Arizona republican., 1921-08-14
Women Denies Alibi
 Story or HighfolDer
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rography, but in misspeiling, said the
 expert.
 Hightower is held incommunicado
 tonight, with a renewal of the grill ing to which he has been subjected
 internationally for three days immin-
 ent. Somewhere else in San Fran
 cisco, her address known only to the
 police, is Doris Shirley, who came
 from Fresno to testify voluntarily. :
 Hightower was confronted with the
 woman today; he denied he ever had
 seen her. Miss Shirley denied his
 statements that he accompanied her
 on an automobile trip from San Fran
 cisco to San Jose and return on the night of Tuesday, August 2, when Father Heslin was taken away. T did not leave the city with him that night she said She admitted having driven with him in an auto-
 mobile to cafe. but she said she left him there and went later to a theater.
 We have checked back on Miss | Shirley's story and find that she has l told the truth Captain of Detective Duncan Matheson said. James Mur- ray, San Francisco congressman. l brought to the police station a tent
 flap which he said he had found 25 feet from Father Heslin's grave at
 Salada Beach, half hidden by the l wind-whipped sands and the scrubby l brush. It had been filled with straw, l he said, and when rolled out re- senbled a litter. There were black
 and red spots on it. It is not sup posed by the police that these spots
 are bloodmarlss. Murray also had a AS calibre pistol bullet which he found on the grave
 The testimony of these witnesses 1 forced an admission by Hightower according to Captain Matheson, that ! he owned a tent which was found ir
 his room yesterday, and that he ha6
 taken the tent to a point near tht
 grave and set it up there. q used it for a picnic party" h. explained.
 Then Hightower was confronted with a target rifle, a holster for Al automatic pistol and holster bel containing two .45 calibre cartridges all of which were found under hi
 name in San Francisco pawn shor The police said he admitted owner ship. explaining that he had sold tn pistol in the holster to a man he me in Union square here on August the day after Father Heslin. disap peared.
 The many contradictions adducet against his story left Hightowe surly stubborn and uncommunica tive today. Once he clamped his han, against the lens of camera in tn hands of a newspaper man and sai' testify: That's enough"
 The police said today that he ha eaten little or nothing since the ex animation began.
 T do not believe he will confess, i said Assistant District Attorne Golden of San Francisco. "He realiz 7, es it is a battle of wits and he \ keenlv anxious to win it." While the police were workin l their way toward a solution of tn mystery the funeral of Father Hesli took place from St. Mary's eathedrs with thousands in attendance. In terment was in Holy Cross cemeter, only a short distance from Fathe H Heslin's parish at Colma. [ Indirect threats of violence agains him caused the police today to sup press all information concerning tn future movements of Hightower. He will be spirited out of the cit ' when we feel 1t is safe to take hiI away" Golden said today. We wi Estake no chances with a lynching.'