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16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, August 20, 1958 San Francisco Man Leads Authorities To Body of Wife Eureka, Nev. (UPI A meek looking brewery engineer ."who confessed he strangled this wife two weeks ago in -San Francisco promised to-day to show where he buried jher body on the Nevada des sert if he can find the "exact rplace." ; Albert H. Lewis, 48, con fessed in San Francisco Tues day the "terrible secret I have been carrying for two weeks." ; The secret was that he Ikilled his wife, Dolly, 36, on :Aug. 5, put her body in the trunk of his car four days later, drove to Nevada and buried her in a sandy grave near a pioneer town. Lewis said he decided to confess after seeing a movie in Sacramento last Thursday called "Unchanged." It was about life in Chino State prison. He said the film touched his conscience. Early Tuesday, he called Ingleside station in San Fran cisco and told of killing his wife and burying her body in the Nevada desert. DRY Direct from mill to you BIG DOUBLE LOADS or SINGLE SUMMER PRICES MEDFORD FUEL CO. SP 2-2111 Court arid McAndrews I used my hands, but I don't know why or how I did it," he said in" a hoarse voice. Taken to Nevada Homicide Lt. Al Nelder, In spector Joseph Curtin and As sistant District Attorney Wal ter Giubbini brought Lewis to Nevada late Tuesday so he could show them the spot on Highway 50 near Eureka where he buried her. Eureka is about 255 miles east of Car son City. Lewis said he and his wife Former Mayor to Make Picture of Story Mexico City IflJPE Form er New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer plans to film Charles Dickens, "Oliver Twist" in Hollywood with English-speaking" Mexican ac tors, the newspaper La Afici- on said Tuesday. It said O'Dwyer also hoped to undertake additional pro ductions in a joint venture with Mexican producers. began drinking Aug. 5. "I think we had an argu ment," he said. "That's all I can remember." . Four days later, he recalled carrying his wife's body down the back stairs of their home and curling it up in the trunk of his auto. He drove through Oakland and out Highway 50. "I didn't know what to do," he said. "I passed a river (the American river in the Sierra Nevada) but I didn't think that was the place to leave her. He kept on driving, stop ping for drinks on the way, until he came to Eureka. He parked the car at the curb of a street in Eureka and slept. Covered With Sand "I woke up about 6 o'clock in the morning," he said. "I drove eastward on Highway 50. Then I drove off the main highway about a quarter of a mile. "I had a shovel in the back of my car. I didn't need to dig a hole because there was MOORE'S 11 BIG DAYS August 21-30 Hours: 10 A.M. 7 P.M. During Sale BIG Savings on a Wide Selection of TOYS and OUTDOOR FURNITURE DON'T MISS IT! Children: Register for Door Prizes! FREE-53L000 in Toy. 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Lewis said his wife was a sister of Lewis Henson, hus band of Harriet Henson, a key figure in the infamous Santo gang murder case in Chester, Calif., in 1953. Four-Year-Old Fights Off 1,200-Pound Bull Slyfield Green, England (DPD Four-year-old David Butter weights only 43 pounds but he bested a 1,-200-pound Goliath who in vaded his playground in this Surrey village. David is blond and stocky for his age, the ack nowledged leader of his "gang" of 16 youngsters. Goliath is a bull, due any day now for a date in a slaughterhouse. Here's David's story of what happened: "We were on the swings next to my house, me and my pals. Then a big black bull came through the hedge and started running around. "He was making a funny grunting noise. There was a stick on the ground and I grabbed it and hit him. The other kids ran away. "The bull just stood still when I hit him. So I hit him again. He stamped his feet. So I hit him again. "Then he ran back into the field and I went home and told Mum it was all right for the kids to play in the field again." David's mother, Mrs. Jan ette Buttler, 24, backed up his story and looked proud ly at the knobby, . three foot stick David chose as a weapon ""because I couldn't find a bigger one." "It's terrifying to think of bullocks careening around in a playground," Mrs. Butter said. "But it's just like my boy. He doesn't seem scared of anything." David, who was reward ed with an extra portion of ice cream, grinned and said "Aw, I wasn't frightened. I like cows." BIRDCAGE The girl with the busiest phone in Indian apolis is 17-year-old Mauri Rose Kiry, who is attempting to break the world's record of 169 days atop a pole. She hopes to stay on her 71-foot perch for six months. By the time winter sets in, she hopes to have heat in her "home." Opposition Noted For Regulating River Reservoirs San Francisco (DPD An engineer for the U. S. Bureau of. Reclamation has expressed strong opposition to a proposal by Arizona for regulating Col orado river reservoirs. The engineer, John R. Riter of Denver, appeared as a Cal ifornia rebuttal witness Tues day in the Colorado river wa ter suit. The case is being heard by Special Master Si mon H. Rif kind for the U. S. Supreme Court. Riter said he took "violent exception" to the hypothetical plan introduced in the case by Arizona to regulate reservoirs on the river. Arizona contemplates an ef fective storage in the reser voirs of 35 million acre feet a year, while California calls for 31 million acre feet. An 'Erratic Release' , Riter said that Arizona's scheme would require erratic release. He said this would make it difficult to maintain a constant production of elec tric power. Moreover, he said the plan would "put the reservoir op erator in the hole" because he might find himself with an empty reservoir at a time when he is legally required to make a high release. Earlier, California and Ari zona clash'l over how much water war -:ould be saved in the river ;etween Hoover Dam and th Mexican border. It has been estimated that about one million annual acre feet disappears in this stretch of the river. Disagree On Amount v Arizona has asserted that the waste could be reduced to 300,000 annual acre feet, but California insists it could be cut in the future to only 600, 000 acre feet. Arthur L. Mitchell, the U. S. engineer who controls releases at Hoover Dam, testified that vegetation which drinks fiver water causes much of the waste. He said the vegetation grows faster than it can be gotten rid of. Mitchell, also a California rebuttal witness, contradicted testimony of an Arizona wit ness that much water would be saved if irrigators were obliged to take the full amount of their water orders. They do not always do so at present. Mitchell said that when temperatures drop, the farm ers do not always need the water they have ordered. Even if they accepted it, it would not do then any good, he said. Two Burned When Light Bulb Explodes More than 8,000 American Indians saw service in World War I. Blaze Consumes Grain Elevators Jefferson, Ore. (UPD An early-morning fire today con sumed the Marion-Linn grain warehouse and elevators and the Dimick Manufacturing company here with a total loss estimated at $240,000, in cluding tons of stored grain. The flames were discov ered about 5 a.m., 30 minutes after a night shift of workers had left the warehouse. Cause was not known. The grain warehouse, owned by Philip Gilmore of Jefferson, was filled with wheat and one of the two ele vators destroyed by the fire was built only three weeks ago. Grain stored out of doors on the ground also was burned by the blaze which was fought by firemen from both Albany and Jefferson. The nearby manufacturing plant owned by Philip Dim ick housed equipment for the manufacture of television an tennae and plastic products. 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