The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19

and were 10 examine it this after noon to see if it had been fired.
 The dresser in which the gun wa found rested but a few feet from blood-stained chair beside pill cf Holm's clothing and his disjoint ed knee-length hollow leg.
 Blcod smears were on a knob o the dresser drawer, but there wer' no blood stains apparent on tn gun The safety catch of the auto matic was Cn.
 Theory
 Only theory arrived at unti searching the apartment more fully was that Holm. who was in i'll health had shot himself three times while sitting in the chair in the kitchen had placed the gun in the dresser drawer, closed the drawer taken his I"hcbbling leg a crude wooden peg leg crutcb, and had walkedfthroug,I the living room, another bedroom and into his cwil to die
 However, no elected shells which would have been thrown automau- eally from. the automatic pistol have been found @Asrea4 alt se,Dr. w. M. Whitehead. called on Iti,e case. declared it remarkable that Fany man, let alone a one-leggeo man, shot three times in the vicin- | lity of the heart, one shot very pos l:siblycin the heart itself, could walk ] iItthei some 20 or 30 steps to his bed to diellvOc W4S tajss1 sSk@eef k No bloodi was found between the kitchen and the bedroom and no mote, such as one would expect from a suicide, has as yet7been located. saoar Splotch of Rcd .l Another .splotch of red in the sink, som. eight crrtcn feet in the opposite direction from the blood stained ellaip andathe bedroom, add edeto thciconfusion Of tho case, but whether or net it was blood spot had not yet been determined
 John Satire Sr., who lives in the apartment above Holm, called Chief of Police Dan Ralston this morn ing after he had looked through Helms bedroom window and had Seene him lying there on a blood stained pillow.
 Ralston forced an entry into the apartment and found all doors and windows, locked A small sack of nuggets was on the dresser near the body and there was over $50 in i Helms pockets.
 4 3,i Nc Shots Heard
 Neighbors heard no shots defin- 'tely, but Mrs. John Satire said that early this morning she heard scmc- thing that sounded like a blast.
 Mcnda5, Holm went to the hes oital,- feeling ill, and paid lis room ~ent a week in advance. Yesterday he packed his bag and left the hes pital and apparently went home. Hc was seen by several people ein jolly spirits
 The Satres, worried as to his leav- ng the hospital yesterday when he had announced his intentions tc stay a week, had their fears relieved llortly after. midnight when Satire saw him in his bedroom.
 Ut was about quarter aftei welve," Satire said. T locked in his bedroom window and asked him il le was all right. He said Sure, Tn all right"
 I In Good Spirits
 Although MT. and Mrs Satire saic Holm acted queerly yesterday, they declared he was apparently in gocc spirits, and he had recently talked of taking a trip Outside.
 Holm had no financial worries friends said, and doctors said noth- ing seriously wrong with his healtl had been discovered. He had nc 1nown. relatives and few clost friends. Ra
 When Mrs. Perelle died Holm in leritcd half her estate, the othel half going to her sister. Total value .5fs the estate according to U. s Commissioner Felix Gray was abou s6O 900.
 Two FBI agents, Deputy Marsha q Walter Hellan,' and Chief of Police Dan Ralston are cooperating in th' investigation of the strange case.
 If the death weapon is located to lay, an inquest will likely be helt cmorrcw morning.
 z Holm came to Gastineau Channe about 1902 and worked in the mine mtil about ten years ago or nor when he lost a leg below the kne n aimine accident. He was born il Finland
 Holm made out will Saturday it is revealed, and was said to b desiring to "straighten everythin ip" ff,s
 Holm yesterday bought cartridge for the .32 automatic which wa , found in the dresser drawer. bu l tiate this afternoon the fired cart ridges had not yet been found. l f0IIDIE MAppIFD