Show MOTIVE FOR A MURDER Lpary Confesses Relations With Mrs Bowers WOMAN IS STILL IN JAIL Application for Writ ef f Habeas Corpus Continued San Francisco Police Confident They Will Fix the Murder on Mrs Bowers or Her Sister San Francisco Aug SI Patrick I Leary has confessed to relations oC intimacy in-timacy with Mrs Martha Bowers and the police are certain they have at last discovered a motive for the death of Martin Bowers The detectives were pressed for a fresh clue when they decided to take Leary out to the place where he lived He had steadfastly maintained that he could neither read nor write and therefore was unable to tell the street number of his abode But he piloted the officers to the lodginghouse The landlady was questioned ns to Learys movements during the early part of last week and said that he had not been home since Tuesday i When the prisoner was confronted I with this statement and requested to explain ex-plain where he had been he admitted after some reluctance that he was at the Bowers house In company with Mrs Bowers and subsequently went Into full details The application for a writ of habeas corpus In the case of Mrs Martha Bow era and her sister Mrs Sutton who are being held at the Hal of Justice on suspicion sus-picion of having murdered Martin L Bowers husband or the former by adminIstering ad-minIstering arsenic came up for hearing In Superior Judge Cooks court today but was continued until tomorrow owing to the failure of the attorney for the two women wo-men to file certaIn papers necessary to pioperly bring the mater before the courl Thc police and the District Attomcj slate Hint Lucre IN little danger that the women will bo released on habeas corpu but that tboy will bo charged with murder mur-der by formal complaint as soon an such action becomes necessary to bold them IH dotccLlVcis In charge of the Investigation Investi-gation into time auspicious details surrounding sur-rounding time clcnth of Bowers are jjnth crirg evidence which they declare will ultimately bring time roaponslblllly for the crime hump to one of tho two women and I perhaps both |