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Show WAS FOULLY MURDERED. Doise Man Struck Down by Young Wife nnd Her Lover. A Holso Idnho. dispatch states that Charles Daly, rD years of ago, was brutally murdered by his 20-year-old wlfo and Fred llond, hor lover. Tho crlmo was committed In Daly's home where Bond was n roomer. Tho victim was struck on tho head with a hatchet and shot three times in the region of the heart with a pistol. The shooting occurred shortly after midnight, but It was not heard by tho neighbors and nothing was known of the tragedy until Rond came down town nbout 9 o'clock in tho morning and Informed nn ofllcer that Mrs. Daly had shot her husband. An examination disclosed a frightful tragedy. Tho body of Daly was lying In a pool of blood In tho room, whore his murderers had spent tlin night. There was blood on the bed. on tho walls and all over tho apartments. A coroner's Jury was called and when the woman was put on tho stand sho told n blood curdling story, of having shot her husband In self-defense. She narrated thnt ho threatened threat-ened her and sho shot him. Later when ho stirred she shot him again nnd again three hours later she gave him another shot and hit him with tho hatchet. Sho stuck to this story for awlillo and then broke down and declared that llond did the' killing about half an hour after midnight. It was arranged, she said, that sho should get tho revolver, which sho procured from a hardware store, and then tell a story of having committed the deed in self defense, llond Insists In-sists he had nothing to do with tho murder, but tho case against both Is very strong. The murdered man was In poor circumstances, being employed em-ployed by tho gas company as solicitor. |