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Show WIDOW OF OFFICER RECALLEDjd 510 Mrs. Margaret Butler Impeaches Im-peaches Story Told by H. J. Spanell. SAN AN'GELO. Tex., Jan. 37. In an effort to impeach the testimony of Harry J. Spanell, being1 tried here on a charge of killing his wife, Crystal Holland Spanell, at Alpine, Tex., the state today called Mrs. Margaret Howell Butler, widow of Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Butler. But-ler. Spanell also is under indictment for the killing; of Butler, who. with Mrs. Spanell, was shot to death in Spanell s automobile on the night of July 20 last. Mrs. Butler's testimony, given over the j constant objection of defense counsel, ! was a repetition of her previous testi-' mony. that Mrs. Spanell had accompanied accompa-nied Colonel Butler and herself to the Butler home In the Holland hotel at Alpine Al-pine a short time before the shooting and that Mrs. Spanell had not been in-suited in-suited there and that .there had been no quarrel. Spanell, testifying Thursday in his own behalf, 6aid his wife had been insulted by Butler in this room; that the shootiag had followed his demand for an expla nation from Butler, and that the sliot which killed Mrs. SpaneU was fired B vi tier In an ensuipg altercation. The only new feature to Mrs. Butler's testimony testi-mony this afternoon was the statement that 'Colonel Butler "did not drink." William Fittman, 9-year-old son of R. N. Pittman of Meridian, Miss., was not permitted to testify on objection of the defense that he was of irresponsible age. Lee Harrington of Alpine, a state's witness, testified he was at the Alpine Jail with Sheriff Allen Walton Of Brewster county, and heard Spanell tell the sheriff: "I've killed Major Butler and my wife. I'm ruined; they made me do It!" Butler was a major In the army at the time of his death, but had Just been named for promotion to be lieutenant colonel. Sheriff Walton testified Spanell told him he had killed Butler and Mrs-Spanell, Mrs-Spanell, but "they "made him do it-" He said he had not told the defense counsel coun-sel about what Spanell said In jail because be-cause he "did not think the evidence could be used." He had told state attorneys, at-torneys, however, he said, but deoiied he was prejudiced against the defendant. |