Show ON WOMAN AND T THEN EN APPLIED MA MATCH Frank Shelly Skelly of Santa Ana Cals Cal CalI s sAc I p Accused Ac sed of Diabolical D abol calr k Murder Murd r of Wife z Santa Ana AnaCal CaL May 12 Polio wing the testimony nY of his law and several seve sev Tal al neighbors at a coroners coi inquest inq est es today Prank Frank Skelly a a contractor and lumberman was arrested tonight pending an investigation of the that lie murdered m his wife who until the startling de developments developments of the inquiry was supposed to have died of burns bums received Friday Frida in the explosion sion of a gasoline p o stove r According to the testimony gf the th mother inlaw Mrs Mr T J Lewig Lews Le is there was no stove explosion lut u Skei threw thre a quart of gasoline over the wife and ana then o applied a match mat Mrs Lewis Lems swore that her testimony ny was based on a statement nt had made as as she lay dying last Sunday in ina ina Ina a hospital here bel She declared her daughter daugh r begged her ler to keep ep it secret t forthe far the sake of the t children n Neighbors who testified l d tills this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon asserted they th saw Mrs Skelly rush out into the yard ard of her heI home with her clothing ablaze and ana crying Why by did yow ode Q ao Iti it r Iou t l shave f have murdered me Why Vb you youse use se a pistol instead of gasoline My daughter told me mer said Mrs Lewis that her husband lud threatened threat threatened threatened ened her Thursday night in the kitchen with ith a acan can of gasoline Wh she asked what he was as to do with it ho he replied Im going to kill you With that tha she said he threw the gasoline upon her and applied a lighted match Skelly assisted the neighbors who testified against him hin hia to cr extinguish the t wife wIre bad asked Why did you do It Frank Fr but maintained that she was wad flames He H admitted today that his burned in a stove He Is In la laa Ina Inja ja a hospital being treated for burns re received received received in ta the fire jIre that brought ath to MB his wit c 0 |