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Show WIPE- AND BHBV SHOT TO ! DEHTH; I0WHN HELD POR MURDER IN WHSHINOTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. WaaMnf-ton WaaMnf-ton police today art trying- to soIts the mrttery as to whether Mrs. Amanda M. Copley and her three-months-old baby Bnth, who were found dead In bed shortly after midnight, both were murdered mur-dered or whether Mrs. Copley shot the Infant and then committed suicide. The latter theory is the explanation given by the husband, William O. Copley, a clerk in the census office, who Is held at a police station pending an investigation. investi-gation. Lieut. Falvey, after examining the wound which caused Mrs. Copley's death, said that it would have been next to impossible for the woman to have inflicted the Injury herself. Shortly after midnight Copley called in Dr. Dorsoy, telling him that his wife had attempted to commit suicide. When the doctor arrived Mrs. Copley and the baby were dead. Copley was subjected to a severe examination at the polce station, but insisted that his wife had killed herself. The prisoner declared he did not know the baby had been shot until Dr. Dorsey pulled down the covers cov-ers of the bed on which the two were lying. Quarreled With Wife. Copley admitted that he and his wife had quarreled in the earlv part of the night and said that his wife had taken the two children, Raymond, 3 years old, and Ruth, the baby, and gone to a room and that he went to his room on the second floor to retire for the night. Shortly before midnight he asid he heard two shots in the room occupied by his wife, and that he immediately rushed in and found that his wife had shot herself. Without making a further examination he hurried to the residence 1 of Dr. Dorser. Mr. and Ms. Copley were married in Iowa, near Council Bluffs. Copley is 35 years old. He was a member of the thirty-fourth Iowa regiment and served some time in the Philippines. Mrs. Copley Cop-ley war 29 years old. Copley was disinclined to make a statement this morning. When asked for an expression he said: "I have nothing to say. ' ' Their Home in Iowa. WALNUT, la., Jan. 30. The report ! of the death of Mrs. Amanda Copley, and her infant child, with the arrest of her husband, created a profound surprise sur-prise here, where the parties had lived since infancy, and where they stood high in public estimation. William Copley Cop-ley came here from Illinois when 2 ye'ars old. and remained until he enlisted enlist-ed in an Iowa regiment at the outbreak of the Hpanish-Araerican war. Soon after bis return he married Amanda Bunker, only child of William Bunker, who was reared on a farm near Walnut. Iater he took a civil service examina tion and about two years ago went to Washington, where he entered the census cen-sus bureau. |