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UuiiUAV MORNING, WAX 1'JoO. LiWUi t.J Where Wife of James Was FoundDead in Pool Ml SNAKE DEATH PLOT IN FISH POND CASE LAID TO BARBER JAMES BY CAFE MAN SNAKE MAN TELLS SALE Describes Buyer Hope told the "Just as District Attorney's I got in he came men out." of Repines A. A Then, according to the amazing statement attributed to Hope, James (Continued from First Paje) Cresccnta house described by Hope in his statement as occurring last August. The re-enactment failed, because the house was locked and its tenants were away. STANDS SMILING James, however, stood smiling and bantering with officers while Hope pointed to the spot where he said he last saw the body of Mrs.

James beside thefish pond in the backyard. told him his wife was not dead. GIVEN WHISKY ITS NEW IT'S DIFFERENT I ITS SENSATIONAL "Jltis (UtaztHf Lifetime PACKARD Statement Tends to Bach Story of Charles Hope in James Case About an hour later, while he still sat in the car in the garage, Hope said, James came back and gave With his pretty niece, Lois Wrifiht, 21, James recently was arrested in a spectacular raid on a South Side cottage and James subsequently was indicted on three statutory counts by the grand Jury. He is awaiting trial before Superior Judge Vickers on those counts May 25. Advised of Hope's amazing story yesterday, Miss Wright hysterically cried: "My God, I know nothing of this.

It is too horrible to think about. I guess I am a lucky girl." She is being held in custody as a material witness. Hope and his wife were detained by the District Attorney's men as material witnesses, while James was questioned far into the night. GIVE STATEMENTS Sands and Houtenbrlnk also gave statements to the officers. Fitts said the entire him a pint of whisky an dreturned to the house.

Hone pointed through a window of the-kitchen where he said he saw Mrs. James tied with cotton rone to the top of a table, her mi tfcara anHwat link. Whh, Tfc. S200 000 MnW CnlriiriM "Ilk curt, tffit.tim. "A little bit later on he came out and said: 'Well, that is Hope asserted.

"I said, 'My God, man, you really killed Hope declared James answered in the affirmative and asked him to go into the house and help carry her out. "I walked in and saw this girl lying on the floor Just outside the bathroom door with her pajamas a w. k. mU ilutrk lknn mouth and eyes covered with adhesive tape. The woman gave only a little groan before James thrust her left leg into the box occupied by two vicious rattlesnakes, Hope said.

Ml TMIM TtT THfM THIM CMOftSI case will be presented to the Los adding that he didn't see the snakes strike. Angeles county grand jury next The purchase last summer of two rattlesnakes under circumstances that aroused his suspicion was recalled yesterday by Joseph C. Hou-tenbrink, also known as "Snake Joe," In a statement tending to corroborate the story told by Charles H. Hope involving Robert James In the fichpond death of James's wife last August, Houtenbrlnk's description of the man who bought the snakes tallied with that of Hope. DESCRIBES VISIT Houtenbrlnk, who now owns the Anaconda Snake Farm at 2671 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, operat-, ed a snake farm at 42 Cypress street, East Pasadena, until January 1, Last summer, he said, a man came to his Cypress-street place and asked for two of the most vicious snakes he had.

i "I've got a big bet that a rattle- Tuesday. At that time, he added, on. and slippers, Hope was quoiea. James will be givep an opportunity Hope said the pajamas were dry to tell all he knows. but the woman hair was damp.

It was on a bright Sunday morning that he delivered the snakes to James's La Crescenta cottage, Hope told officers. "When I got there, he had this girl on a table tied." "This girl? Who do you mean?" asked Fitts. CARRIES HER FEET "I carried her feet. He carried her head," Hope was quoted by the officers as saying. "I laid her along side the fish pond." Hope said he refused a demand from James that he "help put her "Mr.

James's wife." "Mary?" TAKES SNAKES BACK "Yes, sir, he had adhesive tape over her eyes and over her mouth. He says, 'You can't get out of this in there," adding that he left James and returned to the car. James carried out a bucket of wet clothing and some blankets and fnake will strike and eat a rabbit end I want the meanest thing you've placed them in the back of the car got to make sure I win," the snake Hope said, explaining that later he took the clothing and burned it in an incinerator. He had the blankets farmer quoted his customer as saving. WANTED TEST fc- tfuiaif 'WiJ(nli 11 ilr cleaned, he said, kept two and re turned one to James.

"He brought a rabbit and a rooster Afterward, Hope said, the matter bothered him so that he told a friend, Sayles Sands, wine salesman, This is the fishpond -where the body of Mary James floated among the lilies. Her husband, Robert James, accused of killing her by rattlesnake bite and drowning, revisited the scene yesterday In the company of his accuser, Charles Hope. James is shown here manacled to Deputy Sheriff Killion, left. thjim ohoio with him and wanted me to try my snakes out on them to find how quick they could kill them but I wouldn't do it so he left the rooster about it. CONFIDED IN HIM A and told me to cook It," Houtenbrlnk added.

Sands, questioned by officers, said Hope had confided in him and the thing. Bring those things in I brought in the box and set it down. He struck her foot into it. I carried it out and took the snakes back to Snakey Joe's in Pasadena." Hope told die officers he had purchased snakes for James on two occasions. He said he received $20 for the first consignment.

Later, Hope asserted, James gave him $100 to find some real fighters. It was then, Hope told the officers, that he went to Joseph C. Houtenbrlnk, known as "Snakey Joe," and bought two fat rattlesnakes, as vicious and active rattlers are known to their handlers. He said he paid 70 cents a pound for them. IDENTIFIES HOPE Houtenbrink last night identified Hope at the District-Attorney's office as the man who bought the snakes and later returned them to him.

Hope said his wife, Mrs. Florence Hope, waited in a car outside the "A few days later Mike Alman. "Out of Date" story Sands said he heard from who operated the Reptile Gardens on the Ocean Park Pier, came to HcDe was said by the officers to my place and, In the course of our conversation, asked me If the man who wanted some hot rattlesnakes had been to see me. I teld him he had and we talked it over and the have been substantially the same story that Hope told them. About a month ago, Hope told officers, he informed a young attorney of the whole story and the attorney conveyed the information to the authorities.

Hope also was quoted by the officers as declaring that James had told him of informing his wife that whole thing seemed suspicious, That's why I remember the incident a snake bite was a simple way of James home for him while he was; IJ rcomnnnieH him Jamcs was Questioned by officers i I V')V: A snakes back to the abandoned Pasa-i dena snake farm, Hope said, insist-! ing that he get rid of them. Then' at the time of his wife's death but was not held. Since then, Fitts disclosed, James has been constantly shadowed. clearly. "A week later the man returned with the snakes and said he had Won his bet but hadn't collected his money yet," Houtenbrlnk said.

"He said he didn't need the snakes anymore and wanted to sell them back to me. I took them back. He had a woman with him at the time and the appeared deathly afraid of the snakes and quite irritated because she had had to ride In a car with them although he had them in a box with a glass cover." The two snakes the man took were 6-year-old desert diamond-back rattlers and the largest and ugliest reptiles he had In the place at the time, he said. 1 "JH i I nil I 1 i i i i J- they went to a brideg party. Late that night, Hope said, he returned alone to the James home as he was using James's car.

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