The Coolidge examiner., 1931-01-16
Southwest News Items

A New Fox West Coast theater is
the old city plaza, at a cost of $780,
600.
P. X. Wrigley, son of William Wrig-
ley, chewing gum maguate, is build
ing three handsome homes in Biltmore
Estates, Phoenix, at a cost Of 100000.
Loid Nicholson, %, was instantly
killed near Artesia, N. NJ, when a
12-gauge shotgun was accidentally dis
charged while he was returning from
a hunting trip.
A charge of murder was filed in
Alamogordo, N. NJ, against Chandler
Massey by Sheriff A. F. Birch after
| the death Of Robert Lee, 21, from in
juries received in an explosion in Ala
| mogordo.
Jesse Moses, Wagon Mound
rancher, confessed that he killed his
wife, Alice, formerly of Colorado, near
Moro, N. NJ, in a frenzy of jealousy
over her imagined infidelities, accord
ing to officers who have questioned
| Moses since he surrendered.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
the scene of a very happy occasion
recently when their children and a
number of invited guests gathered to
celebrate their golden wedding ami
versary.
Robert Lee, son of State Senator
and Mrs. Oliver Lee, died in Alamo
! gordo, N. M, the victim of a bomb
which wrecked a. pool hall several
weeks ago. Gambler Massey, who has
been at liberty under $4,000 bond
charged with setting the explosive,
was re-arrested.
Fire believed TO have been of in
cendiary origin swept through the
commissary and garage of the Arizona
| Lumber & Timber Co. of Flagstaff,
Ariz, causing damage of 100000. An
unidentified employee discharged re-
Gently was sought for questioning in
| connection with the blaze.
Antonio Nevarez was found guilty
| second degree murder for the Staying
| of Eva Smith, his sweetheart, at
| Tortugas, N. NJ, April 13. Nevarez
| faces a sentence of not less than
ninety years nor more than ninety.
nine years. Emotional insanity" was
the plea of the defense.
Search for Dorothy Eileen Coe, II.
| year-old Hollywood, Cal, girl missing
| from her home, came to a dramatic
| close in Bisbee, Ariz., with Identified
tion of the young woman, who hitch
hiked into Bisbee, by Chief of Police
| Clarence A. Brown as his first cousin.
Los Angeles authorities had feared
she had been kidnapped
Lowell Cobb, alleged ringleader of
an auto theft gang, was shot to death
at Carrizozo N. M, by Deputy Sheriff
| Pete Johnson, after Cobb had wounded
| Deputy Sheriff Roman Farmer in the
| groin. The officers had laid in wait
for Cobb for two days at a place
where he had cached two automobiles
which the officers alleged were
stolen
A petition for a receiver for the La
Bajada Mining corporation, without
stockholder liability, was filed in fed,
eral court in Santa Fe by fifteen stock,
| holders from New York and New Jer-
sey. Filers of the petition stated that
| they hold from 100 to $50 shares each
in the company, which was incorpor.
ated in 1923 for one million shares of
81 par value each.
One of Arizonas oldest financial in.
stitutions, the Arizona Central Bank.
ing System, operating branches in
Flagstaff, Williams, McNary and Oat-
man, has been purchased from the
First Securities Company of Los
Angeles by group of Arizona capital
lists. The concern was formed 43
years ago and has resources of more
than $3,5OO,OOO
Eleanor Romero, said to be 109
years old, and the oldest woman in
New Mexico, died in Roswell, N. NJ,
recently. Born in st. Stockton, Texas,
Mrs. Romero had lived in eastern New
Mexico seventy years and was familiar
with many adventures of Billy the
Kid and other notorious characters of
the early history of the West.
Two persons were killed and an
other is expected to die and three
more were seriously burned when a
| gasoline can exploded in the home of
ROsendo Romero in Cleveland, Mora
| county, N. NJ. The dead are Mrs
Manuelita Valdez, 60 years old, and
the infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs