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Show j Ex-Preacher, Foiled in j Jail Delivery, Kills Pal ; j Los Angeles, Cal. Herbert I Wilson, formerly a minister of the gospel In Oregon and Cnn-I Cnn-I .da, held In tie ccuaiy J;.!! pend- ; i lng trial for robbery of the malls 4 here of nearly f 1,000,000 March I 3, 1921, shot and killed his ai-j ai-j leged accomplice, Herbert R. I Cox, Just after officers had frus-j frus-j ' trnted an attempted Jail break. Cox, Wilson and Eddie .O'Brien, recently arrested here In connection with a mail rob- bcry at Toledo, O., had mnde their escape from the Jail proper ! and were on the "bridge of sighs" when deputy sheriffs T closed In on them. , . j Then Wilson trained a re- i-'-volver upon Cox nnd pulled the I I trigger. Officers paid there bad i; 1 been; ."bud blood" between the . men. A statement recently be-, 1 came current that Cox. would ? testify for the state at Wllson'a . 1 trial. ; . |