Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-09 | Page 1 | Prisoner Blames Drink for Fatal Home Fire

PRISONER BLAMES DRINK FOR FATAL HOME FIRE I BONORA Cel.. Feb. B. S. J Biilett 1 j has been formally charged by District Dis-trict Attorney Rowan of Tuolumne I county with the murder Of Mrs. Annie) J B. Gann. near Groveland. Saturday. The cl'.arred body of the woman 1 I was found after the Gann home burn-; burn-; ed to the ground, and iifter a night during whieh her little stepdaughters i declare Billetl. intoxicated, had per- sisled in making Improper advances ! to her. whieh she repulsed. BlUelt I had been sent to the home to per-I per-I form the chores by the husband, who Is confined m a hospital Blllett. in Jail, maintains silence, i Officers declare, however, that on the ! wa to the jail he declared that he I was too Intoxicated to know what transpired during th night of the tragedy, hut said he believed the fire to have been caused accidentally, i The preliminary hearing will be I held next week.