LIEUTENANT PEARY MAKES STATEMENT LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec 3. -A statement in which he described the fatal shooting of his superior officer, Captain Abram Posner. was made in the county jail here tonight by Lieu-tonant Lieu-tonant II. E. Perry, according to deputy depu-ty sheriffs who earlier In the day had captured the officer at Palmdale, sixty six-ty miles north of here. Captain Posnor died yesterday at Escondido, Calif., after making a statement In which he accused Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Perry of shooting him late Sunday night as ho fled from an automobile au-tomobile in which the lieutenant asked him to ride from his home in San Diego to Camp Kearny. The deputy sheriffs quoted Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Perry has having said he shot Captain Cap-tain Posner because the latter found fault with him and his work. He was further quoted as saying his original intention was lo take Captain Posner to a lonclv spot and beat him, but the attempt of his Intended victim to escape es-cape upset his plan. Tonight Lieutenant Perry was turned turn-ed over to military officers from Camp Kearny nnd civil authorities from San DIogo who left with their prisoner in an automobile and expected to reach San Diego early tomorrow. Describing events immediately pro-ceding pro-ceding Sunday night Lieutenant Perry was quoted by the arresting officers as saying he returned to his company headquarters Saturday night expecting to obtain leave over Sunday only to find the captain and other officers had left him ln command. "I packed my grip anyway and went to San Diego." he was quoted as saying. When he called the captain on the telephone, he said he was told to "go right back to camp and stay there until I arrive." ar-rive." Instead, he said, he made plans for taking the captain out and "beating "beat-ing him up." He told of calling Sunday Sun-day night at Captain Posner's home with an automobile, accompanied by Private Elmer Olsen and telling the captain the commanding officer wanted want-ed him and of taking the captain to the spot near Escondido, where the shooting shoot-ing occurred. "Captain Posner had been 'riding by trail' as wo say in the army, for weeks," Lieutenant Perry was quoted as saying. "When a man does that in tho army there are two things you can do. One Is to get ouL The other is to get the man who is riding you. "