| Show LURED TO HER DEATH False Message tent > Mother That Her BoyWas III WOMAN ALMOST CRAZED Travels From Oklahoma to Home of Her SisterinLaw Near Grant Wyoming in Distracted Condition Finds Her Son Not Ill but Is Greeted by Abuse by Her Husband Two Hours Afterward She Was Murdered Coroners Jury Says Husband Shot HerHe Is In Jail TRIBUTE SPECIAL Cheyenne Wyo Oct 1Tho case of Charles A Summons who was brought to Cheyenne from Grant last night and lodged In jaIl on a charge o murdering his wife presents some unusual phases Tho killing occurred at the ranch of Sam nonss slater Mrs Brut and appears to have been the result of a coldblooded scheme to get Mrs Sammons out of the way DESERTED HIS WIFE S6mmons came to Wyoming several months ago having deserted his wife and two imall children In Oklahoma A thIrd child a boy 0 years of ago Sam mon brought with him The deserted wife made every effort to locate her hus band and by accident discovered hie pres once in Grant v STARTED TO HER DEATH She wrote an appealing letter for him lo return or allow her to come to him The answer was a telegram toiling her to como at once that her child was Ill and not expected to live On the next train she planed for Wyoming and her death Tho Brae ranch Is thirty miles from the nearest railroad point POOR WOMAN ALMOST CRAZED Mrs Sammons arrived at Whoatland Wednesday morning in a distracted con Itlon and rode all that day In order to reach the childs bedside IIR soon us possIble possI-ble Sho reached the Brae placo shortly before nightfall to hind that her son was nOt 111 und to bo greeted with abuse and avlllng by her huuband WOMAN IS SLAIN Two hours Inter 11 report was sent from the place that Mrs Sammons had cither accIdentally shot herself or had committed commit-ted suicide Neighbor regarded the cir umslanccs us suspicious and telegraphed for the Coroner to come The result of his Investigation Was that Sammons was arrested for murder FINDING OP CORONERS JURY The Coroners Jurys verdict IB that Mrs Summon came to her death from the cf uOts of a shotgun charge that the wound Is so situated that It could not have been rlfInlllctcd that thoro was no chance or tho shooting to havo been accident al 1 and that In tho minds of the Jury tho wound killing Mru Sannnons was the rc stilt of 1 shotgun charge fired by C A Sammons MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD The circumstances In tho case leave lit tie doubt that Sammons was afraid that his wlfo would follow him to Grant and make trouble that he sent her a false message In order that she would como to the Brae ranch and murdered her In coM blood upon her arrival Tho only other lemons about tho ranch at the tlino oC ho killing woro Mn rBac and the gammons gam-mons boyPRISONER PRISONER SILENT Sammona ban little to say In regard to the shooting He lo a mlddlsagcd man and has one wooden Ieg Reports from Oklahoma say that he treated his wife shamefully there I |
