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s. Werney was missing from her home and Werney went to find her. He said he had reason to believe she was up at Henry Schrader’s house with the man he sus- pected of ruining his family, Thos. Holman, and so took his son and a six shooter and went up to see about it. He went up very quietly, burst open the door, the boy scratched a match and the couple was in flagrante delicto. Werney was about to kill Holman, when he thought of his children, who would be left without a pro- tector while he was in jail and so stayed the fatal shot. He retired down the gulch and, be- ing somewhat perturbed in mind, handled his six shooter carelessly, and the result was he shot himself in the left hand. Sunday he came down town and had his hand dressed, and Monday swore out a complaint charging Holman with getting his wife drunk, and while she was in that condition commiting the crime of rape. Holman was arrested and examined before Judge Jones, when he brought forth his story of what happened last Saturday night. He claims that Werney had discarded his wife and that she had taken refuge at Schrader’s. He and a companion named Cooper heard she was des- titute and went up to give her some money, out of a pure feeling of charity.