Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-18
1 LIED TO SAVE HERR SAYS KNIFE VICTIM
 AS WOMAN is TAKEN
Jealousy Believed Motive of Attack on Densmore; Par
 amour in Jail

With a death like palor on his cheeks and brow and the muscles in his face twitching from pain Thomas Densmore, alias J. w. Johnson, looked dry eyed into the face of Deputy Sher- if Tom Johnson at the Copper Queen hospital yesterday afternoon and spoke. He had bled profusely from a horrible wound that had multilated the back beginning just below the shoulder blade and extending in ''V'' shape to a point right over the kid. neys.
 "Yes, lied But lied to save wo- man. I felt the icy chill of death grip ping me and 1 didn't want a woman to pay the penalty for my death" And he said no more.
 Acting upon the above statement Patrolmen Bill Sherrill and Tex Bar ton and Deputy Sheriffs Jack Ryan and Tom Foster proceeded to a dingy little room over Brooks garage in Lo- well. It was the room in which Dens- more had first been discovered by the police on Wednesday night. It was room that had been smeared with blood
 Blood Mute Evidence
 Arriving on the scene the officers conducted an investigation. A door leading from the rear entrance had been broken Chairs had been smashed and here and there were clots of blood that told of the scene of the night be- fore.
 On top of the kitchenette a razer stained with blood and a broken han dle that couldn't. stand the strain of the slash were found. The blade had been broken. It had struck bone but had continued it's course leaving wave-like wound.
 With the statement of Densmore and the discovery of the blood stained weapon Mrs. Evelyn Richardson, alias Mrs. J. W Johnson, was placed under arrest.
 Has Police Record
 On Wednesday night she had told the officers that an accident" had happened. Densmore, who gave his name then as Johnson, related a story to the effect that he had been held up by a Mexican and American and that the Mexican had cut him .whilet the American held him. It was these two different stories that led the of ficers to believe that there were other motives.
 According to the police Mrs. Evelyn Richardson was arrested some months ago on a charge of vagrancy. At that time she gave her name as Mrs. J. ". Johnson. Densmore likewise has been apprehended by the local police on an other occasion and at that time he gave Q name which the police did not recall last night.
 It is the opinion of the police that the cutting was the result of jealousy on the part of Mrs. Richardson. It is said that during the past few days two strange women have moved lneo rooms above the Brooks garage and that Densmore had been paying these newcomers some attention. Mrs. Rich ardson resented it and according to her story to Chief of Police A. J. Kempton they had been quarrelling for three days prior to the time of the cutting.
 Denies Charge
 Regardless of that statement hdrs. Richardson still professes that she did not do the cutting and further than relating the quarrel she has not been in a talkatiVe mood. Her lawyer, Star Williams, has advised his client to re- main silent.
 As she sat in. cell No. l early last night in the county jail she cried bit terly but later on she regained her compesure. When a reporter asked her for an interview she said that she had nothing to say.
 Charges will be filed in the county court tomorrow and it is thought that she will be arraigned for prelimin- ary hearing before Judge J. L. Win ters on the charge of assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill. Po- lice officers say that it is also likely that she and Densmore will have to answer for a violation of the Edmunds act inasmuch as they had been living