| Show or I WOMAN I I MI ING I Ir From r Jm Jo to 2 1 Belonging to ol Mrs James C. C King S Shot Has Disappeared 1 By United Press C CHICAGO CHICAGO Sept 8 1 N- N tion of the the mys mysterious erious death I Mrs James C. C King wealthy Chicago go widow v who was shot shotS I S I vh with an automobile p patty party I II I near near ilear N. N C. C August 29 today 1 was was Qc being ng conducted in Chicago New NewYork NewYork York and North Carolina C. C attorney of Atlanta 5 P. P C. C McDuffie attorney Ga representing representing- Mrs Kings King's mother S tirs l Anna L. L Robinson of Asheville Nf NI G. G is here hereto to trace the dead woman's womans wom worn ans an's ns n's missing fortune estimated at OO to H He declared that important documents carried by Mrs King when she was was shot have disappeared x S McDuffie discovered that the trust fund Mrs King had on deposit with the Merchants Merchants' Loan and Trust i compa company a. a afew few years ago had dwindled I Ito i ito to Her brothers W. W G. G Robinson Robin Robin- J son of Morrison Irr hr and Paul Robinson Robinson Robin Robin- Robinson son of Muskogee Okla Okia are here hero hereto hereto to assist In the investigation receive small incomes from this fund SAY WOMAN MURDERED Word Vord was received here her today that North orth Carolina authorities have or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered the inquiry into Mrs Kings King's death reopened The coroners coroner's jury In Concord originally returned a verdict veri ver- ver i dict diet of suicide An autopsy performed on n the body after its arrival here early S yesterday however led Coroner Hoff- Hoff I 1 man to announce that Mrs King had l been leen een murdered States State's Attorney Hoyne ioyne oyne promptly wired this information to the attorney general of North Caro- Caro I Una ina as asking ing that the investigation be bs S renewed I At the sam same time new evidence was wasI I ni Uncovered covered in North Carolina Charles Day a farmer living near Blackwell Springs where the tragedy occurred declared he ho heard two shots fired He I said aid he and his wife were we're were sitting on onS I S their porch when they saw the automobile automobile automobile auto auto- I mobile stop at the spring about S So 5 o clo clock k S t Mrs King ICing and Gaston Gaston B. B Means her business adviser went to the spring springS S Day Day said while Afton Aiton Means S and nd Captain A A. A S. S Bingham remained S Behind Day said he heard one shot near the spring Mrs King wa waS wag placed I 1 ii the automobile which started in inte inthe i the te direction of Concord After After it it had i gone Ione a few hundred yards someone in inU U th machine fired another shot ac accord accord- ord- ord i i g to Day Jay f t Gaston Me Means ns who arrived in Asheville Ashe- Ashe vile ville late yesterday upon learning of Coroner Hoffmans Hoffman's s decision said that certain Chicago influences are behind I Hoffmans Hoffman's expressed opinion I SEEK BONDS IN BANK Certain of Mrs I Kings King's ng's securities are I believed to be on deposit in New York banks and these are being sought I I CONCORD Sept 8 Prosecuting S Attorney Clement today announced S that that the th official reinvestigation of the state state- into the death of Mrs Maude I King will begin the latter part of next I week Afton Means brother of Gaston I Me Means ns who was with Mrs King the night she was was shot returned here from I Chicago today Startling evidence relative to to the death of Mrs King on a lonely road near here on Wednesday night of last week is now in the thee hands of ot the I local cal authorities An An- salesman tells a story I of Cf a purchase of an automobile by Gaston Means who the salesman says di displayed played a large roll of 1000 bills counting off twenty of them and paying for the car with the twenty- twenty first bill bilt Authorities also say Bay they have have ob ob ob- tamed evidence of ot the purchase of firearms firearms fire fire- arms by iy Gaston aston Means used used used-by by the party in their target shooting I tIon h |
