Show KRETSCHMER GUILTY OF ST l MURDER SHERIFF SAYS SAYS' RUBBERY ROBBERY HELD S MOTIVE FUR FOR COAST GRIME CRIME San Bernardino Officers Officers' Arrive for Suspect Arrested Arrested Ar Ar- rested by S. S L. L Police in Desert Slaying Kretschner in in- inan an Interview with Sheriff Shay today declared that he be left Lucason at a camp between Anaheim and Los Angeles on either August 26 or 27 That prior to partin parting he purchased Lucason's au automobile ati- ati a for 50 59 and Lucason left leftin leftin in lin a Ford car cap bearing a Washington Washing Washing- ton iton license in company with two men one of whom he seemed to know talked Kretschner-talked freely freety and in insisted in in- I slated upon his lack of any knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge which might throw a light lighton on the murder of which he h-c is under suspicion D Describing scribing what he said was one of ot the most brutal murders over over committed In southern California I I Sheriff W. W A. A Shay of or San Bernardino Bernardino BerI Ber Ber- I nardino count county Cal Cat reached Salt Lake today for the purpose of or takIng taking taking tak tak- ing into custody the alleged perpetrator perpetrator perpetrator per per- o of that crime Joseph Kretschner 41 years ears of ot age Kretschner was arrested Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day by Detective M. M r D. D McGinness and Chauffeur Frank Prank V. V White of the local cit city detective bureau HeIs lIeIs lie He lieis is said to have been living at 1271 West Vest Fourth North street et for tor several several sev sev- eral months past having come to Salt Lake shortly after lie me le is Js claimed to have slain X N. N. N Lucason Lucason Lucason Luca Luca- son of Oakland Cal business ss partner part part- ne iiI ner and associate of ot the alleged alleg d I i killer GOOD EVIDENCE CLAIMED We have an almost perfect chain of ot evidence connecting Kretschner with the crime Sheriff Shay be began began began be- be gan in relating the details of or the crime to local police officers and newspaper men shortly after his arrival S Lucason and Kretschner left Oakland together In July 1923 traveling in L Lucason's ason's automobile Sheriff Sherif Shay said Lucason Is known to have had in his possessIon possession possession posses posses- sion the greater part of ot 1500 which was to be Invested In a mining property the two men were ostensibly bound to inspect They took a southerly route b broad by byroad byroad road through San Bernardino and andI crossed into old Mexico and then I started back north through CallI Call Call- I fornia BODY ODY DISCOVERED On September 13 1923 L Lucason's Lucason's Luca Luca- c sons son's body was discovered in a a. half filled grave graye feet teet off ort the road In Cajon pass about sixteen miles north of or San Bernardino The skull was battered in the right arm fractured and a a. bullet hole was through the head Centering entering enter Center ing over the left eye and coming out the back of ot th the head All was mute evidence of a terrific struggle struggle struggle gle having taken taken place between two vo powerful menThe menThe menThe men The bod body had been uncovered from the head about halfway down the chest by coyotes It had been polled In blankets and the legs tied together with stout rope before being thrown Into the hole FLED FROM SCENE Indi Indications were that the sla slayer er had used considerable time timo and care in digging the grave which IwaR was about two feet wide and andI I slightly under five and a a. half feet long The dirt had been thrown hole by bj bythe bythe out on each side of or the tho the digger who after replacing one pile of dirt had evidently become frightened and lInd fledA fledA fledA fled A trail through the time high brush plainly showed where the body had been dragged from a spot a few feet from the side of or the road to the time point where the grave grae was was' dug From the point whore time the mur murderer derer deter buried burled Lucason g body Sheriff Sher Sher- iff Sha Shay said he got into his victims victim's victims victim's vic vie tims tim's automobile and proceeded to Needles Cal Cat There the automobile was sold with the time murderer whom whoa we are convinced is Kretschner Continued from page gL 4 1 S ROBBERY Continued from page I. I forging his victims victim's name to tile the bill of sale SECOND CAR SOLD In the tho sale a smaller automobile was obtained and this was finally sold to another man before the tho murderer loft left Needles 7 When Kretschner Ki was taken to polices police headquarters Tuesday by and White he admitted that Ms his was the picture printed on a circular sent here by Sheriff Sherif Shay further admitted that he ho had been In Needles and dis disposed disposed dis- dis posed of a large automobile a smaller one as part payment am and finally sellIng this machine After this he told local police officers he shipped some personal belongIngs belong ings to Salt Lake and beat his own way here on a freight train He denied that he was guilty o of any crime and waived extradition proceedings proceeding with the curt remark Of course I will go back to Cali Cali- fornia I have nothing to fac t there Sheriff Shay Is accompanied by his son Emmett Shay who Willaid Will wil aid his father in taking Kz ncr ner back to San Bernardino where the chain of evidence will be forged forgee about him at a trial for first de degree degree de- de gree murder according to the sheriff |