| Show DIDN'T GO TO TODO TODO DO IT SOBS GIRl WifE However Husband Is 18 in the Hospital After Domes Domes- Domestic tic Episode I did not stab m my husbAnd Intention Intention- shy lly I 1 placed d. d a butcher knife against t my 01 bo body the point of or the knife towards toward him bun and when hem ho he attacked me the knife pierc pierced hi his hie side I 1 had bad no intention of or hurting him It was nil all an accident I Iam Iam Iam am sorry and only hope that all turns out well 1 Mr Mrs Jos Joseph ph 3 J. J Whetton year rear old bride barely e 1 feet six ala Inches tall Is today behind the bars of or the city Jail charged with assault with a dead deadly I wea wea- pon Her husband lies tics In a critical condition condition condition con con- at St. St Marks Mark's h ho hospital declaring that the stabbing was as not tho the fault tault of or his wife I e. e substantiating her statement My Ny 0 husband wanted mo mc to go to 1 Forest For For- or- or est eat Dale with him and attend a meeting I 1 was war not feeling well wen and refused said Mrs Ir Whetton too today 9 He uHe then Insisted Since his return from front a mission minion he lie has not not visited his friends and he felt alt Jt as though It were a a. grave gra matter Then he asked me for a dollar I J did not want ant anthim him to go ItO and retus reuse d. d J It was then that he slapped me on thelen the tho left len cheek The blo blow was a hard one one one- perhaps harder r than he Intended it should be lie He has hap never neer before slapped me and andI I was as 0 so astounded that for a 0 moment Idid Idid I Idid did not know kno what to do The butcher knife wa wap lying on the table nearby I picked it up liP M My rh temper got the best of me I 1 did not ho however ver Int Intend nd to strike him with it I merel merely wanted to scare care him wanted him wanted him to realize that ho was wason wason as ason on dangerous ground He Ie made another rush tush at me and with the knife placed butt end against m my bod body ran into Its point At first the wound was wall not large but In tho the ensuing struggle twisting and around the room it wedged Its wa way further into his ha body Then ho fell tell I ru rushed hed to the porch and called for aid It was then that the tho police were ere called Dr R. R TV W. Fisher was Wall called by neighbors neighbors neigh neIgh- bors bor and h he ordered the tho wounded man removed remo to St St. Marks Mark's hospital where an operation was later performed Whetton himself elC full fully exonerates his wife wile of an any serious perlous charge b by declaring that the tho stabbing was waa purely accidental and that it Ita was a his fault for tor running at ather ather her and attacking herI herI her I I am ashamed of myself s said td W Whetton Whetton Whet Whet- etton et- et ton to think that I should have e so 10 far forgotten m myself elas as to strike m my wife No reparation which I can make now or Inthe inthe In Inthe the future will m ever make up for that in- in suit suU Because the stabbing resulted I am amnot amnot amnot not full fully repaid 1 I am sorry pom Mr and Mrs Whetton hotton have ha ben been Ul married mar mar married ried ned for tor only three months month their marriage 1 if A 1 tn fn n a III romantic on In an ocean liner i r when Whetton was wan returning from froman froman an English mission A sister t r is the only e relative near Salt Take I-ake City of ot Mrs Whetton She lives In Provo Police officials are of or the opinion that If a charge chare of man laughter in case cas the stabbed d man dies Is pl pled placed ced R against the tha wits a conviction con cannot be pained gained Arresting Officers Jukes Juices and Lund who rho replied to the call can sent pent In b by neighbors after the tight fight today declared that in their opinion the woman oman was war not at aUto all aU to blame for tor her act The whole thing thins wa was wms the result of an accident brou brought ht on by the quarrel said ald Officer Jukes and Mrs M Whetton 1 Is not notto notto notto to blame for tor h her r net act She Sho Is a very small woman her husband Is largo large and she was wa ats merely defending herself |
