Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-20 | Page 37 | Miner's Daughter Tells of Shooting

Miners Miner's Daughter i TeIs els of Telegram Leased Wire Wiro PRICE May 20 year Ten yea Ten daughter of a Sunn Sunnydale dale Carbon county miner who was shot to death Wednesday at the tile family home in Sunnydale Friday told a coroners coroner's coroners jury her mother fired the fatal shot Lupe Ruiz Rui testified her mother Ruiz Rui SO O 0 shot and killed her father Cedro Ruiz 32 following a quarrel and altercation during which the Uie victim held the te woman against the wall wal and choked her The Tile girl said her mother went vent to tote the te bathroom and ad called caled out that she he was going to leave She said her ler father said he didn't want her herthe herthe herthe the mother to leave and said he ic wanted to find her home when he returned from work The girl said her mother later called ailed caled her from the te bedroom advising advising ad ad- vi ng her to get the children out of f the te house because she was wa going gong go go- ing inS ng to shoot their father I Walking into the kitchen kichen with the he gun the girl said her mother told old Ruiz she was going to shoot him Father laughed and went wenton on n eating and said when you shoot hoot me shoot me in the fore fore- head head The Thc girl gir said her mother fired fred and that her father got up from the he table and staggered into the living iving room where he collapsed The bullet bulet struck him in in the te throat The Thc mother is being held for investigation in connection with wit the he shooting