Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-05
KILLED WIFE WHO
KNEW TOO MUCH
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A. Yes.
- G. Then you were in Santa Monic;
with the Deloney woman within the
last three months, and from SAINTS
Monica where did you go with her?
A. l cannot remember all that, yor
have them written down there some.
where.
. O. Were you not with Nina Lee De
loney in the vicinity Of Signal Hill
in Los Angeles county within the last
! two months
A. Yes, two months | think, OF
something near that time.
Q. Then you were there with her
within the last three months?
A. Yes.
Q. You were at Signal Hill, or near
Signal Hill, in Los Angeles county
by the road side there, with Nine Lee
tDeloney within the last three months ;
A. Yes.
Q. What occurred there between
you ard this Deloney woman at that
time?
A. She got hold OF some personal
papers | had, and might have caused
a lot of trouble. because they were
papers from another woman.
Q. That is, they were letters from
another woman?
A. Yes.
Q. Were those letters from a wom-
an that you went through marriage
ceremony with?
A. They were.
@. What was the name of the wom-
an who had written these letters?
A. Mrs. Williamson.
:, nal
hold Of the letters down there at Sig
nal Hill in the county of Los Angeles?
A. They fell out of my pocket when
l was working around the car.
@. What did she say, if anything,
when she got hold of these letters?
| A. She made threats because they
apparently showed my relation with
| the other woman.
@. What did she say, in a general
way Tho. .,s wo0,d have ne arrest
ed.
@. When she said that to you, what.
if anything, did you do?
A. | seemed to realize there was
trouble, and my temper was beyond
control, and l hit her almost before |
stopped to realize.
".
A. A tool out of the car.
! @. Could it have been a hammer or
hatchet?
A. Yes, because some of the things
| had been taken out of the car. The
front seat had been taken out.
@. Was it hammer or hatchet,
to the best of your recollection?
A. / believe it was hatchet, one
of bo tupo
Q. Did you have a hatchet with you
at that time?
a. l did.
O. Now this automobile that you
had there near Signal Hill when you
wer ecamping there with the Deloney
woman, was a covered automobile,
was it not.
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What part of her body did you
strike with the hatchet?
A. The head.
@. Several times.
A. Yes.
@. What did you do then?
A. held her down against the
ground, face down.
@. Then what did you do?
A. l wrapped the head up. -.
O. Do YOU recall on what part OF
the head you struck her!
A. 1t might have been here or there
or around this part. indicating tenn
pie and forehead.)
@. Did you strike her in the face
with the hatchet?
A. Here l think.
@. Indicate what you mean by here.
A. should say on the front like,
and the side of the head
@. Did you strike her on the back
of the head or on top of the head?
A. l might have, l struck several
times.
G. At any rate, by reason OF these
blows, that you struck her with the
hatchet, she Immediately died. did she
not?
A. In a few minutes, that is al
most, | would say very shortly.
O. Was life extinct before you left
the civinity of Signal Hill in Los An
geles county there?
A. It was. There was no sign of
life. ] wrapped the body up then in
| la blanket.
@. Then what did you do?
A. Opened the side doors and put
it in the car and covered it over with
a canvas.
@. That is you put it out of view
after you wrapped it in the blanket
in the motor car you had, the motor
car being covered with canvas in such
"a way as to wholly obscure the body
from the sight of any person you
might pass proceeding along the
highway, is that right?
A. Yes.
@. From the vicinity of Signal Hill
there in Los Angeles county. where
did you go, if any place, after you
put the body in the car?
A. | drove to San Diego and around
J through the city, and over the hill
here near to where we were this
morning, out to the mountains here to
! the canyon.
@. In others words. you put the
J body into the covered automobile and
} drove from Los Angeles county from
J near Signal Hill by way of San Diego
to within, should say few hundred
yards of the concrete bridge, this side
&c +ba a,,trapca into tho mount N =