Show ill 1 u i quieu BALLET LET ENDS EBBS LIFE lif I 1 CHEMIST IS LOCATED IN HOTEL AT OAKLAND SHOOTS SELF WHEN OFFICERS CEnS ARRIVE confession Is found claiming claimina to perfect crime murdered man was seeking employment at laboratory oakland calif foiled in his efforts ofton efton forts perpetuate to the too ton perfect crime charles henry cheated justice hero here by ending his hia own life trapped in a hotel apartment in III which lid ho had been hiding since july 2 2 9 when a anys t or to u explosion wrecked ilia his walnut creek cree ic laboratory and left behind the mangled remains of a man banco oln 0 identified as gilbert W harbe barbo itinerant missionary schwartz sent it a bullet into his brain dying instantly ills act brought brou glit to an end one of the most Inton intensive sivo nian man lounta ot of tile west and an investigation in which science was pitted against science ac lenco an investigator arid and inventor schwartz Sch wurtz according to police Plot plotted tid a gigantic insurance murder hoax which failed only because of its per ferness schwartz left behind a confession thit ho had slain barbe claiming timing cli it I 1 w was as done in self defense in a letter written to tile tila wito wife apparently in ili anticipation of suicide aul cido should tile the officers close in upon him the do the he murdered man camo came to him seeking work A argument followed a refusal to emi iio ae man the letter sat bald then a b h in which ho he killed tile the nian whose identity ho he later endeavored to merge with ilia hla own in a suicide boax police however declared that they llave evidence showing that it was a case of ilo deliberate liberate murder that harbo barbo was lured to the laboratory on oil promise ot of employment and slain schwartz camo came to the hotel in which he was located the morning atter attar the explosion at his walnut creek place lie ile told the proprietor that ho he was in trouble for bootlegging and wanted to lay low for a few days this explanation was aas accepted but comparing ills hla quiet roomer with printed descriptions of schwartz C W hayward tile the hotel proprietor became suspicious and advised the police officers surrounded the hotel thoy they knocked at hla his door there was no answer they started to batter down the door A single shot rang out as tho the door gave way officers entering found schwartz already dead the bullet had entered his right eye and crashed through his brain police declared that information given them by II ayward the hotel man forged tho last link in ili their chain of evidence against schwartz arranged for hla his hoori in which to hide the ho night before the explosion occurred at walnut creek tilts this officers declared proved conclusively that tho the crime was as they have maintained one of the most cleverly planned and executed murders in criminal annals and shattered the claim of self defense set up in fit tile the letter left behind by schwartz |