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Show SLAYING OF LEO ' TOLD IN COURT Detective Testifies As to Statements Attributed to Negress Detail? of thr shooting of Loo Tun, j Chlneso, hi' Laurlno Griffin. ncgTC. as she is allied to nave told It. to i officers following iho slaylnc In h" j . Vienna cafe here February 1, Wer .1 nlated upon the witness stanl tnis morning In the district court hy Hol.-Lert Hol.-Lert Chmbr, MtoctlVw, m the trial .f the negress for murder In the Mm leRree. Detective Chambers said he was in , Chief 01 Detectives Robert BUCK'S of-rico of-rico at the police station shortly after ; tht ebootlnp and heard the woman tell of firing the :hlM Into the man s head. When the woman appeared she way isked to make a statement by Cap-' Cap-' tain BurU. the officer said, and she was then warned that her statement would be used against her in court W VNTl.lt TO DIE. 'I don't want any trinl " the n -a- I H U is then reported to have suld, "I tut Riilltv and I just want to die." According to the officer, the nej?- ' : sii.J -h. had linliide with l.'u N lor ,s,-v.r.il wieks before the shoot-; Injf over money which had given him to Invest tn a Chinese company, j th- morning of the shooting Detective De-tective Chambers said the woman ; i old them that ;-ho came to work abou: j s o clock. "She said." the witness related, "thai h. first went and changed iter I Street shoes for sonu old work shoes j and tlken went to Leo'a room and laid I on the b-d with him and talked about her money. 'The woman said she asked Leo ii she was going to get her money and when he told her he did not know, Bhe said. "One of us must die.' Leo Tun then remarked, according ! " lo the testimony, Well, 1 guess 1 gel I the long end of ihe straw." "The woman then said she ot up ' and went to a storeroom shelf where j she procured thv gun and returned to f Leo's room. She ihen declared she' "fifed the shots at his head, 'because I 1 did ii l want him to suffer.'" the d. teetive testified. N I At the police statiOJ) the woman told the officers that following the hooting she wont to her room on Twenty-fifth street and loaded her h Klin again and meant to end her life. I She failed in this, however, she dc- i ," i lared. "because 1 was too weak" Detective Chambers said he later , went to her room and found three empty 3- calibre cartridges upon the floor. I j1 " According to the detective's testi- I ' mony, the woman told the offh ere ilrat she had quarreled for hours the i jj v night before the shooting with Leo I Tun over the money. She is also I I, I alleged to have made the statement I am guilty and no one else. I shot i nit ' him." LIVED WITH LEO. II The question was askfil the woman Ifl vat that time Ii Charlie Bloen hadi nythlng to do with the shouting and r;she declared he did not. The woman at that time is said to ' lit, -have admitted that she had been llv-j Ing with Leo Tun rather than with I 1 'harlie Sloen 'hief of Detectives Robert Burke I .-Detective R. 1! TVootton. K T. 8pen- , er. newspaperman, and Leo Poo nigh; cook at the Vicuna cafe, were ' on the witness stand yesterday after-' noon. The officers testified similar. I ly regarding statement- toad. b ii,. I ".om.in following the shooting |