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Show QUARREL HAS A TRAGIC END Gambler Shoots at Wife and Kills Daughter After All Night Row . w York. Feb. 14. James Purcell, the veteran gambler, who testified before be-fore the Hldermanic committee last Week that he had i aid police graft over a period of 17 years, quarreled early today with his wife In their apartment and began shooting Mrs Purcell fainied but wild bullets struck i hen L'. vear-old daughter Acnes, who lay cowering in bed and killed her almost instantly. Thinking that he had murdered bot li women, Purcell surrendered himself to the police The gambler was so r sterical when be staggered into a police station that he was unable to ghe a coherent account of the affair lie and bis wife had quarreled nearly all night, he said, until he at last lost control of himself and ruBhed at her with a revolver. The tragedy may have an important bearing on the graft investigation now being pushed by District Attorney Whitman Purcell's testimony, given lust Friday, resulted in the suspension suspen-sion of tv-o police captains and his story was being counted on as the bat S of indictments "vVith him in a cell, charged with homicide, his test! monv may be invalidated. "Jlmmle" Purcell was at one time a partner in gambling with Herman Rosenthal for whose murder ex-PoMce ex-PoMce Lieutenant Charles Becker and four gunmen are in the death house at Sln Sing. Hounded as ' Squealer" Since his testimon acalust the system. sys-tem. Purcell told the police today he h.ul been shunned b bis friends ae a ' squealer'' and "hounded by the cops " Even his wife wa6 ashamed of him He became morose and sullen Early last nitht thev quarrelled The were still at t at dawn Then came tho shooting I guess vou want me." said the gambler a little later as he slouched up to the desk at a stationhouse near his apartment "For what'."' demanded the lieutenant. lieu-tenant. "For murder." said Purcell. Then he told bis story. |