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Show DEATH OF MRS. TO HER MATE SALT LAKE, Jan It. A formal! charge of murder w is yesterday lodg- ; ad against R Woods in connection with the death of his "ire Maryetta Woods, who w:is found dead in a burnlne bed in the Woods rooms in the Pauline upurtments lasd Monday. A complaint wan issued by County I Attorney Arthur Tv Moreton charging charg-ing Woods with premedltatedly striking, strik-ing, choHing and burning his wife j whose Incinerated body was dlsrov-J ered by firemen who were summoned llo the Woods apartment. The hus- j band was to be arraigned today be-1 fore City Judge Ben Johnson to plead to charge of murder In tho first degree. THEORY Ol' MURDJ K Mr Moreton drew the complaint on the theory that Woods planned to murder his wife for tho purpose of obtaining Insurance in which he was i beneficiary This followed lnvest!ga- Uon by th police which discloacd that Woods had insured his wife tOi $3000 j on January 6. Just three days before the file, and also that he carried SOO0 Worth of lire insurance pn rur-niture rur-niture which he was buying for the apartmi t.' Th' insurance policy which he ob-Lained ob-Lained provided double indemnity In clso the Insured met death in a burn-, ing building. m i ro - roRY. W oods adhered lo his original story i that two burglars entered the apait-mcnt apait-mcnt Monday afternoon, struck and bound him, and after tying and gagging gag-ging his wife, threw her on the- bed and set fire to it. lienzine was sprinkled sprin-kled upon .Mrs. Woods' dothinR anil upon the bed covers. This was evj-dently evj-dently taken from a bottle which vas discovered b detectives in the bathroom bath-room of the Woods home. V I ri MMlllll'IIUUUUU li. iiru' uv held or further investigation was made yesterday by the coroner' Jnr Investigating the -death of Mar. Woods. The verdict follows: First. that the said Maryetta Woods met her death between the hours of 11:30 a m. and 2 p. Rl. ot January 9. 1922, in No. -I Pauline apartments; salt Lake City. Utah. "Second, that she was feloniouslv killed "Third, that she was killed by external ex-ternal force or v' rangulatlon or both, she being dead before being burned. in j si n. tio r isi : "Fourth, that evidence produced points to Oner Woods, her husband. aS nsponsible for the death of Maryetta Mary-etta Woods, his wife, and while the Jurors do not pronounce him guilty, they recommend that he be held for further Investigation." Although Woods told detectives that he had leen robbed and ?7G taken from his person, $100 in Dills was found in his left hip pocket when he Waa searched at the police station rhortfc' after the purported burglary, Riley M. Beckstcad, chief of detectives, detec-tives, testified yesterday morniiiK- He also carried a gold watch and chain Woods also told conflictinK stories about tho burglary, at first saying that he had hern tied to a leg of the bath tub, and later that his hands and feet were merely tied together with an electric Iron cord, according to Chief Beckstead. When arrested Woods said :hnt two burglars had entered the apartment and after knocking him djown and binding him had bound his wlfi- and burned her on the bed. |