The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-08-26
CALF. POLICE
DROP INQUIRY
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Sedan Incident Is Exploited


1t was remembered by the pc
lice, however, that when Emf
Pray, a well-known Redlands car
penter, first reported his wife
missing, he expressed the opinion
that "she may have become men
tally deranged and probably hac
committed suicide"
Wednesday a woman neighbol
reported she had seen a large Sc
dan slow down in front of the
Pray house Tuesday morning.
The driver shifted gears and slow
ly drove away. No one entered
or left the car, and the machine
was not brought to a stop, the
woman said. This incident, she
said, took place at $50 a. M, and
was thought to have been a sig
nal for Mrs. Pray to meet the
same automobile in front of the
North Side grocery on Orange
street a half hour later. Another
neighbor, a man, then reported
seeing Mrs. Pray, carrying a par
asol, enter a large sedan in front
of the grocery store and the car
sped out Orange street toward
the mountains, this occurring at
exactly II a. m.
Another Woman Entered Auto
Persons in the store yesterday
were interviewed, and they told of
seeing a Mrs. Hill, who at a dis
lance resembles Mrs. Pray, fold
her parasol and enter an enclosed
a at II o'clock. No one in the
store remembered seeing Mrs.
Pray that day.
Furthermore, the police say that
a man delivered ice to the Pray
home and conversed with Mrs.
Pray between II 80 and 11:45 a..
m. Tuesday. This exact time was
verified by other residents in that.
neighborhood. The iceman told
the police that Mrs. Pray had
just changed clothes and was try
ing to fasten a stubborn hook
when she bent around the door
to ask him if he had found the
ice money she had left in the re-
%frigerator for him. A brief dis
cussion between the two followed
while the deliveryman counted
out the change and handed it to
her. He described the dress as
the one found on the bank of the
lake in Green Valley.
Ice Man Was at House at HAS
The police are ready to prove
that the iceman left the Pray
home at exactly II as a. M. Just
IS minutes later, nine-year-old
Virginia Pray, her only child, who
had been visiting her grandparents
across the street, returned home
to ask her mothers permission to
have lunch with her grandparents.
Mrs. Pray was nowhere to be
found.
How the woman was conveyed
to Green Valley is not a mystery,
because only an automobile could
have taken her there in the time
which lapsed between her disap-
pearance from home and the
finding of her body in the lake,
according to the police.
The principal problem now to
be solved, the husband states, Isl:
Who drove the car in which Mrs.
Pray was a passenger? And
why does not the driver 60 to Mr..
Pray or to the police and explain
how he was induced to make the
trip? Surely Mrs. Pray did not
tell the driver Of the automobile
that she intended to commit sui
eide, and there is no foul play, so
why cannot the motorist help the
police solve the only remaining
puzzle in the tragedy? These
ire the questions which the ber-I
eaved widower was asking to-
day.
Arrangements were completed
today for holding the funeral at
10 o'clock Saturday morning at
the F. Arthur Cortner chapel. The
Rev. A. L. Ewert, who is relieving
the Rev. James A. Stavely dur
ing vacation as pastor Of the First
Methodist church Of Redlands, will
cfficiate. Interment will be in
Hillside cemetery.