Show LIQUOR BLAMED BY GEM THEFT SUSPECT LOS ANGELES March 29 20 UP UP- UP Jerry Downs once a nationwide baseball baseball base base- ball hero and former manager of or the San Francisco Seals was quoted by police poUce today as blaming liquor and women in an assorted asserted confession conCession to having aided in robbing robbin a downtown jewelry store of or in precious merchandise I guess gues its it's all up with me now police pollee quoted him It was this bootleg bootleg bootleg boot boot- leg liquor that made me do it I was out of ot a job job wanted to buy booze Its It's worse than dope I was never in trouble before the officers said Downs told them Downs Edward J J. J Carlson 38 and Eugene Jones were arrested Sunday nj night ht after secret investigation of the robbery since its perpetration March 19 Downs and Carlson were said to have confessed to the robbery and Jones was charged ed with rece receiving jn stolen goods He also admitted his guilt according to officers All of the loot was recovered |