The Fresno Morning Republican, Sunday August 31, 1930
Man Exonerated for Accidentally Killing His Wife
Ralph Enloe, who accidentally shot his wife, Viola, while they were hunting skunks, seven miles east of Auberry on the Southern California Edison company road, yesterday was exonerated of blame in connection with Mrs. Enloe’s death by a coroner’s jury in Fresno. Mrs. Enloe died Friday evening at the Burnett sanitarium.
At the inquest a verdict was returned as follows: “Death came from a gunshot wound which started at the left lower point of the neck and continued through the seventh spinal vertebra and severed the spinal cord due to the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of her husband, Ralph Enloe. We, the jury, exonerate Mr. Enloe of all blame.” . . ..
Funeral services for Mrs. Enloe will take place Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at he chapel of the Mission Undertaking Company.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her two sons, Ralph T. Enloe, Jr. and Richard Leonard Enloe.
ENLOE
In a local sanitarium, Aug. 29, 1930, Violet Merlyn Enloe, beloved wife of Ralph T. Enloe of Big Creek; loving mother of Ralph T. Enloe, Jr., and Richard Leonard Enloe of Big Creek; a native of Washington, aged 28 years. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of the Mission Undertaking Company, Broadway at Belmont, tomorrow (Monday) afternoon at 2 o’clock. Friends are invited to attend.
FORMER LOCAL GIRL ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, KILLED BY HUSBAND
Mrs. Violet Enloe, mother of a baby boy only four weeks old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Gaston, former residents of Martinez, and herself a graduate of Alhambra High School, was accidentally shot and killed by her husband, Ralph Enloe, while driving from Fresno to their home at Big Creek last Friday evening.
En route to their mountain home at Big Creek, Enloe shot at a polecat, which crossed the road ahead of their car. Not knowing whether he had killed the odorous animal, Enloe returned to his car for a flashlight, and while Mrs. Enloe was looking for it, the gun in her husband’s hand was accidentally discharged, the bullet piercing her neck and almost severing the spinal column.
Turning his car about, Enloe speeded to Fresno where surgeons sought to save Mrs. Enloe’s life, but without success.
Mrs. Enloe was a stepsister of Mrs. Carl Hanson of Martinez, and Ernest L. Blackburn of Berkeley. She was 28 years of age, mother of Ralph Enloe, Jr., 3, and little Richard L. Enloe aged four weeks, as well as Marion Atkins, 9, of Berkeley, daughter by a former marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Hanson attended the funeral services for Mrs. Enloe in Fresno yesterday.
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