Show QUARREL OVER DRINK OF WATER LEADS TO MURDER 1 HUSBAND SLAIN BY WifE IFE WHilE RESTiNG G IN BED i I Gun Belonging to Spouse Is Brought Into Play by Woman When Face Is I Slapped in Dispute I BAKERSFIELD Cal Cat Feb 22 22 Mrs Eva Davis 39 was held in the county county jail today ne fatal shooting of her husband J. J Ed Davis 46 an oil worker at the home of his brother here last night In Ina A a deathbed statement at ata ata ata a hospital Davis said he thought his wife wite was kidding when she told him she was going to shoot Davis died two t hours after atter he was shot Questioned by the police poUce Mrs Davis i is reported to have said she and her husband argued after atter they had gone to bed over whether he would get her hera a glass of ot water The police poUce quoted her as having admitted she sh shot t Das Davs Dasas as he ho lay in bed the bullet passing through a quilt and entering his ab- ab ab domen She asserted according to the police that her husband slapped I ab her herand herand herand and she got his revolver Military Officers I l Clear Up Bp Mystery Mys CAMP LEWIS Wash F Mil Military I and department of ot justice justIc dais today had cleared the mystery surrounding the disappearance of ot an an army arthy safe six months ago for with the help of James E. E McCoy a recently discharged soldier the safe was recovered recovered recovered I ered from the bottom of Lake Sequa- Sequa McCoy arrested at San Francisco two months ago confessed he took the safe from the office of ot Battery A Sev Soy seventh enty-seventh field artillery Together with Sergeant H H. K Winthrop whom he implicated McCoy said he robbed the safe sate of ot its valuables and then with Winthrop carried It in a boat to the middle of ot the lake and dumped it overboard over over- board beard McCoy indicted by the federal grand jury at Tacoma helped the officers of officers ot- ot recover the safe Sergeant Win Win- throw then was arrested here and is held for court martial McCoy will be betaken betaken be taken back to Tacoma for trial ti-ial In federal federal federal fed fed- fedI I eral court Riot and Machine Guns to Be Used WASHINGTON Feb 22 Fast Fast boats carrying machine guns and operated by a crew armed with riot guns guns guns' are necessary to cope with rum runners operating along the Georgia coast according according ac- ac cording to a report to Federal Prohibition Prohibition tion Agent W. W P. P Flinchum of or Sa Sa- Sa- Sa vannah The report describes the condition of ot the illicit liquor traffic along the Georgia Geor Geor- gla gia coast and the dangers encountered by prohibition agents in heavily armed rum smugglers who are quick on the trigger Boats coming from Bimini island or elsewhere unload from rom to 2500 cases of ot liquor each week on an island in some one of f the numerous rivers leading from the Atlantic toward Savannah Savannah Savannah Sa Sa- Sa- Sa vannah the agents say Apprehension of the rum runners is difficult the re report report report re- re port says because many Islands maybe may maybe maybe be used as a L base from which to unload unload unload un un- un- un load and distribute the cargoes The whisky runners have made re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks on various occasions that if it the government should arm fast boats they would have to stop the traffic imme imme- immediately I the report adds Seems to Enjoy Fruits of B Banditry TORONTO Ont Feb 22 Some Some Somewhere where In the United States presumably presumably presumably ably In or near southern California a I I former outlaw Is the fruits of ot his banditry according to Canadian police authorities Today request request- I Continued on page 3 3 I. I I HUSBAND SlAIN Continued from page 1 1 led fd United States police poUce officials to to eek a man who is spending bank notes abd hd d gold stolen In a sensational raid tithe ri the New Westminster branch of the Bank ank of Montreal sixteen years ago afA fA parcel of bank notes totaling 1100 11 BOO 00 was recently mailed to the local bank by its New Orleans agents The teller In the Sterling bank attracted by the crispness of the bills despite Respite the early dates they bore in- in and found their number to correspond with some of those on currency cur cur- ency rency stolen In th raid sixteen ago go Half of the batch of bills was identified identified fied fi d as loot of the old robbery The I bandits escaped with In notes and d gold The raid was made by Bill Bm Miners Miner's I daring band Miner Minel was later arrested land and given a a life Ufe sentence in an American American Ameri- Ameri can can prison The Canadian police howeVer however how- how eVer eer know that the leadership of the theand I band and was taken over by py y one of Miners Miner's lieutenants whose name Is unknown to them He is now being sought He Is believed to be exchanging the bank banknotes banknotes notes notes In small amounts for tor American coIn having disposed of the gold taken in the raid The Canadian police poUce say they have haved traced d the bills bIDs to the Tiajuana race W iek ck JJ eged Holdup Eged ared P U NG BRANC BRANCH N. N J. J Feb 22 By dated ted Press Press Press Press- police that he be was paid 1000 by Mrs H. H Robertson to stage in fn her home at Deal last Saturday 1 In which she claimed to have haven n robbed of a a. handbag containing s T In Jewels John Bailey Balley 20 was arrested d here today on a a. charge of coni con- con i Police authorities announced they we were e sending to Asbury Park for tOl warrant a for tor the arrest of Mrs Rob- Rob ertson The bag supposed to contain the jewels Jew- Jew j els ls Bailey said was In reality filled tilled with tissue paper and the weapon which Mrs Robertson dinner guests Sad ad described as a. a pearl handled automatic au au- pistol capped with a silencer was actually a pipe case The bag and contents and the pipe case were turned ver to the local police I Bailey declared he was approached ast last November by a man whose name he gave ogave who told him that Mrs Robertson Rob Rob- ertson would give him to take part parti i nT fake holdup ostensibly to aid in a a. for collecting burglary I nce ance He refused A week ago Satur Satur- day ay he told the police the offer was renewed renewed and the price was increased He accepted and the fake holdup followed Robertson told the police that she phe h was called to the front door Saturday Satur- Satur day iday iday night while entertaining dinner guests and there confronted by the robber whose face was masked The Theman man luau leveled his revolver at her she said aId and ordered her to hold up her lands ands and keep silent He tore a dia- dia ond ond sunburst from her throat she as- as ested and with the weapon pressed her body forced her to return o the e dining room I I I i K s 5 Jays ays Claim Under Compensation Act 1 Feb eb A 22 A claim ender er the state workmen's ion on act has been filed flIed by the parents if ff Mildred G. G stenographer who who was shot and killed with Oscar nosier her employer by Rosiers Rosier's wife rhe he shooting occurred In Rosiers Rosier's of of- of ce Mrs Rosier has been indicted and i I waits rhe trial on charges of murder murdel T e petition states state that Miss in the course of her employ- employ wient k ent and on the premises of her hel emIr em- em yer arid and that the parents are there there- Ir pre entitled to compensation It fur fur- ther states that she received 3 30 a a. week If the claim Is la allowed according to counsel for lor the parents It would amount to 1200 and for tor funeral expenses |