta house naked fni hla wife r-he fame from the anting an-ting room i xi Induing Vhnilex dnn t almot Tlbhllta. he la not to blime I ah n. nm the cniiae of thla trouble" whereupon he grabbed her b Ihe nrm put the muxile nf hla gun ngihut her buck and pinned her oer Io where Tllibltta wna Blinding ao that they nilKlM atiind aide b alle nnd face htm on the ehnrg, he wna m tklng when nuidriitnll) the gnu wna illathirM'd Then B.elng Ida wlte fall he he, anie llxt.l with rnae ind 'thought no moro of killing Tlbhllta than i rnbhll Ihe def, nae att up la lemixirary In-anlt) In-anlt) i in- Jt'itv Aoitnt:. Moiitlnlln ug 21- lu the niatrlct court here to ln Pit Id "tanner pleaded gullt to un diroimalloii thmglng na-aniili na-aniili an I w- ia lined IS. Oeneritt mil Inflation la heard on all aldeaat the Mull, t of mii of murder In Ihe that digree without leii.tumeu-datlnn leii.tumeu-datlnn nf nieru In the Ohirlea llntha minder tnae The Jur ngreeri hi mice on llu Ural ballot Noilee of Intention Io mote for n new tilnl waa aened and Judge Johnaon tled Not ember ITth nixt aa tin, day for pitaalna; aent, me MMifi.v i:si"Arns Jatk Myron In eiulodt here the flrt of the tve.K ihtrgel with burglar) nnd giand lore. n and who uiaito nn ea-t ea-t ipe from the count) Jail o,i Mnndn) night and w re, aptured at VerJure the next du aguln hioke jail Irtat night atnle nun nf the heal axddle hniaea In mwn nnd dacHinped fnr part unkunwn health hna been made fnr him all da) without utail and It lr tlmught he hua gone, thla tlmo to return re-turn no more |