Evening star., 1924-08-14
POLICE SAY M'C0Y
LIED ABOUT SUICIDE
Claim Wound Itself Shows
Dead Woman Did Not
Fire Fatal Shot.
By the Associated Press.

by the hsSOc1dteu freks.
LOS ANGELES. Calf. August IL
Evidence to be presented to the
county grand jury today completely
will disprove the story of Norman
Selby (Kid Mccoy that Theresa w.
Mors. latest of the ex-pugilist's heart
fancies, killed herself, police detec-
tives declared
The bullet that killed the divorced
wife of Albert Mors, wealthy antique
dealer, entered her temple without
any accompanying powder burns, an
examination showed. Officers say that
it must have been fired from a dis
tance of at least three feet, and that.
they declare. would eliminate the sui
eide theory from the tangled skein
of the affair.
Further. it is pointed out. the body
bore scars and bruises that indicated
struggle.
Body Badly Bruised.
Mccoy said Mrs. Mors ATTEMPTED
to stab herself with a butcher knife
before she used the pistol, but police
investigators, brushing this state
ment aside, ask for an EXPLANATION
of cut on the lip which drove the
teeth far into it, deep wound under
the left breast that might have been
causd by hat pin, cuts on the left
arm and throat. and several other
abraSions
Mccoy. veteran of the prize ring.
whose fists fetched him fighting re-
nown more than a quarter of a cen
tury ago, sat in a Jail cell here today
racing the most desperate battle Of
his career.
The woman was found dead early yes-
terday in the apartment she and Mccoy
had occupied for several weeks as
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Shields" In her
head was a .32-caliber bullet, nearby
was an automatic pistol of the same
caliber and note signed by Mccoy
bequeathing all his worldly posses
sions to his mother.
Intended to Kill Self.
When Mccoy was arrested several
hours later, after terrorizing en-
ployes and patrons of two fashionable
shops and shooting and slightly
wounding three persons. he was stub
bornly silent for a time, but finally
talked freely. Mrs. Mors killed her
self, he said; the shock and grief put
out his lights" and filled him with an
insane rage to kill her husband who
drove her to it, to kill all those who
stood in his way and finally to kill
himself
But fate hid Mors from him, and
his plan to kill himself was lost in
the swirl of events.
II was going to kill myself" he
said, explaining the note found in
the apartment, "but-I forgot"
Police believe portions of McCoy's
story. but declare that his suicide
defense has already received its
knockout blow from the Kids own
sister, Mrs. Jennie Thomas, whom
they quote as saying Mccoy came to
her home soon after the shooting of
Mrs Mors and burst out with:
Il just had to kill that woman"
Agrees to. Tell Story.
Late last night detectives called
at the Thomas home, but after con-
ferring with the woman's attorney
they agreed not to question her
further. on the understanding that
she would tell the complete story of
McCoy's visit and alleged confession
to District Attorney Asa Keyes at
10 am. today.
Mccoy, under regrilling at the City
Hall, admitted that he had called on
his sister soon after Mrs. Mors' death.
but couldn't remember what 1 told
her or how long / stayed"
He clung to his suicide version of
the shooting, telling detectives that
Mrs. Mors was driven to despair by
her troubles with her former husband.
that she suddenly cried out that she
couldn't stand it any longer" and
attempted to stab herself to death
with a butcher knife. When this
failed, he said, she took a pistol from
dresser drawer and fired a bullet
through her head before he could
stop her.
Police declare. however. that what
Mrs. Mors really planned was a
reconciliation with her former hus-
band, and that McCoy's jealous rage
over this impending reconciliation led
him to kill her and then to go out
seeking to kill Mors.
In his search for Mors he went to
the Mors antique shop. where, accord
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