Show HOUSE GUEST KILLS UNCLE FOR ROBBERY Retired Hotel Man Bound And Then Hit With Hatchet REDWOOD CITY C Calif lIf Oct 12 Police Police Investigation today In- In Indicated indicated In Indicated that robbery vas as as the th mo- mo motive motive mo tive which prompted James Moore 46 of ot Oakland Calif Call to kill his uncle James H Doolittle 65 a wealthy retired ho el l man man iian and bind and gag e-C his hia aunt Mrs Doo- Doo Doolittle Doolittle Doo little and J Carroll his cousin in the Doolittle home hom early ea ly Thursday Moore Moor Is In a critical condition at a local hospital with a bullet wound In the tho back of his bis head caused when ho he shot hot himself In an attempt at suicide when authorIties authorities ties battered down a door of the Doolittle home horn and sought to ar- ar arrest a ar arrest rest hm him In a closet cloft to which he h had bad fled I The Th elder was wa ove the head with a hatchet after he had been bean tied to a chair In an upstaIrs room and a quilt thrown over hIs hi head Mr Mrs Doolittle was tied d to a bed in a nearby room J Carroll Doolittle bound and andrace lUgged gagged d In another room escaped summoned authorities when he heard sounds lound which indicated that his father fathel had ben jeen een slain lain Authorities declared they found a bai which Moore apparent apparent- apparently apparently ly Iy had placed plated silverware and JeWelry velry valued at several hundred dollars and a burglars kit and ropes Indicating that he apparent apparent- apparently ly hall had planned to to rob the th home Wednesday night and held them up as the they theS Sat eat at the th breakfast brea table waiting for tor him to ar appear pear Thursday morning nn pearI |