Weekly journal-miner., 1922-01-04
CONFESSION MADE . BY COMPANIONS OF
 WOULD-BE SUICIDE

i WOULD-BE SUICIDE 1 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.- After
 being taken from his cell in central
 police station, shortly before noon today, Cal Rowell made a full con
 iession to Detectives Erven, Ray
 mond and Hickok. It follows:
 "On December 6, this year, at iabout 4 p. m., l met Jeff Wendell
 at 330 Tenth street, Hermosa Beach.
 We drove to Los Angeles in my
 Ford touring car. At Eighth street
 near Grand avenue we met Bill
 Bringhurst, Jim Wheaton and man l know as Curly who lives at SIS
 South Grand avenue, where l was Iarrested.
 They got in the car, after saying
 they had a diamond job on in Hol-
 lywood. l was to get cut in on the
 deal for taking them out there. 1
 took them out there and they looked
 the place over and gave up the job.
 We then started for home, but we
 ran out of gasoline and Bill went , back one block and got some. f ROBBERY IS PROPOSED Bill then said let's go over on : Stephenson avenue and look over a hardware store, and for Gods sake let's get something over there as |. am broke and my wife is working , and my little children have nothing for Christmas. We probably can get some guns, which Jim can sell. We then drove over and looked the store over.
 Bill and Curly got out of the car.
 They came back in few minutes
 and said boys, it's easy. If you'll give me a screw-driver or something can get in the back window I said There's a man that has just come out on the porch across the \ street. We had better get out of here before we all get caught Curly then said, We can't afford to go to jail. If an officer should !, arrest us we will stick him up, tie , Ihim and leave him.
 X We then started back home and Iabout three blocks further on Jeff \ said there are a lot of good rugs in y1 store and he wanted to stop and it look the store over. I told him I ,1 would not make truck out of my : touring car and that I was going ll home. IoFFIcERS DRIVE UP
 "Curiy then said, Holy geel the flaws are after us.' then said, I Twill see if it is the law l turned onto Lorena avenue and started north. Two officers drove up in a Ford and told me to stop. They ask ed us what we were doing. Then they told us we would have to go to the station.
 "One of the men got in the back part of my car and called to the other to follow him in the police machine. I started our machine when I heard a scuffle in the back of
 the car. Jeff grabbed the officers
 gun and Bill jerked it out of his
 hand then heard the officer say, Oh, don't do that I turned around
 and he grabbed me by the arm.
 BULLET IN COAT SLEEVE
 Then several shots were fired and Jeff pushed the officer off of the car.
 Some one said let's go.' I then
 started out. During the time the
 shots were fired, Curly jumped out ard shot at the other officer. Some of his pallets broke through the
 windshield of my car and q bullet passed through my left coat sleeve.
 "As we were driving away Bring hurst said, I killed the with
 his own gun He then said, T will kill the first man that hollers about this We then drove to the south outskirts of the city, where Bill, buried the officers gun"
 Of those now in jail three are be- ing held as material witnesses. They are Mrs. Rhea Simpson, aged 28; Mrs. Mary White, aged s, and Ralph w. Pontius
 The others who are charged with the staying of the police officers are
 Willard Thompson alias Allen, an Iex-convict; William Bringhurst, also ian ex-convict; James Wheaton and 1 Cal Powell, alias Cal Richards.
 Following is "Wendell's" descrip- ton sent to every peace officer and police department throughout the . 4a1i