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Show WOMAN 8HOOT8 HU8BAND. He Grabbed a Shotgun, But His Wife Had the Revolver. San Francisco. Ao tho culmination of a quarrol with his wife, Gustavo Hcutor, a retired San Francisco merchant mer-chant and n pioneer paint manufacturer, manufac-turer, wasa Bhot and Instantly killed at his homo in tho Santa Cruz mountains, moun-tains, near Patchcn, Friday night. A coroner's Jury Saturday exonerated Mrs. Heutcr, who claimed tho shooting shoot-ing was dono In sclf-dcfonso. According to Mrs. Hcutor's story, they quarreled over a trifling incident. Houtcr sprang from his bed and seized a shotgun. Mrs. Houtcr, realizing real-izing that her situation was desperate, drow from boncath her husband's pillow pil-low a rovolvcr which was always kept thero, and before ho could raise tho weapon, fired at him. It Is supposed that death ensued almost immediately after tho shot was fired, as tho bullet entered tho back of tho neck and pen-otratcd pen-otratcd tho brain. Mrs. Heutcr, who Is 30 years of age, was Tcuter's third wife. Heutcr waB 70ycars old. |