New Britain herald., 1924-08-16
Mrs. Martin States That Mccoy Is Not The Person She Observed New Aspect Put On Case By Her Story.

Los Angeles. Aug. i6.--An entirel,
 new aspect has been given to the
 Theresa Mors shooting investigation
 police announced today. by the testi.
 mony of a woman who says she heard and saw two men fleeing from the apartment occupied by Mrs. Mors and
 Kid Mccoy. former puglllst, few minutes after the shot was fired that ended the life of the wealthy divorced early Wednesday morning.
 The new witness. police said. lived in the apartment directly under that In which the shooting took place and saw one of the fleeing men SO clearly and at such close range that she was able to give detectives a complete de- scription of him.
 This man, she said positively and repeatedly. was not Kid Mccoy. She was able to furnish no description of the other man whom she knew only as the dark, vague shape of a man running swiftly from the building.
 The testimony of the new witness, Mrs. Iva Martin, is of supreme i'm portance for two reasons, police point out:
 Tt fixes the time of the staying definitely at 12:O5 a. m, Wednesday:
 Tt completely disproves the suicide theory of Mrs. Mors' deatf."
 Awakened By Voices
 Mrs. Martin was in bed, she said, when she was awakened suddenly by voices in the apartment above.
 "Oh, my God, don't do that!" were the first words she heard, she said.
 Twice more, in anguished tones, these words were repeated.
 No reply was he lrd, only the sounds of scuffle and then again woman's voice pleading.
 Finally, said Mrs. Martin, came the last words she heard:
 "Oh, my God. don't do that! Oh, this will be terrible" woman's voice screamed. Then a shot. A brief si- lence: the thump of some object fall- ing: again silence.
 Someone was moving about stealthily on the floor above" contin- ued Mrs. Martin "When the shot rang out, I jumped out of bed, and looked at the clock. It was five min- utes after midnight.
 q was frightened and nervous and immediately put out the light and lis- tened.
 "A few minutes later certainly not more than five or seven minutes, heard footsteps down the stairway the back stairs.
 T am certain there were two per- sons running down the stairs. They crashed through the back door, mak- Ing 8, loud noise. I ran to my kitchen which overlooks the back part of the apartment, and as I reach- ed it could distinctly hear the sound | of running feet on the concrete of the | pack yard. There were perhaps 10 or | l2 steps.
 Sees Man
 "I was still listening to these foot | steps when I heard someone brush up | ,gainst something right in front of ne. There is another building just | vest of the concrete walk on the west | tide of the apartment and 1t is there hat I heard very plainly the noise made by someone dashing by.
 My kitchen has three windows, ,ne of them facing toward the front if the apartment house. As I reached his window, saw, just 8 few feet way from me, a man crawling on lands and knees toward the street.
 "The man passed my window and hen he strengthened up. I saw him tanding there for just brief mo- nent.
 "He hesitated second, and then taggered toward the front of the |, pertinent where he leaned against he brick archway.
 'He was facing me. did not get
 good look at his face, but will now his figure and general appear nee.
 'He was thickish man, about five eet nine inches in height, heavy : hested and with heavy waist line. Ie wore no hat. It looked to me as hough he were either drunk or un- erved. He stood there leaning gainst the building for fully five min- tes. | Then he staggered to the street. hortly afterward I heard the sound f car drivin gaway." Mccoy today had 50 far recovered I .om the shock of his arrest last We'd f esday on suspicion of murdering Mrs. |, heresa Mors, divorced wife of ealthy antique dealer, that he was c repairing to write the customary au- ( expected of person of r Is past prominence and present pre- cament. "As soon as they will let me have T " typewriter" he announced from Is cell in the city jail, ''I'm going to ,t started. Maybe it will help some- 2 ,e else-I don't know" McCoy's contention that Mrs. Mors P lot and killed herself despite his ef- U rts to prevent her, received some 2 rroboration at yesterdays coroner's Il quest, when the county autopsy " rgeon testified that the bullet which p lded the woman's life appeared to i've been fired from a weapon held ose to her head. u Despite this testimony and the ver- e ct of the coroner's jury, which. ad- el Itted itself "unable to decide wheth- NJ this wound was self-infiicted with e icidal intent, or by some person a tn homicidal intent" the district V torney says he Is confident that the te