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CH. S-1313 Lesser Charge Given Mother in 'Mercy Killing' A murder charge against Mrs- St at 8 p.m. today. Proceeds will go to Polio Foundation through the March of Dimes REHEARSAL IN WIFE SLAYING DISCLOSED Victim's Story of Mexican Horror Trip Week Before Death Revealed by Her Lawyer Philip Bruno, 36-year-old machinist, staged a weird "dress rehearsal for murder" with his estranged wife Helen Louise, 28, a week before he murdered her in Baja California, The Times learned yesterday. campaign.

"1LI" Elizabeth Wescott Fraps in the "mercy killing" of her 18-year-old mentally Incompetent daughter Joanne was changed in Santa Monica Superior Court With Mrs. Fred Beck THE PIPE SHOP in the Trrmpr Market in run bv a yesterday to a charge of In voluntary manslaughter. lady Mrs. Cy Pruner. While Mrs.

Fraps pleaded guilty to Bruno startled Hollywood police Sunday night when he walked in and admitted he had stabbed his estranged wife to death in a rented convertible coupe between Tijuana and Ro-sarita Beach in Baja California. He told officers he left her body in the trunk of the car. the lesser charge and it was an nounced that sentence would be pronounced on the 44-year- it may seem odd that a laay would be a tobacconist, or a tobacconiste I suppose, the oddity here is readily explained when we consider that this lady took over the old Culver City housewife Feb. 16. Meanwhile, she is free on which he abandoned in Tijuana, $5000 baiL business following the pass iW her husband, an au Mother 8hooU Self and returned to Los Angeles by taxicab.

Divorce Suit Filed According to police records thority on pipe tobaccos and on The blond wife had filed suit Mr. Pruner think that I (Mrs. of last Aug. 29, Mrs. Fraps gave her daughter sleeping pills and then lay down beside her on a Back) am sem tort at sorceress, a witch or.

a beautiful fairy, mavbe. bed and shot herself with The day at about rifle. She later recovered from for divorce from Bruno only last Wednesday, and Bruno was served Friday with an order to show cause why. a restraining order should not be issued. Mrs.

Bruno, when conferring with her attorney, James Na-toli, last an. 12, told him of a 5 p.m. I phoned her. (Farm this serious wound. ers Market is biz now.

We A number of notes were found in which Mr. Fraps ex phone from one end to the other.) pressed fear that her daughter, who was said to have the mentality of a child 6 or 7 years old. "How An vou like vour new weird trip she had taken with presents the double duty SLAIN The body of Mrs. Helen Lquise Bruno, 28, was found in trunk of auto at Tijuana. Husband Philip G.

an ex-convict, said he stabbed her. would be unable to take care 6f shadow-box display cases?" herself in the event of the Bruno to Mexico the previous Saturday night She told the attorney she had gone out to dinner with her mother death. I asked. Mrs. Pruner said "Oh, thev'ra sinrolv Iov Hey Care of Child Cited husband, from whom she sepa Judge Rhodes made the Drive, since her estrangement from her husband.

Yesterday- afternoon Bruno compote. Unscrew the crystal -dish and the sterling base becomes a candlestick. Gift perfect for the one who has everything. $6.75 Federal tax Included rated the day after last Christmas, and after dinner they had How do you know about my shadow boxes? They just this minute were brought in the was taker! to the office of Dist change on recommendation received from Dep. Mervyn Aggeler, who stressed the mother's "vigilant care and gone for a ride in a convertible coupe he had rented in Los Angeles.

Atty. Roll for more interroga door and nobody even KNOWS about them An." I said, addin a anas tion, and then was booked in protection of her idiot daughter" since birth. HELD IN SLAYING Police say Philip Bruno has confessed slaying his wife. Timet photo i Pick and Shovel In the rear seat of the con Codnty Jail as a murder suspect for Mexican authorities. nice witchy cackle which "It is believed that a trial of Mrs.

Bruno body, which was MewmMiit eMidgel VeWeMet rf tMA (gas Qsamem co yesterday that he and his wife argued over terms of the divorce she had filed against him; that he didn't object to the divorce as such but was opposed to the financial demands, such as attorneys' fees, that she had made. At the height of the argument, he said, he snapped open his switch-blade pocket knife and stabbed her. He said he threw the knife away but can't remember where. "Then I drove back to Tijuana," he said, "and parked the car. After I wiped the blood off my hands; I walked to the street and called a cab." vertible, she said, she noticed a brand-new pick and shovel.

But she thought nothing of that at the time. this matter would paint a picture so compelling in its appeal to pity that a "conviction of murder would be most un argued in his car near Rosarita Beach. Mexican police officers said She told the lawyer that as likely," Aggeler said. "It is a question whether such a con the woman's body bore five stab marks over the heart and found in the automobile parked in the lot of the Commercial Hotel in Tijuana, was taken to the morgue in the Baja California city. Authorities there said they plan to prosecute Bruno there for the murder, and that a Tijuana police detective, Lt.

Elizio Casas, will come to Los Angeles to interrogate him today or tomorrow. viction would be morally or they were driving she fall asleep and that when she awakened she found they were driving on the highway between comes easy to me. I couia just feel Mrs. Pruner's alarm on the other end of the wire. "You have some one with you in the shop," I said.

"It's a woman. She's an interior decorator." Mrs. Pruner gasped. "Ask her if she's lost something" I said. Mrs.

Pruner asked Mrs. Wittaker the question, Mrs. WittnVer heinor a decorator even legally desirable. one on the cheek and that Tijuana and Ensenada. She said her husband her legs bore severe pavement burns as though she had been dragged some distance.

PEUUY-0VJSLEV THt MUSIC STOkt WITH IfCrftOfVfC SXPtRliNCI stopped the car at her request and she demanded that he return her to Los Angeles. Suspect on Cratches Bruno, on crutches because of "He said he rode in that cab to the border, where he dismissed it, walked across the border, and took, another cab to Los Angeles and to his home, who had designed and just a recurrent leg injury, obvious delivered the shadow ooxes. There was a Dause and Pleads for Life 'The woman told the lawyer that Bruno then produced knife and told her he was going to kill her, and that she plead 5640 Santa Monica Blvd. Booked at Jail ly couldn't have carried the woman's body but would have been forced to drag her, Lt. Seventeen years experience with rhoutandt of Hammond electric musical instruments your asiurance that Penny-Owsfey can and will properly Install and service your Magnavox.

then Mrs. Pruner said "Why yes, she says she did lose He said he arrived hbme at Although the suspect cooperative attitude toward officers had not changed during the day, yesterday afternoon Bruno declined to state whether he will waive extradition to Mexico. He asked that he be allowed to send a telegram to relatives in Rochester, N.Y., and indicated that he plans to request money with which to hire an attorney. I don't want to say any more," he declared, "until I talk to a lawyer." ed frantically with him to Cummings said. The machinist, about 7 a.m., and after brood who bears 16 tattoo marks on her "Don't tell me." I inter spare her life and take her home.

ing about the murder all day, walked into the police station hjs arms and shoulders, said he broke his leg in 1950 and be to confess his crime at 10:30 rupted. "She lost her purse, didn't she?" Ilf was then, she told Atty. Natoli, that she suddenly p.m. Sunday. cause, it has refused to heal, he has been using crutches "from realized with horror the signifi.

Mrs. Bruno had been living with a friend, Mrs. Betty time to time ever since cance of the shining new pick and shovel in the rear seat of Bruno told his interrogators Mrs. Pruner almost fainted for indeed her visitor had just lost a purse. "Well," I said "you just tell her that shell get her Krans, 30, at 849 Gramercy the car.

But after a few minutes, she told the attorney, her pleas won SAKS IWffliWJIDE 9600 WILSHIXE SOUIEVAKD BEVERIY HILLS Bruno, over and he put away his knife, turned the car around, and drove back across purse back, (cackle-cackle-cackle.) Tell her to phone CL. 6-0132." And that' why they're thinking of giving me the ducking stool treatment. Actually what happened "was that a fine cabinet the border and to Los Angeles. Reports to Police Atty. Natoli said that after hearing the woman's story he telephoned the Wilshire Police Station.

Officers there, he said, maker in Jagie bock is tne iatner of a fine girl named Mary Bru- VaU. w)nt vnrlca in rlir office. Mrs. Wittaker went to him to took down the information "but informed him there was noth t. ing they could do unless Bruno actually did something to harm have the shadow boxes made, fane left her purse there in the shop, having mentioned to Mr.

Bruba-ker that they were for the pipe shop in the Farmers so, Mr. Brubaker phoned his the wife. In the light of Bruno's report ed confession of events that led daughter to tell ner tnat ne naa the purse. Anwitr tlii. nrnvpa tllflfc we up to the fatal stabbing of his wife, the lawyer said, the Baja California "dress rehearsal' have a pipe shop in the Farmers Market.

Also, when they're painted. Mrs. Pruner, Tobacco seemed to have been a grisly prelude to an actual murder. Sticks to His Story nist, will put up her snaaow Doxes and display fine cigarette lighters in them. Mm Driin.r'l chAil til Anlw Bruno was held overnight in Hollywood Jail, and yesterday was questioned at length by shop in the world telling a celebrated pipe mixture called Sequoia No.

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