Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-07-16 | Page 3 | Woman Shoots Dead Her Aged Husband

Woman Shoots Dead Her Aged Husband Claims Deed Done in Self-Defense and Is Exonerated by a Coroner's Jury. SAN FRANCISCO. July 15. As the culmination cul-mination of a quarrel with his wife, Gustavo Gus-tavo Heuicr, a retired San Francisco merchant mer-chant and a pioneer paint manufacturer, was shot nnd instantly killed at his home in the Santa Cruz mountains, near Patch-en, Patch-en, last night. A Coroner's Jury today exonerated ex-onerated Mrs. Heutcr, who claimed tho shooting was done in self-defense. Seized a Shotgun. According to Mrs. Heuter's story, thev quarreled over a trifling incident. Heutcr sprang from his bed and seized a shotgun. Mrs. Houter. realizing that her situation was desperate, drew from beneath her husband's pillow a revolver which was always kept there, and beforo he could raise the weapon, fired at him. Ho fell to the floor and the terrified woman rushed to tho telephone and summoned her step-son, Albert Hcuter. who resides on a ranch near his father's . place, requesting re-questing him to come to her aid at once with a physician. Death Almost Instant. Albert Houter hurried to the scene of tho shooting, but his father had been dead for somo time. It Is supposed that ueath ensued almost Immediately after the shot was fired, a.s tho bullet entered the' back of the neck and penetrated the brain. Mrs. Heutcr. who Is 30 years of ago. was Heuter's third wife. Houter was. 70 years ol.