Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-06 | Page 8 | Doctor's Wife Arrested for Slaying Plot

DOCTORS DOCTOR'S WIFE ARRESTED FOR SLAYING PLOT Would-Be Would Suicide Tells Police Polio Mrs Gaines Offered for Act ActOr Or Dy Associated Press Pres SPOKANE Wash Sept 6 Ar 6 Arrested Ar rested on the mumbled charges o oa ul oj ula a l would would-be suicide Mrs Lily Banks Banka I Gaines 27 today was in jail accused of the murder of oC her husband Dr James I I. I Gaines GRines year old wealthy wealth sportsmen and drugless physician Although Mrs Gaines had been beer quest questioned frequently and detained detainee once since Gaines was shot as h he stepped from his automobile in th the driveway of his home August 15 de announced four days ago they were vere nearing the end of or the trail anc and that hope of solving the mystery was wa fading din N On Sunday Willis B. B Garrett a railroad railroad rail rail- road worker was found unconscious by y police in a gas gas filled room of oC his hi home lome As he was being revived he told old detectives Mrs Gaines had offered of of- ered him to kill her husband Later police said he dictated his hb story tory In detail to a stenographer and signed it MEETS l ACCUSER Mrs Gaines confronted by her accuser ac- ac user cuser at police headquarters shouted I I dont don't know anything about it it il She was arrested on a warrant charging first degree murder Although Although Al Al- though she willingly submitted to tc questioning upon other occasions Mrs MrS' Gains declined to discuss the case aftel after af af- af tel ter er her detention except in the pres ence nee of her attorney Edward W. W Robertson Mrs Gaines formerly her husbands husband's office girl was sync beneficiary in Insurance ance nee policies totaling and was given iven the home a 01 costly automobile and nd other property by Gaines' Gaines will Detective Captain James McCarry said aid he lie had obtained sworn statements statements state state- ments from Mrs Harriette Andrew an n intimate friend of the slain slam man and nd Lillian Cunningham Gaines Gaines' former ormer office girl that the sportsman frequently mentioned plans for a di di- vorce Gaines told her Mrs Andrews said that his wife acted queer when the separation was discussed The Gaines were married a year ago soon after the physician and his fI first st wife were divorced ALLEGED OFFER Garrett asserted in his statement McCarry said that on July 28 Mrs Gaines offered him if it I would do io away with Gaines by striking him himon himon on jn the head Mrs Gaines Games suggested I place body in the doctors doctor's car and she would do io the rest Garrett contin continued ed He said he declined the offer and later ater discussed it with his wife wiCe Several Several Sev Sev- eral cral times he told police he visited Mrs Gaines to talk her out of the notion lotion of harming her husband Two weeks later Games Gaines was killed A ballistics expert determined Gaines jaines was shot three times with his own wn pistol a weapon which usually was vas kept in the house The gun was missing when dee detectives went after it and ind it has not nat b been eri f found nd McCarry quoted Garrett as 35 saying he 10 attempted to kill hI himself seU after he learned earned that detectives had requested Us his wife to come com to headquarters for questioning Sunday morning He suspected sus sum he said the officers had heard of f his conversations with Mrs Gaines and md he became despondent