Show PRESSMAN HELD mR MI NEW YORK May 18 AP Wll lard Watkins 30 years old ohI s said Jd he vL was an assistant presSman C an A. A t v Ne v York YOlk was as held by PO police pollee Ice on a ch charge of homicide to today today to- to day in conn connection with the death of Robett 1 Hastings an a and gem collector Hastings was found In iii his room at the Hotel Adrienne February 12 12 strangled to cIe death th bonse worth ot of saws gems were missing front from hIs room lOom Watkins denied that he he had any apy c connection n with nn the killing but admitted ad- ad he W was s In n the Se organists organist's the Steh night of ot the room loom murder Four diamond diamond dia- dia mond rings corresponding to 10 rings missing from II hastings hastings' collection were found In Watkins Watkins' possession Police say Watkins nC he be was one ot of four foul from the San men who escaped d Joaquin Cal sail November 3 1926 and that lie he had served sentences at RIchmond Va a San Ore Quentin Cal and Portland |