The Washington times., 1924-08-18
PHYSICIANS
EXAMINE
ACCUSED
BOXER
over-deveIoped Pugnacity Was
lnfIamed BY Liquor, They
Report
BY COPELAND BURG,
International News Service.


LOS ANGELES, Calf, Aug.
1S.-"Kid" Mccoy, accused of kill
ing his sweetheart, Mrs. Teresa
Mors, has an Exalted ego." ac-
cording to the report which will
be submitted to the district at
torney by three alienists who ex-
amined the former pugilist Sat-
urday, it was learned today.
McCoy's exalted ego" or, as
the alienists will amplify, "his
exaggerated opinion of his own
Importance" combined with an
"oyerdeveloped instinct of pug
nacity" inflamed by liquor, drove
him, they declared, to kill Mrs.
Mors, according to the deductions
Of the three physicians.
Early today District Attorney
Reyes dispatched detectives in an
attempt to run down two new sen.
sational developments.
Actor Sought
These were:
/. A motion picture actor whose
identity was not revealed was
sought. 1t was reported to Keyes
by a woman that Mccoy confessed
to this actor about midnight Tues
day, the night of Mrs. Mors' death,
that he had killed the woman he
was living with"
Q. James F. Lawney, night man.
ager of a Hollywood garage, in
formed authorities that Albert Mors,
former husband of the dead woman,
visited the garage at 5 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
IT cannot place reliance on either
Of the two new developments at
this time. but both will be fully in
vestigated," Keyes said.
IF Lawney's story is true, Mors
did not tell me all regarding his
Whereabouts before and after Mrs.
Mors death. At the time Mors was
at the garage, according to Lawney,
he told me he was asleep in q
hotel under an assumed name.
Mors will be requestioned today,
Keyes said.
The district attorney confirmed
the report that a woman had in
formed his office Saturday that q
motion picture actor had told her
to call the authorities regarding Nc.
Coy's alleged confession. She said
the actor was walking near the Not
tingham apartments, where Mrs.
Mors died, about midnight Tuesday.
He met his friend, Mccoy, who was
driving a car. Mccoy took him to
his home in Hollywood. and on the
way told him he had KILLED the
woman he was living with at the
Nottingham" Mccoy, his conf
dant, told the woman, had been
drinking.
To Inform Police.
Wednesday the actor went into
the country on location" and had
not returned today. Before he de.
to inform the authorities Of McCoy's
alleged confession, she said.
II do not think Mors had any
thing to do with Mrs. Mors' death
and ! am going before the grand
Jury tomorrow to ask for an indict.
ment charging Norman Selby with
murder in the first degree" Reyes
declared.
Lawney, the garage manager, as.
serted Mors had visited his garage
TO borrow a flashlight. He said
Mors was driving car which car.
ried q number under which Mrs
Mors' car was registered. In this
car officers had previously found a
blood-stained AK handle. Mccoy
was alleged by the police to have
been driving the Mors car the night
Of the woman's death. Questioning
Of the motion picture actor, who al
legged Mccoy confessed to him, was
expected to clear up this angle OF
Lawney's story.
Lawney, the motion picture actor
and Mrs. Jennie Thomas, Mccoy
sister. may all be called to testify
before the grand jury tomorrow.