Arizona republican., 1920-12-12
MAN SHOT IN FIGHT
 OVER WOMAN PASSES
 AWAY AT HOSPITAL

Edward Herwitz, 35 years old, died yesterday afternoon about 1:S0 o'clock at St. Joseph's hospital from the eff fects of a bullet wound in the pit of the stomach. Burt Heed and his wife, Cecile Heed, are being held in the county jail on a coroner's warrant is sued by Coroner Charles DeSales Wheeler in connection with the shoot
 ing pending the outcome of the in- quest to be held at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning The bullet, the officers say, was fired by Heed, from 25 caliber automatic revolver.
 The shooting took place about $40 o'clock Friday night at the home of Mrs. Heed's parents on Devonshire lane between Seventh and Ninth streets. According to eye witnesses of the af- fair. the shooting was the continuation of a fist fight between Heed and Her witz earlier in the evening in front of the Dublin garage, 127 West Jefferson
 street. Heed and his wife were ar
 rested yesterday morning by Deputy
 Sheriffs R. M. Price and Al De Witt. The bullet entered the body of Her.
 witz just above the pit of the stomach
 It remained in the body and was re-
 moved later at the hospital A post mortem examination was performed
 yesterday afternoon by Drs. Orville
 Harry Brown and Harry R. Carson to
 determine the evact cause of death The body of Herwitz showed no marks
 except the bullet wound. Heed, the
 officers say, had a black eye, two
 bruised places on the forehead and g
 bruise on the face as a result of the fight.
 Herwitz refused to make any state ments about the affair. When taker
 to the hospital about H. 80 o'clock or
 Friday night he said the bullet wound
 was the result of an accident. Dr Brown, who attended him, said tha Herwitz died from hemorrhage ant shock. He reported the death to Cor.
 oner Wheeler yesterday afternoon anC
 the later at once impaneled jury.
 Following the arrest of Heed and hi
 wife they were taken to the county
 attorneys office where they mad'
 statements. According to Robert Jar
 rott, deputy county attorney, to whom the statements were made, Heed saiC
 the shooting was accidental. Mrs. Heed
 Mir. Jarrott said, ha dlittle to say abou
 the affair.
 Later in the afternoon Georg
 (Brownie) Holmes and Ethel Finley
 sister of Mrs. Heed, voluntarily wen to the county attorneys office and
 made statements about the shooting According to their statements, tn shooting was not accidental, but wa the result of a quarrel between Hee' ] and Herwitz.
 Shortly after o'clock Friday night Holmes said, Heed and his wife, Mis- , Finley, Herwitz and himself drove u to the Dublin garage in two cars. ' fight started there between Herwit l and Heed in words concerning one o the women and which was continue g at the Finley home where Heed is sai 1 to have shot Herwitz.
 The shooting was reported to the DO : lice and sheriffs office about 2 o'cloc yesterday morning. Deputy Sheriff Price and Dewitt went to the Finle ] home about o'clock. Mrs. Heed, a l the time. told them, the officers saiC ' that her husband had the gun when
 was fired. Mrs. Finley, the mothe , of Mrs. Heed, they said, got the gu !. from under the mattress of a bed an gave it to them. The gun, the officer said, belonged to Mrs. Heed. . A neighbor living near the Finle . home told the officers he heard tn N shot about $40 o'clock on Friday nigT
 and immediately afterward he sai, he heard a woman's voice say, That h a small thing to shoot him for" Ac cording to the officers, Herwitz wa standing in the door between tw rooms in the house when the shot wa fired. Mrs. Heed, they said, was lyin on a bed in one of the rooms an, Holmes, Miss Finley. Mir. and Mrs. Fin ley and Heed were in the other room Herwitz gave his address at the hos pital as the Den rooming house. North First street. Mrs. Belle Rya told Deputy Price yesterday afternoo Herwitz left the rooming house tn Saturday before Thanksgiving. Sh said she did not know his present ad E dress.
 Herwitz was said to have been plumber. Efforts are being made i E get ntouch with his parents in Phila N deIphia-