Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Confession Of Sailor
In Norfolk Sayings
Claimed by Police
BY the Associated Press.

NlUllIVU W VIM
BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, July 14.-Paul N
Deadwiley, 10, radion1an second class
u. S. N, of Duncan, Okla, confessed
today, Detective Leon Nowitzky said
that he fired the shots that killed
Patrolmen Frank A. Davis and
Robert F. Dunn when the officers
found him in the act Of robbing a
pharmacy at 7501 CRANKY street
early yesterday.
II was hungry and broke and
needed some money" Detective
Nowitzky and Detective w. T. Wal
ker quoted Deadwiley as saying. He
said he had been absent without
leave from his post at the Norfolk
Naval Air Station since June II.
Under questioning by detectives
Deadwiley said he was unaccom.
panied when he entered the drug
store. He denied breaking into an.
other drug store agross the street.
Claimed He Bought Gun.
Asked about the revolver found al
the scene of the shooting, Deadwiley
said he bought the gun from q
sailor at Ocean View a few days
ago" He added that he paid 50 fol
the weapon, and described the man
who sold it to him.
Judge r. B. S. Spindle. jr., Cor
poration Court No. /, today took
under ADJUSTMENT a request by j
Hume Taylor. Commemorative at
torney, that special grand jury be
called at once to consider indicting
Deadwiley.
Mr.. Taylor went to Judge Spindle's
Office shortly before 10 am. today
and discussed the matter. Judge
Spindle told the Commonwealth s
attorney he would not call special
grand jury today, since Deadwiley
lis not in the custody of the Norfolk
police at this time" He did not say
that he would not call a grand jury
later, next week. for instance, but he
made it clear that he did not feel
1t was necessary to summon a grand
jury today.
Sailor Was Wounded.
Deadwiley was arrested late yes
terday in a downtown drugstore and
charged with the fatal shooting on
warrants sworn out by Detective
Nowitzky.
Deadwiley was taken to the Naval
Operating Base Hospital, where a
bullet was removed from his arm
after the arrest was made by Patrol
man Henry M. Scheepers and two
members of the Navy Shore Patrol
The search for Deadwiley, a vet
eran Of several Pacific campaigns
started when Norfolk police and
naval authorities came to the con-
clusion that the revolver which
killed the patrolman had been issued
to Deadwiley on July 8. The weapon
was found at the scene of the shoot
ing.
When no report was received from
the two officers some 80 minutes
after they were sent to the store
additional police cars were rushed
to the scene. There they found
Policeman Davis dead with bullet
wound in the temple. Officer Dunn,
shot through the mouth, died in a
local hospital three hours later and
was never able to give an account
Of what had happened, police said.
Following the finding Of the Of
ficers and of the gun, which was
about 10 feet from the broken win
dow through which police said the
store had been entered and SITS
stolen, Detective Nowitzky said Of
ficers went to Deadwiley's Ocean
View home but failed to find him
there. Bloodstains were discovered
in the house, the detective added.
Detective 1t. H. L. Dickens said
Deadwiley was arrested at 4:2C
pm. when he entered a downtown
drug store with q woman, whom
police identified as Mrs. Deadwiley
his l6-year-old bride of four months
and an expectant mother.
Wounded in Arm.
Patrolman Scheepers said he al
ready was in the pharmacy when
the couple entered. The patrol
man. who works as a photographer
in the Police Department Identia-
cation Bureau, said he had just
completed making photographs of
the sailor and his wife and was
looking at the prints when they en-
tered the store.
1t. Dickens said Mrs. Deadwiley
had been detained for questioning
He said no charges had been placed
against her.
At the naval operating base an ord
nance officer said the gun had been
obtained through ruse by an uni
Identified man who claimed that his
commanding officer had sent him
to get revolver to be used on
a confidential detail that night
Gully 81.
He said the gun was supposed to
have been returned on July 8, but
the man who issued it was off duty
then. A search had been conducted
since then for the man who obtained
the gun, he said.
Officers said the policemen's re-
volvers were found on the pavement
near the drugstore. All the car.
tridges in both weapons had beer
fired. One resident of the neigh
borhood was quoted as saying that
he heard at least Is shots fired.