Show WIFE TO ASSIST ACCUSED M MAN AN Alleged Strangler Is Said to Have Escaped from Asylum SAN SA FRANCISCO FRNCISCO June 20 O.- O. By The Associated Press Mrs Irs Mary Ferrell a n. house mother em em- employed em- em employed employed at a Palo Alto private school Sunday identified herself as the wife wire of Earle 1 Nelson elson now held In Winnipeg as the long sought dark strang- strang strangler ler wanted In California for the killing of several women Mrs Farrell identified the ac ac- accused accused ac- ac accused man from photographs s as asserting as- as asserting asserting that she had not lived with him for tor six years jeara ears and nd had hadnot hadnot hadnot not seen him since October 1926 Mrs Ferrell Ferrell's s Idea In making pub pub- public lic Ilc acknowledgment that Nelson Is Isher Isher Isher her husband was as as for tor the pur pun purpose pose of ot doing what she might to aid In his defense But not all of those horrible crimes they're laying up against Earle can be true she she- said I Ican I Ican can cars prove that on the dates he was charged with having killed two people he was with me meThe me The police Investigation has not made clear how ho Mrs Ferrell Terrell ob ob- obtained obtained ob- ob tamed her present name while claiming to be ha married to Nelson The woman Is positive in her identification saying that she rec rec- recognized recognIzed recognized intimate historical de de- details deI de- details details I tails of his life which h have ha been published by the police In connection con con- connection connection with his prison career Nelson escaped from the Napa state st st. te hospital for tor the insane after he was sent there following his arrest In San Francisco for at at- attacking att attAcking tacking t a a. woman woman here hare in 1923 |