Show Mrs rs Caputo Shoots Husband in m Self Def Defense eDse Jury Finds A sad shooting affair occurred Sunday evening in Bountiful when Mrs Rose Caputo Caput who resides on the upper road just a n short di dis- dis distance dis distance tance south of the tho City limits shot and fatally wounded her husband Ton Tony Caputo a section hand at Garfield Gai who died early curly Monday mornin morning at St St Marks Mark's hospital in Salt Lake City Sheriff Holbrook took Mrs Caputo in placing her in inthe inthe inthe the Salt SnIt Lake county jail because there is no accommodations for women in our county jail pending investigation tion A coroners coroner's jury in charge of City Justice J W Hill and com corn composed composed posed of Henry W Stable Stahle Orson Sessions and Fred Nelson heard the story of the shooting as told i by Mrs Caputo who was very frank and straight forward in I answering questions question and told her children to tell all they knew not notto notto notto to withhold anything and Earl Krutz a boarder Mrs Caputo Caputa told toM the die coroners coroner's jury that her husband d was drink drink- drinkin drinking drinking in ing Saturday and flew into a rage because she she had spent 5 5 for food and supplies over the Christmas holidays though she said she bought no toys nor or presents for forthe forthe forthe the children She likewise stated that her husband ordered her and her daughter Theressa out of the tb house Mrs Caputa said she she talk lk ed him out of it Saturday but Sunday he continued drinking and was hunting allover all over the house for a gun which Mrs Caputo said she had hidden in a basket of clothes When Mrs Caputo and her eldest I daughter were ordered out Sunday I Ithe the other children Violet 12 and Eugene 10 cried and said they would go o to Mrs Caputo said her husband finally got sick I was bringing him some Borne coffee because he wants coffee when he h is that way and I when I walked toward him he leaned over and reached for a big bigI I iron poker I was by the box of clothes and when I saw the poker in his hand I got the pistol and shot him After the jury that Mrs Caputo had shot her husband in self defense she was given her freedom and she returned to her home I The investigation brought out that Mrs Caputo was tried and ac- ac acquitted ac acquitted quitted in Colorado in 1924 after she is said to have shot and killed John Lapoli whom she testified was geeting the best of her hus- hus husband husband hus husband i band in a fi fight ht following alleged advances of Lapoli to Mrs Caputo The family has only lived in Bountiful a year or so but neigh neigh- neighbors neighbors neighbors bors considered them nic nice people The family belon belong belone to the Roman I Catholic church in Salt Lake where services were held held- held yesterday |