Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

BEAUTIFUL June Dibble, daughter Of
- a British general and former Patou
- model has the strangest luck IN
husbands
Her first, synthetic cowboy named
Frederick Almy, Jr., amazed and mys-
titled her their friends and probably
himself by running through an inheri-
lance of $50 900 900 in 10 years.
: The 1929 stock market crash helped
Ma lot, but still it was notable feat
Afterwards, instead Of being content
10 rest on his latlrels, he turned around
and performed another feat, this one as
unique in the annals of divorce as the
other had been in the annals OF finance.
The second coup consisted OF person
ally staging. and inviting the audience
To, an extravaganza Of marital infidelity
i'm which the actors were himself and
the usual Observation-Disclosures.
Thus. ne spared his wife any trouble
Of supplying her own witnesses and of
shopping around after him.
June emerged from these experiences
with "A divorce and a profound distaste
for notoriety. OF which she had had al
most nothing else but since the day of
her marriage To the millionaire cow
boy"
but that her next husband. if there were
TO be "A next must be a man to whom
wildly improbable things just didn't hap
pen, a retiring man. with money in the
bank and his feet the ground
These ideal qualities she found per-
sonified in Mr.. A. Stanwood Murphy. Pa
cific Coast lumber baron. who has made
a sideline career OF avoiding the lime
light.
Last New Years Day, June married
Mr. Murphy in Baltimore so quietly pins
were heard dropping, and together the
two stole back to San Francisco for a
hush-hush honeymoon
There, no sooner we're they settled into
decorous love-nest, with lilies at the window
than all H broke loose. Reporters storme
the door crowds gathered whenever they wen
out for walk. flashlight bulbs flared.
For something had befallen Mr.. Murphy
I. the solid lumberman, as improbable as any
hing Mr. Almy can boast Of
He had been shot at. or around thre
times as he was coming out of his club on Sa
Francisco's socially sacrosanct Mob Hill
The lady who sought to bring the atmos
phere OF the oId-tme Barbary Coast to No
Hill is Madge Belamy, tear-jerkng star G
silent film days. She il no stranger to melo
drama, but. until the shots were heard, mos
of it had been confined to celluloid.
However in her veins is the blood Of
rootin', tootin' Texas clan named Philpott (sh
was christened Margaret Philpott and 1t wa
no doubt this blood, brought TO a boil by VIVA
she considers Mr.. Murphy's sighting treat
meant, that agitated her trigger finger.
She had been futlely tracking her man 10
six months when, late one January afternoo
a few weeks ago, pure bunch prompted ne
l. 30 flo ff1tn
Immediately she knew she had reached tn
end Of the trail, for there, in the clubs pari
ing lot. was Mr.. Murphy's car.
Taking UP a strategic position beside IN
stone wall which surrounds the grounds Mis-
Bellamy waited composing her mind NEAR
while by leafing through a copy of Harper
Bazaar She was picking out line OF Sprin
hats when her quarry rather characteristics
ly. came out of the clubs back door.
AS he made for his car without noticin
her. she laid the magazine aside, extracted
80 caliber revolver from her handbag an
fired three times.
The first shot tipped into the car door ju!
as Mr. Murphy was about to unlock IT.
For a moment the keys in his hand playc
Jingle. .Jangle, jingle" then he threw h
arms up and. TO quote Miss Bellamy ''hollered
The second shot winged the gasoline tam
a good distance from Mr.. Murphy, who
that time was doing what police later d
= .scribed as "a commando crawl back towal
he shelter OF the club"
The third and last shot disappeared in
thin air, and so did Mr. Murphy.
couple of pedestrians momentarily par
lyzed by the fascination of this spectacl
came TO life again and overpowered the pric
of the Philpotts. The latter has describe
her feeling of the moment as one of treme
dous relief, despite the indignity of beir
captured and dsarmed.
Il was like kid she said, who h'
thrown rock and gotten it out of h
system"
Inside the club, voice charged with a