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Show ' Hcldman told Sheriff Edward Gibson and Coroner T. C. McQualc that has wife shot herself as they reached the outskirts of Canton. This story was accepted by everyone every-one except Mrs. Heldman's relatives. rela-tives. Gibson has sent a deputy to Lorain, Lo-rain, where Heldman returned yesterday yes-terday after coming here to view the body of his wife. McQuate ordered his detention after a night of investigation which was reported to have developed contradictory statements in Heldman's Held-man's account of Margaret's suicide. sui-cide. Mrs. Heldman's relatives her father, Matthew of Dubois, Pa., and her brother and sister and brother-in-law, urged Gibson to "scrutinize more carefully'' the death of the gun girl. They insisted Heldman, during their 15 months of married life.j had been brutal to her and on sev-: eral occasions "kicked her out of . the house." HUSBAND HELD ON SUSPICION Salesman Suspected as Slayer of Ohio's "Phantom Gun Woman." CANTON, O., Dec. 15 (UP) Wilbur Heldman, Lorain, O., furnace fur-nace salesman whose wife, Marga-i ret, the "phantom gun woman" who shot and killed Vernard Fearn, i Waco coal dealer, then, according to, Heldman, killed herself, was or-! dered detained for further questioning ques-tioning at police headquarters today. to-day. I . Mrs. Heldman was shot to death as her husband was bringing her from Lorain to Canton after she confessed killing Fearn, who "had made her life a hell on earth." 1 S MBl WIHIIIMfif 111 If Wl II liHWWIWIMIIllllll 1 I |