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life' urn r-1'- THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 19, 1933. PART II.T Liquor Dealer and Burglary Suspect Killed in Gun Battle Laid to Robbery Attempt ATTACKER HIDES 'Follies Girl Frees Former Husband Jealousy Theory Discounted in Killing NEW SLAVE LINK MAY' BE IN BACKOF AUTO BROKER'S BOOKS UNDERJNQUIRY Jury to Investigate Affairs of W. A. Heuitt FOUND HERE Alcohol War and Jealousy Theories Discounted Japanese Smuggler Held 'f of Double Slaying Takes Place for Further Inquiry in Girl-Market Activities Missing Man Accused $52,000 Shortage IS' ear Meagher's Home Visit With Women Traced beauty agrees to Annulment Helen Lee Worthing AUoics Colored Spouse's Suit Court Cancels Divorce but Lets Alimony Stand Pair Part in Friendship as Judge Grants Request Helen Lee Worthing, former Fol-ies beauty, who gave up a promising career on the stage and scre'en to marry Dr.

Eugene C. Nelson, colored physician, yesterday created a sensation In Superior Judge Gould's court when she dramatically halted her attorney's, opposition to having the marriage annulled as prayed by her husband and consented to his wish. Pale and wan, her slim form Widow Questioned Of three theories advanced for the slaying early yesterday of Har tU ry Meagher, Hollywood wholesale liquor dealer, the police last night were convinced that robbery was the 4 i I MW mn 1 111 yfnwfc atiwiiiiiiiM ii Ma-i -tftfhYiY tfftrt ti JY Vr -'3l ,1 1 yt i ri-t 'r-i ri 4J -I I xsv- motive which actuated the slayer Detectives accepted the robbery theory alter a day of Investigation during which another dead man, found in the back seat of Meagher's automobile shortly after the latter had staggered mortally wounded from the machine, was Identified as Allen James North, underworld i character and burglary suspect. FIGIIT FATAL TO BOTH Cashing of Checks Before Disappearance Told Grand Jury investigation into the accounts of W. A.

Hewitt, Los Angeles broker and head of W. A. Hewitt will be started today by Eugene Williams, deputy District Attorney, who for two days has been conducting a secret audit Into the affairs of the firm following re-porte that Hewitt has disappeared from the According to Williams, a rough audit of the books thus far shows an apparent shortage of $52,000. The same audit also discloses that Just before leaving the city Hewitt cashed two checks totaling $16,100. The matter was referred to the District Attorneys office by Charles F.

Johnson, assistant Corporation Commissioner, who stated that his attention was called to the firm on the 9th Inst. After a preliminary survey of the firm's books, Its license was suspended. Representatives of the concern, which has headquarters In San Francisco, announced that they expect to avoid any loss to customers. Dep. Williams said he has not yet determined what action to suggest to the grand Jury, awaiting the final check of garbed in becoming black, Miss Worthing left her seat In the courtroom and rushed to the side of her attorney, C.

A. Gingery, while he was asserting to Judge Gould that her condition would be hopeless "We are convinced that North hid in the back seat of Meagher's automobile while it was parked at another address with the Intention of robbing Meagher when the latter drove to a less lighted street," said Inspector oJT Detectives Davidson. "When North attempted the snouid tne court annul the mar 1 txk '-yXJ Kuniyoshl Shinden. who pleaded guilty yesterday before United States District Judge James to smuggling a Japanese countryman into the United States from Baja California, may be linked with the Japanese white-slave gang now being sought and investigated by Immigration Inspector Walter Bliss and Fitts's investigators, according to Inspector Bliss and Asst. U.

S. Atty. Frank Chichester. The Federal officials said they have received a trickle of information which might connect Shin-den's activities with those of George Wakamoto, his white wife, Helen Young Wakamoto, and Ernest Moore, a white man, under arrest in connecting with the asserted kidnaping and mistreatment of Impi Ylonen, 20-year-old Finnish girl from Astoria, Or. Shinden was arrested several weeks ago by Immigration Supervisor R.

P. Clark and his squad of special agents, here from Washington, D. for the purpose of ridding Los Angeles and California of alien gangsters and hoodlums. Shinden is held under a bond of $10,000 which he has not provided, explaining, "I am safer in NEW DISTRICT LINES AD0PTED (Continued from First Page) Central avenue, on the west by Vermont avenue, on the north by Vernon avenue and on the south by Century Boulevard. No.

9. Bounded on the east by Indiana avenue, on the west by Fig-ueroa street, on the north by Al-hambra avenue and on the south by Twenty-fifth street. No. 10. Bounded on the east by Hooper avenue, on the west by Vermont avenue, on the north by Pico Boulevard and on the south by Jefferson street and Exposition Boulevard.

No. 11. A scattered district, due riage, thereby stripping from her the protecting cloak of marriage which had enveloped her for five years and placing her in the posi stick-up, however, Meagher resisted and in the resulting battle both men tion or having lived with Dr. Nelson without a valid marriage. OBJECTION MET were mortally wounded.

Earlier in the day, however, De' tective Lieutenants Filkas, McMul "How do we know the doctor will len. Hudson and 'Baggot, all of care for her until she adapts her whom worked on the case, were swamped with rumors that Meagh self?" Inquired Attorney Gingery, when he was interrupted by Miss er's death was the result of a liquor Wortning. war. Threaded through the stories 1 if I ski .1: A have confidence In the doctor," she said softly. "I say, let him have of liquor deals were also rumors that the 6laying might have been Parting of Ways Helen Lee Worthing and Dr.

Eugene C. Nelson part as good friends after court session. the marriage annulled." caused by a woman's jealousy. Miss Worthing and Dr. Nelson The robbery theory, nevertheless, then cordially greeted each other.

was further supported when the po Miss Worthing several months ago won a divorce in Superior Judge Valentine's court and was awarded lice learned that Meagher had spent the last few hours before his death in the apartment of two Hol $300 a month alimony for a four lywood motion-picture extra girls, Velva Nalley and Kay Piatt of 5846 ve just got to Carlton Way. POLICE RECONSTRUCTION year period. Dr. Nelson then filed suit to annul the marriage on the ground that the Mexican laws had not been complied with at the time the ceremony was performed on a The way the police reconstruct Principals In Slaying Investigation- Above (left) Harry Meagher, slain liquor dealer. Right Allen James the events that led up to the slay tags Is as follows: North, also killed.

Center The scene of the killings, 580 North Irving Boulevard. Below, left Velva Nalley, Meagher's friend Meaehcr left the store at 5645 one-day visit to Tijuana. i DIVORCE SET ASIDE Judge Gould in granting the an nulment yesterday summarily or stop drinking Santa Monica Boulevard known as Right Mrs. Fern Meagher, widow of the shooting victim. the Northwest Bottling Supply Com Dentist Testifies in Damage Suit Over Marriage Defense testimony In the damage suit brought by Mrs.

Verona P. Perner against Dr. Lo-renz H. Perner. dentist, for assert-edly deceiving her into marriage at a time when he had another wife living and undivorced, was given yesterday by the dentist before a jury in Superior Judge Haas's court.

"She pleaded with me to marry her even though my wife had not obtained her final decree of divorce," Dr. Perner declared. Mrs. Perner, however, maintains she believed Dr. Perner to be free, and asks damages for the humiliation she underwent on learning of the first wife.

The present marriage was ordered annuled at the onset of the hearing. In the back and once between the dered the interlocutory decree of divorce set aside. He stated that pany in which he and Richard HoDklng. better known as Dick eyes. Hoppe.

former lightweight boxer, Long Beach police aided in the Investigation as the result of In asserted they did not hear the shooting and knew nothing about It until the police and an ambulance arrived. Detained by the police also was Lloyd Hale, 21, said to have been employed as a truck driver by Meagher and Hoppe. the agreement providing for the payment of alimony would not be disturbed by the order, that the contract would still remain, but would not have the weight of a formation given them by a soda fountain clerk who said Erno had were In partnership, and returned to the house at 580 North Irving Boulevard, into which he and Mrs. Meagher had moved only the day before from an address on Lucerne been involved in a feud with a gambler, who now is operating an Outstanding in the talk that a to Its inclosure of county territory. Its eastern boundary is La Brea avenue, its north boundary is Pico Boulevard, its southern boundary the city limits and its western boundary the ocean.

The district Includes Venice and Palms. No. 12. Bounded on the east by Figueroa street, on the west by Hoover street, on the north by Fountain avenue and on the south by Pico Boulevard. No.

13. Bounded on the east by Sheffield street, on the west by Ben-ton Way and on the north by an lr regular line from Pullman street to Fountain avenue, which Is substantially the old city boundary, and Boulevard. establishment at Banning, over Meaeher was unable to obtain money the latter' had won from court judgment to enforce It. Woman Teller Starts East to dinner at home, owing to the re him. liquor war might have been the cause of Meagher's death were reports that he recently had made attempts to open up a bootlegging business In Phoenix, Ariz, and that Eroo once was' arrested on a charge of failure to provide.

Booked on December 31. 1931, the files pent moving, and after a few words with his wife, Mrs. Fern Meagher, he left, saying he was going to get dinner and go to a boxing contest. Apparently, however, he drove his Serve Sentence showed, he was sentenced first to opposition had developed among the home-town Phoenix liquor v- Jafl and then to the EUzabetn Lake Canyon road camp where he served six weeks before being paroled on sedan almost immediately 10 me NOTE AIDS INVESTIGATION on tne south by Alhambra avenue, apartment-house of the Nalley girl, with whom he had been friendly for OF LONG BEACH MURDER No. 14.

Bounded east, north and west by South Pasadena, Pasadena April 23, 1932. ANOTHER STORM With the finding of a note indi some time, because the girls told the police they found him talking to and Glendale and Glendale Boule cating the victim had had a pre their apartment-house manager when they returned from a show at monition of impending danger and vard; on the south, the boundary line Is the north boundary line of HITS SOUTHLAND uistrict Thirteen. about 9:30 p.m. NEIGHBORS HEAR SHOTS ThP elrla further declared that (Continued from First Page) dispatched eastbound. In the SI he.

went with them to their apart No. 15. This "shoestring" district extends from Manchester avenue on the north to and Including Los Angeles Harbor on the south. Major eastern boundaries of the "shoestring" portion of the district are erra the storm reached blizzard like proportions at times. ment and remained there until 12:30 a.m.

It was approximately fifteen minutes later that neighbors Continuous fall was reported at ft Oh, no you figueroa street and Normandie ave. Twenty-three-year-old Miss Margaret Ann Murphy, who embezzled $11,000 from the American National Bank at Santa Monica while she was employed there as a teller, Is on her way to the Federal Prison for Women at Alderson, W. Va, today. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge George Cosgrave to serve a sentence of a year and a day. Miss Murphy expended most of the money she misappropriated in fashionable attire, a new motor car, entertaining friends at week-end parties and In loans to friends.

Other prisoners in the eastbound group are P. J. Pirotte, veteran Santa Monica police officer, sentenced to the Federal Detention Farm at Latunla, for Impersonating a Federal immigration officer; Lazar Goglch, sentenced to the Atlanta penitentiary for counterfeiting, and W. S. Joynes, facing trial in Washington, D.

for an asserted theft. heard an automobile crash Into a Strawberry Lake, where there were already eighteen inches on the the questioning of two women acq uaintances, Sheriff's officers last night reported gratifying progress in their investigation of the mysterious gangland slaying of Mickey Erno, 24-year-old Italian, whose bullet-riddled body was found late Tuesday night in the bed of the concrete post outside of Meagher's nue, while its western boundaries are Western and Vermont avenues. ground. new home and the sound of snoot At Sonora five inches of snow fell i ft ing, and a few minutes later tney found the dead men North In the AIMEE AGREES In five hours. The snowfall on the western slopes of the Sierras reached down to a point well below McBride Trial on Charge of Insanity Begins George A.

McBride, convicted of robbing two Los Angeles banks by leaping over the barred cages of the tellers and scooping up all the cash In sight, yesterday went to trial before Superior Judge Fricke on an insanity charge. McBride's principal witnesses were fellow-prisoners in the County Jail, including Donald Courtney, William Baillie and H. A. Reese, all of whom were convicted of felonies and sentenced to San Quentln Prison. They testified that he was eccentric, refusing to eat mince pie due to his belief that it was poisoned, and giving long discourses on religious subjects.

McBride's personal physician also was called to the witness stand. He stated that the defendant is suffering from a serious disease which might affect his mind. NEW ENGLANDERS TO DINE With baked beans promised as the chief dish on the menu, New Englanders will have their monthly dinner tomorrow evening in Veterans' Hall, 246 South Hill street. An entertainment program will back seat of the sedan and Meagher laying fifty feet up the driveway to TO MAKE FILM Auburn to the east of Sacramento. his garage, a automatic The rainfall in the San Francisco MICKEY ERNO by his side.

Here facts end and police sup (Continued from First Page) area, while not heavy, was continuing In frequent showers tonight, when over an inch had been re position starts. The detectives are reacnea Dy the two suits which had been pending against her, J. convinced that North, an undoubt San Gabriel flood control channel, twenty-five feet from the Coyote Creek bridge, five miles northeast ed underworld character, knew that Meaeer was In the habit of carry of Long Beach. uy oiewarx, producer with whom the evangelist had signed for a film to be called "Clay in the Potter's Hands," had asked 24nonn ine large sums of money with him The telltale note, Capt. Bright, charge of the investigation, an and very probably knew of his friendship for the Nalley girl.

They corded. Experts say another storm is following close upon the heels of the present The rainfall figures for the twenty-four hours ended at 5 o'clock tonight, follow: 24 lr. tt Ut lut yr Auberry 31 3.93 15.74 Bass Lak 87 6.50 31.41 Red Bluff .64 4.17 11.31 while Cromwell Ormsby. formerly nounced, was found in Erno's room in a hotel at 1108 East Seventy- figure that he "staked out" on tne Girl's apartment-house and when sixth Place, by Deputy Sheriff Con- uer attorney, aemanaed the balance, claiming he held a contract naming him as business manager Jhe saw Meagher arrive he hid him feelf in the back seat of the parked "JAPAN, OLD AND NEW" "Japan, Old and New" will be presented in an illustrated travel lecture by Ken Nakazawa in a program at Central Library today at 7:45 p.m. Mr.

Nakazawa is presented by the Pacific Geographic Society. He is assistant professor of oriental studies at the University of Southern California. automobile and waited. treras, who made an exhaustive search of the quarters for possible clews. Addressed only to "Betty," it had been scribbled on a scrap of paper, and was confined to a request that "Betty" ask the hotel manager to "remove all my effects Eventually Meagher returned and drove away.

North remained hid ur ner mouon-picture enterprises. While attorneys Involved in the settlement stated a cash settlement had been made, they declined to disclose the amount paid by the producer whose entry Into the sit den expecting Meagher to drive to his old resldance on Lucerne Boulevard. Meagher, however, drove to his new residence and was slowing from my room." 20.63 6.27 19.85 9.12 17.34 15.24 15.43 18.00 8.68 23.92 Eureka .40 14.06 Fresno .04 1.67 Kings River .47 3.E3 Sacramento .72 3.31 Santa Rosa .18 6.37 San Francisco 1.15 5.43 San Joaquin River .30 3,67 San Jose 60 3.10 Stockton 01 228 Tale River .40 6.05 uation enected tne settlement of This cryptic message, In the opin to make the turn into the driveway, The hidden man was forced to act haven't! Quickly. MARKS ON HEAD ion of both Contreras and. Bright, indicates clearly that Erno had been "tipped off" that his life was in Jeopardy and that accordingly he had been mapping plans to leave the city.

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The attorneys, Wllledd Andrews for Mrs. McPher-son-Hutton, Homer Johnstone for Stewart and D. B. Robnett for Ormsby, also refused to disclose the identity of the new producer, saying such disclosure would Injure completion of the religious film to be made. The picture In which the evangelist's leading role will enable her to escape court action, for her asserted failure to live up to her contracts, is to be along the lines of the film for which she had signed previously.

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No one saw a third man leave the automobile. More facts produced by the police were these: In Meagher's pockets was $249 In cash; in North's pockets was practically nothing, North was identified from fingerprints and the police identification bureau records show that he arrested on March 2, 1932, by Detectives Jacks and Wilder for the burglary of large quantities of cigarettes from chain stores. Two detectives had North out In Hollywood on March 19, last, attempting to obtain more evidence against him when he bolted from their grasp and made cod his escape. WIDOW DETAINED As the investigation proceeded yesterday Mrs, Meagher and two sons by a former marriage, James Iledrick, 21 years of age, and Jewell Sledrick, 19, were all held as material witnesses and the' police said last night they will continue to hold the three until there seems no possible doubt of the robbery the-Cry, Mrs. Meagher had as a visitor In fcrr home at the time of her husband's slaying Don Brown, a sailor from the UJS.S.

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