Provo Dispatch | 1891-08-12 | Page 3 | Shot Her Husband in the Leg

Shot llpr Mulntl f" tti j Dknvku, Colo., August 8. Mrs. Jennie M. Snyder, who cuss'-d a great i . ! commotion and sensation m (liecn- j leaf's dry goods store, on Larinn r street, last April, hv shooting at her ! husband, was storming around and tried to blow up a little cyclone at the court house yesterday, by reason of the clerk of thecontt haing the temerity to permit her husband to file a suit lor divorce. Mrs. Snyder is a young woman, and her husband. Aaron Sny-I Sny-I tier, is a clerk in Jreenleaf 's store. Ln ! his bill for divorce, he asserts that his j wife is a woman possessing an ungov- '. ernable temper, and that on April "7th. ' a month after his marriage to her, she j deliberately shot him in the right thigh I near the groin, with the intention of murdering him. He claims that the j bullet entered his leg in such a manner j as to inflict a cruel and painful wound, ; whi h was almost fatal. He fur! her j says he was conline to his bed for j three weeks, and underwent great stit- i fering, incapacitating him for work. j