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Show WIDESPREAD DMA UK I BARED BY SUICIDE DE WOMAN I LOS A.NtlELKS C.l. HaTCh 14. Widespread blackmailliiK activities were declared hured here today by X, D Armstrong, prlvutn detective.' cooperating with locij police det'-c-! es In investigation of the snlclilo! Thursday of Mrs. Emily Brlttalo In the apartments of Arthur Bowen, otl( operator of Berhcl, i kl,n . and El I'a.Mu, Texas aci-ordiiiR to .' Ii hi-( aouncement by Armstrong. n addition to charges that the woman who .-.hot herself had souglit the blMkmall a prominent local bualneaa nian. Armstrong sahl Inveeti- u'ation dlaeloeed that she lmd pending In Fresno, CaL, a 116.000 suit against v illl-t iti Ilanke of Maugcr, growing out of her arrest und trial for om-bi om-bi ulement a1 l"n-jno under the nam of Emily Samb BOWen turned QVCr to the police a miuTlage contruct with tho ntuhe Of Emily Mrlttaln signed to lt. Which ho said she had been trying to get him to sign, threatening him with .: revolver. Mrs. Brlttain. with a police racord at San Francisco and here WJ18 sought by pollen on a charge of rob -1 btng the home of a wealthy resident! here Where she bOvd been emplotl S k Bowen tobl the police that he met Mrs. Urlttaln about a month ago. Bowen suld Mrs. P.nttaln had been insistent that he marrv her an I threatened him with deatli If ho re-fused re-fused to marry her when hit wl obtained a divorce In the cast. Dolice working on the robbery in a home here found clows which led fI them to an apartment house In tho , downtown section here. Thoy were ll seeking Mrs. Brlttain and fouTicl het . JH with Bowen. Sh. quailed at first but VH regained her composure and said 111, ii Willingly go with the officer- out a.iKsa a icw moments 10 arrange ar-range her attire. She went into lb. i' bathroom and locked the door. De-tectlvea De-tectlvea after wnitlng a short tlnn-beenrne tlnn-beenrne suspicious. Four .hots were pH heard. Thuy broke dov'n the bath-room bath-room door and found an open win-ilt.v. win-ilt.v. The body of Mrs. Brlttain waa H found, a revolver In her hand, at the foot of a llkht wall on which th-? bathroom window opened. Bowen wus arrested on a charge of violating a local ordinance, pending Investigation. |