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Show MAN HELD FOR DEATH OF WIFE IN DRUNKEN BRAWL AT SQUAW SPRINGS "We had a battle, and Mary died,'1 was the simple explanation of C. G. Smith, of the tragic death of his wife, at their ranch at Squaw Spring, two miles west of Frisco, in this county, Sunday night. Leland Rowley, of Milford, enroute to Garrison, had stopped at the ranch to deliver some goods, when he received this gruesome grue-some information from Smith, who is familiarly know as "Cy Perkins." He asked Rowley to get an undertaker under-taker for . "Mary," and the deputy-sheriff deputy-sheriff for himself. Rowley got in touch with the authorities and Sheriff Neils Jensen, Jen-sen, accompanied by Roy Coleman, Herbert Nichols, and Harry Ward, went to the ranch. . They found Mrs. Smith dead in her b?d. She was fully dressed, and showed unmistakable evidence of having received a severe beating. On Saturday afternoon, previous to Smith's announcement of his wife's death, Mike Sloan, of Frisco, had stopped stop-ped at the ranch and found Mrs. Smith lying on the floor, bleeding freely from a wound on the head. She stated that she had slipped and fell, causing the cut. Mr.Sloan assisted assist-ed her to the bed, and left,, thinking that she was not injured seriously. An examination of the body after being brought to Milford, showed that she had received several broken ribs and that death was caused by an internal in-ternal hemorhage. Smith was locked up in the Milford jail, and is being held pending the verdict of the inquest in-quest which will be held today. Prom all that has been learned it is evident that Mrs. Smith's death resulted re-sulted from an encounted with her husband, as they are known to have had many such . battles in the. past, when under the influence of liquor, which, it is claimed, was a rather frequent fre-quent practice of the couple. Those personally acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Smith say they bore an excellent reputation for honesty, were hard workers and had accumulated accumul-ated considerable livestock at their Squaw Spring ranch. It was only when imbibing too freely that martial trou-les trou-les occurred. These personal encoun- fr ; JJ.' ' V-'- I v ... Mary Smith Victim of Tragedy ters had taken place over a period of years. The couple have resided in Beaver county for twenty-five yearsf and were residents of Newhouse during the boom days of that camp. Mrs. Smith was a picturesque character, char-acter, always wearing men's clothing ' and riding the range and dqing most of the ranch duties usually thought to be men's work. Of recent years she had not been seen much in public, Lut spent practically all her time at the ranch. Smith lias employed Abe Murdock, of Beaver, as his attorney, and refuses re-fuses to make any statement. The body has been held at the mortuary in Milford pending the inquest which is being held as we go to press. Mr. Smith is sixty years old, while Ms wife is several years his senior. They have no relatives in this section, sec-tion, according to those nnose intimately inti-mately acquainted with them. |