Show INQUEST BEGUN INTO DEATH IN MARITAL FIGHT Woman Accused of Killing Mate Brought From S. S L L. L for Hearing g Special to 10 The Tel Telegram errata BOUNTIFUL Dec Dee 26 A 26 A coroners coroner's inquest into the fatal shooting of Tony 39 railroad section worker who vho allegedly was slain here last night by his wife Rose Copula 29 began here today Mrs was returned here for forthe forthe the he hearing by Sheriff Joseph Halbrook Holbrook Hoi Hal brook rook of Davis county from the Salt Lake county jail jaU where she was lodged last night because there are aro areno no 10 for women in the Davis county jaiL Climaxing a quarrel In m which threatened her with a poker Mrs 1 allegedly shot her husband at p. p m m. here hero Sunday He died in St St. Marks Mark's hospital hospital hos has pital in S Salt Lake at a. a m m. Manday Monday Monday Mon Man day of ot a bullet wound in the head 1 Sheriff Joseph Holbrook of Davis county conferred with William A. A Dawson county attorney at Farming Farming- Farmington ton today and presented the facts of the case to the lat latter r. r The inquest it then was called EXPLAINS ACTION Mrs Copulas Copula's story of shooting to save herself when her husband threatened with a poker apparently y is true Sheriff Sheri Holbrook said and she may have been justified However However How How- ever there is a debt to society to be paid and I am placing the thc matter in inthe inthe inthe the hands of the county attorney The woman gave her account of the affair after being lodged in the Salt Lake county jail telling how she had experienced domes domestic c difficulties for more than a year with her husband hus hug band a railroad section worker We had a fight tight Saturday she said when he found out I had spen 5 on groceries He told me to get out but I talked him out of it But Buthe Buthe Buthe he started in again Sunday He ordered Theresa 14 my oldest child and myself to leave He was drunk on homemade wine and kept looking f for r the gun and threatened to shoot us My other two childr children n Violet 12 12 and Eugene 10 said aid that if it I went they would go too REACHED FOR POKER Then my husband got sl sick k I Ivas Iwas Iwas was vas bringing him some coffee and when I walked toward him hun he reached for the poker poke I 1 was near neara a box of clothes where I 1 had hidden the gun and Wh when I saw w tl the poker er erIn in his handI shot Kim s w Sheriff Holbrook said Holbrook said her story was corroborated by a a boarder Earl Kurtz Kurt 44 who was in an adjoining room Neighbors called the sheriff and after an examination at Bountiful ful the Wounded man was taken to the Salt Lake hospital The three children did not hot learn of their fathers father's death until several hours houf after alter it occurred Deputy sheriffs investigating the shooting visited the home and told them themAr Arrangements Ar Arrangements are arc being made by relatives relatives' relatives relatives rela rela- tives tives' of ot Mr to care for the children S |