| Show wife beater killed A dispatch from bellevue idaho ol 01 april ad 31 says word was vesteria Test Vest erda deceived received of J L smith being shot dea y his wite wife in hailey amith smith WW wa sadan at hot spring owning a resor wo miles wrist west of ti hailey alley ile he was a cruet cruel man to his family often beati r 9 na is wife and children unmerciful unmercifully ly smith drank considerable during yes erday and went home and t eggl quarreling with his family and threatened to whip his bis wife and chil dren the woman retreated to all aa adjoining room w with iab her husband art ad avancing she picked up and tired fired a rifle and her husband fell dead in his tracks the bullet struck him just left eye blowing the top of his skull agull off aud and spattering the walls wails and cei cecline liDL with blood hair and flesh A son 10 16 years old stood in the room and wit hessed the affair the mother st at once ur rendered to the sheriff smith wil wax 56 years alq old and an old jimr in idaho he fie was raised in vancouver ver WT W T he leaves two children by a former wife bif t both of whom are married and by tits his present wite wife mrs smith learned to use a rifle by her husbands husband I 1 instructions dinst ructions at the spring resort A AL examination was acted to day much sympathy is expressed i or smith although it was notorious that he had oen whipped his bis wife mrs smith is a sister of J D agnew of boise city T |
