Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-21
$4,000 GEMS TAKEN
OFF SLAIN WOMAN.
IS CHARGE Of MORS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1S.-Jewels
valued at $4,000 were taken from the
body of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors after
she died with bullet in her brain
last Tuesday night, attorneys for her
husband, Albert A. Mors, announced
today. Kid Mccoy, former pugilist,
is held in the case on a charge of
suspicion of murder.
The lawyers made their statement
as they prepared to file Mrs. Mors'
will. This document, dated August
4 1921, drawn in New York, leaves
the entire estate to my beloved hus.
band,' Albert A. Mors.
One of the witnesses to the will
was Mrs. Ann Schapp, one Of three
Eersons wounded by Mccoy in his
pistol orgy in the Westlake district.
Mrs. Schapp, police investigators
said had been trying to reconcile
Mors and his divorced wife, who
prior to her death was living with
Mccoy under an assumed name.
Mrs. Mors possessions were valued
by Mors at $4,000 while the value
Of the remainder of her estate, in
Guiding jewels, antiques and furni.
ture was set at approximately $780,.
900.
According to the district attorneys
office Mrs. Mors also had her life in
sured for $4,000 in favor of her di.
vorced husband.
Mccoy, according to the report of
states alenists, made to District At
torney Keyes today, has been de-
clared sane.
The report followed two sessions
of the physicians with Mccoy, dur
ing which the former pugilist was
subject to a series of mental tests
aiming to determine whether his
probable plea of insanity will bear
weight.
Details of the report were not re-
vealed, the district attorneys office
merely stating that the alienists,
Doctors Victor Parkin, Paul Bowers
and Louis Weber had agreed that
Mccoy is mentally responsible for
any acts he might commit.
While police today searched the
country for new evidence supporting
the two confessions they alleged Kid
Mccoy has made to the Staying of
Mrs. Mors, alienists under orders
from the district attorney were pre-
pairing to conclude an examination Of
the former prize fighter designed TO
forestall any contention by his at
torneys that he was and is incapable
OF making any true confession.
The alleged confession was reveal.
ed yesterday when the district at
torney's investigators announced
they had the name of a Hollywood
friend Of McCoy's who met the ex-
pugilist less than half an hour after
the shooting of Mrs. Mors, and
heard what he then assumed was a
wild, drunken tale of a woman slain
and half dozen other persons yet
to be slain.
Detectives early today were try
ing to serve a subpoena on this wit.
ness commanding him to appear be-
fore the grand jury tomorrow. Un.
til they find him, it was announced,
his name will be withheld
Mccoy Silent in Cell
Meanwhile, the district attorney
was prepared to go before the grand
jury with McCoys alleged confession
to his sister, Mrs. Jennie Thomas,
his own admission that he was in
the apartment when bullet killed
Mrs. Mors, and the testimony Of
friends of the woman who said she
feared Mccoy would kill her if she
quit him.
Since the day of his arrest on
suspicion of murder, when he told
police Mrs. Mors shot herself in his
presence, and that his wounding of
three persons in a shopping district
shooting affray several hours later
was due to shock and grief owe" her
death, the one-time Beau Brummell
of the prize ring has sat sulianly in
his cell observing the advice of his
attorneys not to talk about the case.
Tomorrow the district attorney
predicts the grand jury will indlct
Mccoy for the murder of Mrs. Mors,
Notwithstanding the verdict oe a
Coroner's jury which last week ad
mjtted itself unable to decide wheth-
err the wealthy ANTIQUE dealers wile
lied by her own hand or by the hand
Of anOt her