Show OF THE d Claims Wife Killed the Children and Then Shot Herself Jan pollee arc today trying to solve the as asto to whether Mrs M Copley and her baby Ruth who were found dead in bed early after midnight were murdered or whether Mrs Cople hot the and then committed su The latter theory Is the tiOn given by tite husband William G Copley a clerk In the census office who ii at the police station pending ar Investigation Lieutenant after examining the wound which caused Mrs death said that it would have been next to impossible for the woman to have In the injury herself Dead When Doctor Arrived Shortly after midnight called In InDr Dr Dorsey 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 exam at the police station but Insisted that his wife had killed herself The prisoner declared ho did not know the baby had been shot until Dr Dorsey pulled down covers of the bed on the were lying Copley ad admitted that he and his wife had quarreled in the early part of the night and said that his wife had taken the two children years old and Ruth the baby anti gonO to a room and thai he went to his room on the second floor to retire for the night Shortly before midnight he said ho heard two shots in inthe the room occupied by his wife and that he immediately the room and found that his wife had shot herself and without a further examina examination tion he hurried to the residence of Dr Dorse Came From Iowa Mr Copley were married in Iowa near Council Bluffs is years old lie as a member of the Iowa regiment and served some sometime time In the Philippines Mrs Copley was 21 years of ago Was disInclined to make a state statement ment this morning When rIsked for an expression he said saidI I have nothing to say sayAs As the official proceeds the belief gains ground that the case is one ot murder and suiCide An Inquest will willbe be hold |