Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-26
BELLS RELATIVES
RUSH To HIS AID
Will Not Lack for Funds to Make
a Long Fight for
Life
PRISONER SPEAKS OF FAMILY
Asks Friend to Verify Happiness
in Home Before Vida
man Came
PRISONER SPEAKS OF FAMILY

Wealthy relatives and friends of
Frank M. Boil. who shot down Attor-
ney o. p Widaman at Artesia sta
tion Saturday morning, are coming to
his assistance. Apparently he will not
lack for funds with which to make a
determined battle for his life. Rela-
tives already here yesterday afternoon
engaged Attorneys Frank Dominguez
and Earl Rogers to defend Bell The
same attorneys also will defend George
C. Luitweiler, charged with the murder
OF his wife.
= Bells principal visitor yesterday was
his brother-in-law, A. P. Coles presi-
dent of the American National bank of
Eel Paso, who, with his wife, arrived in
the city early yesterday morning.
II shall have two of the best attor-
neys In the city to defend me-" said
Bell, as he sat, pale and weak, but
seemingly confident, in the visiting
room of the county Jail yesterday aft
ernoon. MY relatives and my friends
have assured me that they are behind
me; that their sympathy is with me;
and l, myself, am fighter enough to
stay in the battle a long time"
Other Ell Paso persons who hurried
to the city yesterday morning were
Mrs. John NJ. Dean, friend of the
Bell family, and Frank Coles, brother
of A. p. Coles, and former city treas
urer of FL Paso. Bell received a tele-
gram from his mother Mrs. Elizabeth
NJ Bell, yesterday afternoon stating
that she would arrive in the city last
night, accompanied by John Pearson,
a capitalist of New York and Chicago,
and a relative of Bells father.
AS Bell talked to a friend, Captain
Wedgeworth of the South Coast Yacht
club, of which Bell was a member, he
drew from a pocket a handful of tele-
grams from associates in Ell Paso and
Cananea, urging him to keep up his
courage and assuring him of their
moral, and, II necessary, financial
backing.
A telegram from Bells mother read:
ITO A. p. Coles:
Judge Falvey OF FL Paso, Charles
Loomis (attorney and United States
referee In bankruptcy for western
Texas) and all men sympathlze with
Frank"
From fellow workers in the electrical
department of the Cananea Consoli-
dated Copper company came the fol-
lowing messages:
"Will stand with you. We have n
thousand Mexican dollars for you IL
they are necessary"
Bell said that he was informed also
that these men have caught ono of
the men who, he claimed. were follow
Ing him in the south.
Bell says that he is greatly grieved
because of the suffering that he has
caused Mrs. Widaman.
IT know her and I knew her home
life," he said in n rather pronounced
southern accent, "and must say that
she is one OF Gods. noble women. I
am sorry for the grief that 1 have
brought upon her."
Speaking of his own wife, Bell said:
"I have nothing to say against my
wife"
He turned to Captain wedgeworth
and asked:
Cannot you and other members of
the yacht club agree with me in the
statement that our home life was very
happy before Widaman came into our
lives?"
"It wa some of the happiest homes I
ever knew" replied the captain,
Bell is suffering from acute stomach
trouble He has not been able to re-
tain a bite OF food for four days.
Physicians are attending him.
II feel clear conscience, and I am
not ashamed to look any man in the
face" he said. my defense shall be
made upon the truth. I have nothing
to conceal"
The funeral of the dead attorney will
be held this afternoon from the First
English Lutheran church, Eighth and
Flower streets. The Rev. Jesse w.
Ball will have charge.
The inquest on the body will be held
at 10 o'clock this morning at Orr &
Edwards undertaking establishment.