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Show M 0KB MILK ENDSJTOLf Sister-in-law Said to Have Been Shot in Mistake for Wife. Bpeeial to The Tribune. ROCK SPRI.W;k, Wyo.. Nov. 17. Accused Ac-cused of the murder of LOIUI Posey, col-lored, col-lored, who, the police say, he rjonfeeeed to have nhot by mistake for his wife, a sister of the dead woman, Frank James is held In the Jail at Oreen River to await preliminary hen ring. Xromedlfl tely after the shooting, Mrs. James, In fleeing flee-ing from her husband, fell into a ditch and fractured her kneecap. After his sister-in-law had le-n slain. James went downtown and gave himself up, remarking, the police say, that he had shot a woman In the leg. The killing Is said to have been the result of a quarrel between James and his wife over the purchase by the latter lat-ter of an extra bottle of rullk, James eon-tending eon-tending that she was extravagnnt. In order to escape frrtfrn her Juts band, who, It Is alleged, had given her a bee ting. Mrs. James ran out of the house and went to the home of her sister. I tr, Richard Ross, who boarded with the James couple and had tn-en acting In the role of peacemaker went to the home of bene Posey and sought admittance. In the meantime, James, who Is said to have armed himself with a Winchester rifle, followed Ross and also knocked n t the door. Kena Posey Opened the door and told him not to bother her sister, Whereupon, It was testified nt the coroner's cor-oner's Inquest. James shoved his gun through the door and fired. The bullet Altered the Posey woman's neck, shut -terlug the spine and causing Instant death. As the Posey woman fell to the floor dead, Mrs, James ran out of the house and started acroSI the prairie. She f.- Into ditch and broke her kneecap Just before James overtook her. He had his gun COeked, It Is said, but she plea fled with him not to shoot, and It wnH then that he discovered that his slster-ln-law ha-t been shot Inete&d bf his wife. The verdict of the coroner's Jury to- da) wae that the Poeey woman camt to t er death from B gunshot wound Inflicted In-flicted by James, who will be charged with murder In the first degree. |