The Coconino sun., 1921-08-19

became scared, and drove on past the school house and turned down to Rail- road avenue, parking the car across the street from the Gleason rooming house, where he and his wife stayed.
 Went to his room then and stayed there all night, not going to supper nor out to the car, which he could sec from his room. His wife came home from the Commercial Cafe, where she was a waitress, early in the evening
 Nash said the back curtains on the car were up.
 Next morning Nash went to the Commercial with his wife and had breakfast there with her. Between nine and eleven that forenoon he went to the car, got in, and drove toward Williams. Body still in the car. DId- mt know what he was going to do. A short distance west or flagstaff he saw lane leading off to thesright, and an old uninhabited shack on a knoll. He tuned into the lane where he had never been before. Getting to the top of the knoll, he saw a hole in the ground-the old we'll. Then he drove the car alongside.
 Buries Victim in Old Well.
 Nash said he then took Schwab's body out of the car, put the two coats around it, and put it in the old well, throwing couple of the dead mans boxes in afterward. Then he took the shovel attached to the rear of the car and showed dirt down from the edges of the we'll, completily covering the remains.
 It was between and II g. m., Nash said, probably about 10.
 Then, Nash said, he turned the car around and went back out Reaching the main road again, he turned west. After driving some distance, he notic- ed a hole on the right side of the road. He still had Schwab's suitcase and had to dispose of it. He stopped the car and walked over to the hole with the suitcase. The hole, he said, looked as if it had been made by the uprooting of tree, was six or eight feet across and four to five feet deep. Nash built a fire in the bottom of the hole, open ed the sitcase, without examining the contents, placed the whole on the fire and stayed there until everything burnable had been entirely burned up.
 Then he drove back to Flagstaff and left the car at the rear end of the Gleason rooming house, went to his room and cleaned up. Then went down town.
 Attorney Schenck broke up the con- tinuity of Nash's story of the killing the burial and the subsequent travels of Nash and his wife leading up to Nash's arrest in Los Angeles, by ex- amining him specifically on various phases that had been introduced by states witnesses. In this account of Nash's direct examination these other phases will be disposed of right now, before taking up the story of Nash's travels, as he related it, after leaving Flagstaff.
 Nash said the mackinaw found in the grave with Schwab, which Mrs. Schwab said was not her husbands, really was Schwab's. Schwab was wearing it when Nash first saw him, at the White garage, and explained to Nash then that he always wore 1t when working around his car.
 Nash said that instead of a hat, Schwab wore a dark cap. He didn't know what became of the cap.
 Nash Was InINavy.
 Nash said he enlisted in the navy at Hillsdale, Wyo., in April, 1917 Went to San Francisco. Was dis charged for eye trouble after six months. Half of his discharge was placed in evidence. He said he had left it in his trousers pocket; the trousers were washed. When he got them back he could find only half of the document.
 Nash said when he came here he had s. & w. 3S special revolver, in good order, and Al Colt, on 45 frame, with a broken hammer and spring, which he kept because it was relic. These were his only firearms, he said.
 He said that when he went to the Cliff Dwellings with Schwab he didn't carry his gun, leaving it at home.
 Later he said he always carried his gun when he went on cross-country trips.
 He said he found Schwab's watch in the back of the car the afternoon af- ter he had buried Schwab. There was chain on it.
 When Nash and his wife came here, he said, he had a full cowboy outfit. She had cowgirl outfit. Each in cluded saddle, blanket, spurs, brides, etc
 The Colt revolver that had belonged to Schwab had an IS" cut in the front metal rib of the grip, crosswise, that looked as if it had been put there with chisel or punch.
 Asked about pawning his saddle, Nash said he couldn't find employ ment, ran short of money, and took the saddle to Harper's secondhand store, borrowing $20 on it. Then, af- ter the killing, when he went back af- ter the saddle he had Schwabs watch, which he said he didn't want, and traded it in toward the saddle, paying $15 in cash.
 Nash said his cowboy bedding came here by express with his other things. It was on the back porch at the Glea- son place. He later unrolled it and put it in the box the saddles had come