New Britain herald., 1924-08-18
CONFESSION WAS MADE BY M'COY?
Police Hear Tale Ol Man Whose
 Name Is Withheld

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 already made 10 tine staying Of Mrs ] There's Mors al The M0rs apartment
 here early last "Wednesday, alienisll i under order for the district attorney
 were preparing to conclude an sAam- ] inatlon of the former prize lighter de- signed ta fareslall any contention hy 1 his attorneys that he Mas and is in- capable Of making any true e0nfes, sion,
 The alleged confession was revealed yesterday when lhe district attorney . investigators announced they had The name 0f HollyN ood friend of MeHey's whom the eArpugilist less than half an hour afler the shooting Of Mrs, Mors, told what was then assumed 10 he a wild, drunken tale of q woman slain and q hair dozen other persons yet To be slam,
 Name Withheld.
 Detectives early today were trying lo serve subpoena on Inc witness, commanding him to appear before the grand jury tomorrow. tniil they find him, il was announced, his name will be withheld,
 Meanwhile the district attorney was prepared 10 go before the grand jury with Mccoy'S alleged confession 10 his sister. Mrs, Jennie Thomas, his own admission that he was in the apart ment when bullet killed Mrs. Mors. and the testimony Of friends Of Inc woman who said she feared Mccoy would kill her if she auit him.
 Since the day Of his arrest on Hus- pic!on of murder, when he told police that Mrs, Mors shot herself in his presence, and that his woun1ing Of three persons In shopping dietrict shooting affray several hours later. was dne to shock and grief over her death. the one time Beau Brummel of the prize ring has sat sullenly in hia | cell. observing the advice of his atlor- neys not 10 take about the case.
 Win Indict Tomorrow.
 Tomorrow the district attorney pre- diets, the grand jury will indct Mc- Coy for the murder Of Mrs. Mors not the ,erd of 3 coron- CTS jury which last We, admitic ed it. self unable to decide whether the wealthy antique dealers wife died by her own hand or by the hand of an- other.
 A further check of the alibi of AL pert Mors, who was granted an inter- ocutory decree Of divorce from Mrs. Mors six days before her body was 'ound on the floor of the apartment 'he had been occupying with Mccoy. 'erealed no flaws, the district attor- ley's office announced last night.
 Picks Out Mors.
 A woman occupant of the apart nent directly beneath that in which he shooting took place picked Mors put of a group of three men yester- lay and said he was of the same general build' as man she saw flee ng from the Mccoy apartment a few minutes after the shooting, but be- 'ond that, she would not commit her elf.
 Today Mors again related his ac- ions in detail from the time he enter d at motion picture at g o'clock , tuesday night to the time he saw 1 ewspaper headlines telling of his { rife's death. He explained that his { urpose in spending the night at an ( bscure hotel under an assumed t anne was to avoid newspapermen, { rho, he said, had been bounding his ' teps since the recent disturbance in I mich he and Mccoy and Mrs. Mors t ad figured about two weeks ago.