Show Two Widows Mourn Death of Former Oklahoma Publisher Who Killed Self I YUMA YUl Ariz Aria April 8 Associated Press Two Press Tito widows today mourned the death here of a newspaper publisher publisher pub pub- lisher usher known m to one as Hutton Bel- Bel lab Jah formerly of the Altus Okla Okia Times Democrat and to the other as William WilHam Lee of the Yuma Sentinel They and other relatives and friends gathered to patch together the partly obscured pat pattern rem of ot his life Ilfe He shot himself Monday Bellah a a. promising young Oklahoman Okla- Okla homan sold his interest in the Times-Democrat Times In October 1929 to Harrington n Wimberly his business associate and went to Los Angeles He dropped out of sight there two months later after heavy stock market market mar mar- ket losses leaving behind his wife and infant son i S h He appeared later in Madison Wis as William Lee a 0 n nervous man nian supposedly sup sup- wounded In the world war He married E Edna lna Louise Schatz a music teacher in Rockford Ill Jul July 17 17 1930 The following October he came here and purchased the Senti Sent nel nd But he found seclusion difficult for foran foran an active newspaper man even en on tho the desert Former Oklahoman Oklahomans thought they recognized him in hi Algodones Algodones Al- Al god godones ones Just across the border and arid told Wimberly about It It He sent for copies caples of the Sentinel and said he recognized a marked similarity inthe Inthe in inthe columnist for forthe forthe forthe the style stylo of Bill Lee the Sentinel and that of Bellah formerly formerly formerly for for- merly of ot the Times When Continued oo on Pace n Two Two Widows Mourn Death of Former Oklahoma Publisher Who Killed Self Continued from Pate ce One Oce h he learned of ot Lees Lee's death he be telegraphed telegraphed telegraphed tele tele- graphed Mrs Bellah f fLee Lee left a a. note referring l his s No 2 widow to Lew H. H Wentz Wentz lentz wealthy Ponca City oil man and member of the tho Oklahoma state l highway com corn mission He will wUl know what to do the note said Lee already had written Wentz but the letter did not reach the oil man until j ye yesterday esterday It said Should you have time to answer this let me have information of that which I dare not seek dread to hear yet et long for most I have ha a white elephant here that has been almost Impossible to toO keep out of the hands of the sher her lit iff When it Jt goes I am afoot as It tt were unless it can be saved by a scheme I have on now I would like to see you when you come through here Wentz said he would have been glad to aid Bellah BelIah and that he be believed the first part of the letter referred to Information about Mrs Bellah A second child chUd was born boru to her four months after he left Mrs Bellah Bellah came here to claim her husbands husband's body Bellah's second widow was near a collapse Until he lie was dead she said I never suspected he had another wife or that his name was not Lee |