Evening star., 1935-11-24
Mrs. Lillian Maddox Admits
Staying D. c. Underworld
King and Tells Police How
He Beat Her.
PLANNED TO QUIT HER,
CONFESSION DECLARES
Murder Revives Rumors Linking
"Big Eddie" to Wilson Death.
Police Confscate Guns, Letters
Il and Gaming Equipment in
~ Hunt for Clues to Mystery.

A blazing gun in the hands Of an
infuriated woman yesterday snuffed
out the life Of big Eddie Killeen, who
won his crown as king of Washing
tons underworld by ruthlessly crush
ing his rivals and ignoring the law.
Five hours after she had pumped
two bullets into Killeen's body from
a snub-nosed revolver, Mrs. Lillian
Maddox, the gamblers mistress, had
been formally charged with the mur-
der at Rockville, Md.
Police said the 35-year-old blond
talked with them willingly and readily
admitted the shooting.
He said he was going to beat hell
out of me-" they quoted her as saying.
1T was his life or mine. He began
beating me and he wouldn't stop. Dur
ing the scuff1e the gun, which had
been lying on table. was knocked
to the floor. I snatched it up and
began flring-I don't know how many
times.
81 Would Do it Again"
I'm glad I killed him, and I would
do it again."
Mrs. Maddox, who has long police
record and once served prison term
on narcotics charges, said Killeen
fired at her left leg Friday night. say
ing he was going to cripple both of
them" The woman'S right leg has
been crippled for years.
Killeen, grown wealthy from his
numbers and bookmaking enterprises,
met his death in the meagerly fur
nished bed room of one of his aban-
doned gambling houses near Brook
mont, Md, just across the District line
on Conduit road.
He had been there since early Fri
day night with the Maddox woman,
drinking and quarreling intermit-
tently.
There were two versions of the
cause of the fight Immediately preced-
ing the shooting-one that he had
threatened to leave her and go to
Miami, and the other that reference
to his estranged wife, Florence,
aroused the ire of the 50-year old
gambler.
tOHlcSSlOH SiSHeu.
Montgomery County Policeman
James S. McAuliffe said Mrs. Maddox
had signed written confession.
In this statement, according to the
policeman. Mrs. Maddox said Killeen
called an unidentified man yesterday
afternoon and told him to put a
stove in the boat" because he was
going to Miami. She added, it was
said, that he called another woman
and said he was going to leave her
(Mrs. Maddox behind.
McAuliffe and two other policemen
went back to the house last night and
in a basement room found new
gambling equipment, valued at $4,000,
which was confiscated. A dice table
and a roulette wheel were included.
House Watched for Weeks.
Police, it was learned, have been
watching the place for several weeks
on tip Killeen was going to open
new gambling house in the county.
Persistent reports that Killeen was
suspected Of knowledge in the mis-
taken identity Staying of Allen B.
Wilson were revived by a statement
from Montgomery County States At
torney James H. Pugh that he had de-
layed his presentation of the Wilson
case to the grand jury to give Wash
ington police opportunity to investi-
gate Killeen's possible connection with
the crime.
Wilson. newspaper route agent,
was killed more than year ago when
gunmen hired to kill Edward Mickey"
(see KILLEEN, Page S.