Show CLAIMS KILLING OF f COAST GIRL Prisoner Admits Shooting in California After Forced Ride GUN HELD ON HIM Slaying Said to Have Followed Followed Followed Fol- Fol lowed Struggle I I PORTLAND Ore March 29 United Press Although he claimed that the shooting was wu an II accident Clarence L. L King 27 confessed confessed con con- confessed to Captain of Detectives Harvey A A. A Thatcher today that he killed his common law wife Mary McCoy near nur Eureka C Cal I on the tue night of February ry 20 Kings King's arrest camo came within twenty twenty- four hoUrs after tho tim body bod found near tho tue Redwood highway between Crescent Clescent City and Eureka had 11 been l Identified through fingerprints Jn 1 King sinco married to Eunice a Corvallis Ore lOre girl gir whom he had known knon two to years ago aso told police ho would return to 10 Eureka and face faco tho the charges which were I filed Jed a against him hint yesterday under tho name namo of oC Joe McCoy pleading tl at the act waa Wa committed In iii self self- defense TELLS OF THREATS Miss lIss McCoy McCo whom ho had lived hived I with forn was armed o t was Jear armed Kl King g. g said and threatened to kill him if ho left h her r. r Tho first argument ment meat occurred here as tho the c was en route to California Sho showed shower him the gun he lie sal said and told him she would kill him I if it he hedl dl did not drive to California with her On tho way the they quarreled continuously con eon he said and on the Ilc Redwood Red Red- wood hl highway hwa between Crescent City and l Eureka she sho again drew rew tho gun un lie attempted to get Jet It away from flom her and ho says two shots fired The fhe girl sIrl slumped in her scat seat I t was wa scared Kin King told police pollee Sho Silo w was bleeding awful I sat at there a while and didn't know what to do 10 Then rhen I saw that she h was waN dead I dragged her hr about fifteen or twenty feet off tho the road rOld and headed tho car b bick ck north MEETS GIRL WEDS Ho lie said he hc threw the gun awn away he he crossed tho Oregon line Ho lie drove to Corvallis where ho he Continued on page 9 0 |