Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-29
FORMER B|SbEE
 MAN CONFESSES
 CRE ME MURDER
Nick RigleS, Greek, Who Was Man of Mystery Here, Says Robbery Was Crime Motive;
 Lost All His Money Gambling

Nick Rigles, former Bisbee miner who had a strange career while here and who proved veritable man of mystery" particularly to members of the medical profession, yesterday confessed at Phoenix that it was he who shot and killed Harry Creme, gambler and alleged leader of the un. derworld at the state capital, on the morning of Aug IS. The murder re- suited in an expose of vice conditions at Phoenix that shocked the state.
 The police, it was charged, made no efforts to capture the slayer, fearing a disclosure of the "protec- tion" system under which gambling and other forms of immortality were being carried on on an extensive scale. Finally Rigles was arrested charged with the crime and, accord ing to dispatches from the capital, last night made a complete confes- sion. Rigles' hat was found near the scene of the murder and was the connecting link which fastened the crime upon him.
 Robbery Has Motive
 The killing took place at the door of the Athenian club. Robbery was given by Rigles as his motive
 According to the story given Coun- ty Attorney L. M. Laney at Phoenix, Rigles had reached the end of his finances after having lost consider able money in Creme's place. HeI waited at the top of the stairs that morning as Creme was closing up When Creme approached he pointed a pistol at him and ordered him to put up his hands. Instead Creme aimed a blow at him, hitting him in the eye, and knocking him down the stairs. The force Of the blow, car, ried Creme down the stairs on topi of Rigles and in the melee, the gun was accidentally discharged.
 The gun and ten loaded shells were found buried in a canal bank in the south part of the city. The explod- ed shell was not found.
 Seeks Bisbee Attorneys Aid.
 Rigles yesterday wired Rod Mo Bisbee lawyer, to come over to Phoenix to defend him and tol bring George Vlassis, proprietor oil the Manhattan cafe here, who had served as Rigfes' guardian before the latter's departure for Phoenix. This 1 was before he had make his confes- sion.
 According to former friends of Rigles in Bisbee, he left consider able sum of money here and has been wiring back from time to time to have various sums sent him there. | of Of being that he had been robbed of $40 while asleep in the park. Friends among the Greek colony in Bisbee, who knew Rigles we'll assert he had been gambling ever since he went to Phoenix about six weeks ago.
 Rigles last lived in Bisbee at the La More hotel on O. K. street. He was a dandified sort of fellow and with money. He was brought to the attention of the local physi- clans a year and half ago when he claimed to have been injured while at the Lowell mine. The physicians here could find no evi- 1ence of any injury, although they took a series of X-ray photographs and applied all the known tests.
 Lies on Back Nine Months.
 Nevertheless Rigles performed the unusual feat of lying on his back in ped at the Copper Queen hospital 1ere and at the county hospital in Douglas for nearly nine months. Rigles had registered for the draft It Morenci and then came to Bisbee. Two days before he was to report Or service he sustained the supposed injury"
 After the case had baffled the doc .ors both here and in Douglas, the sent him to the famous Mayo Brothers hospital at Rochester, Minn The Mayos could find no evi- ience of an injury and reported 3igles was suffering from a form Of insanity knowh as dementia praecox. He was brought DacK to Bisbee, where a commission of doctors from
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