Show r LATEST NEWS VS FROM W E S I I Idaho Idaho- Nevada Montana I Nevada Montana Wyoming RELATE STORY Of F SHOOTING Gardner Ranch Tragedy Described During Womans Woman's Trial SALT LAKE Nov 22 Deputy Sheriffs Frank Matthews and for for- for former mer mpr Deputy T I A A Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday related Incidents leading up p to the ft r Joseph V lne by George Georg at nt the of ot Mrs Martha G 0 Gardner opened Wednesday In the district court Mrs Gardner lived with the George Gardner a as his nite Ite ife and Is charged with Ith first-degree first murder because of ot her alleged participation In the traced tragedy at Welby Welb April iE 1922 when Deputy Deput Sheriff Gordon Stuart and Irvine Irvino were both mor mor- mortally mor- mor mortally tally w b Gardner 1 11 1 0 paid the penalty for the shooting c or of o Stuart August 31 last This Is Mrs lre Gard Gardner Gardners ner third WOMAN OA CItIES CRUS OUT our My Uy God he be shot an Innocent man Don t Kill any more Inno info Innocent Innocent cent men Go get Irvine was Irs Gardners Gardner's exclamation after Gardner had bad hot and killed Dep Dep- Deputy Deputy uty Sheriff Stuart ding acco-ding to the I testimony given by ho 1 as one of the four tour deputy Gher- Gher sher sheriffs iffs at the Gardner ranch In WeIby at the time of the tha tragedy Her I Herringer ringer C ringer testified that the officers sent ent to the ranch with legal docu docu- documents docu- docu documents documents ments In their possession foi tot the taking of some cattle Gardne had hadon on the tho ranch In order to satisfy a alien alien lien held by Irvine Irvine and Don Gardner went to the ranch the same day They rode a motor motor- motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle cycle while the tour four deputies sent ent entIn In Irvines Irvine's car Herringer said Mrs Irs Gardner used vile epithets In addressing In lne Ir Ine on that oc- oc oc calon cation said eald on the stand lr lre e threatened to slap her face but Heninger Interfered and stopped further controversy ho he said Mrs Irs Girdner Grdner In her rage picked up two largo large stones tones and to hurl them at In Irine Ine Ineas as the men entered the corl conal 1 for tor forthe the purpose of ot taking tho the cattle and again Herringer pleaded It It Ither her to be calm and avoid trouble he stated DRAWN BY SHOTS The 1 witness said sald ho was near the Gardner barn It with sith It the others when the tiring firIng of ot a gun near the house was heard beard All turned their attention to the scene of the shoot shoot- shootIng shooting ing InS and saw Deputy Sheriff Stuart runnIng from the door of the house toward the barn where 1 here the others ere but be he fell tell to the ground after atter coming cominS about 20 feet teet Gard Gard- Gard Gardner ner ncr tollo followed ed with gun In arm and told the others othen to back back oft off and a defiant mood said Her ifer- t ringer I He was ns as on the stand when the court session ended and sili II take the stand today I Deputy Sheriff Mathews u related practically the tho same as If CI ringer I |