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Show cypi DUO, mflli uilljl ULnU; imm lily UiiLlJ Ex-Soldier Wounds Wife After Killing Companion; Pleads Seif-defense. Sp-Ii lo Tii,1 Tribune. ASHTOX, Idaho. Dp:. 23. James Hover-male, Hover-male, a former soldier ot Felt, a station on the Aiion-Victor branch, yesterday shot and k:!ird "Myron Beach and then shot his own v. ife with a Winchester rifle, according to word rec--:vci here today. Hovermalc claims self-defense. Jlrs. ilov-ermalc, ilov-ermalc, although severity injured, may recover. re-cover. .According to witnesses. IMrs. Fovcrmai-j and Ueach wen' lo f, - n fi-ori the u.- aeh ranch-, where. Mrs. noit:'ii:;i.ij r.ac i . aetini.- as hocscheeher, ami immediately so ;ent oat liovermaie, veno 1 a ulacK- smith. .. .. Kovci'maie is aliened to have Uee.i !cr-sned !cr-sned a'oont tovn iy the eo'ipie, at onetime one-time corns' ti.ronc'li a lnn.l.-r yard, and .-,Ucs;ir.ir tilt- mai:a-rr if lie saw Mrs. Hovermalc to Iry disarm her. sa ...u she had a hutchcr knife and was after hit:. Mrs. Hover.ma.e was intercepted, it is aid. 'em later sl- and Beach aeam took ",'' Hovernu. h-'s ti'ail and were pursuills him in a two-hoir-e rig. It is alleaed til.-.t Hovermale s.iot bo-p horses in an attempt to escape, and then fired upon ?,-. eh and the woman. Eeach was insiai.t.y kip-,. :,!:.-. le -r-ma.e was s"-Lch in the lee-l '.y a huiiet, severe wounds. Hovennai- and his wife had rah l.e:: livine toa-. t'ner for some time and had tmuhle before. The "vonbie whi. a led cirecflv to the sho.hh.a .s said to have be-n tarsal by a .i..-m.:te over the possession pos-session of a nn. ; Hoverniaie is in jail at I'riaas. , |