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.
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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
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Mexico City IflJPE Form
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William O'Dwyer plans to
film Charles Dickens, "Oliver
Twist" in Hollywood with
English-speaking" Mexican ac
tors, the newspaper La Afici-
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to undertake additional pro
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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
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a depression in the side of
the road. I put the body in
that and ' I covered her up
with about four feet of sand."
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.
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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
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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.
Loss to that establishment
was about $40,000 and the
balance to the ' warehouse.
Damage was only partly cov
ered by insurance.
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Umatilla (DPD New
tolls for use of the Columbia
river bridge here were. an
nounced Tuesday by the Uma
tilla county court which said
that present tolls were inad
equate to pay off the bond ob
ligations incurred for con
struction of the span.
The ' new rate would be
.$1.25 for roundtrips for cars
and pickups, for an actual sav
ing of 35 cents over the old
fee which was 80 cents each
way. One way tolls would be
raised to $1 for cars and pick
ups as of Sept. 1.
The court said tolls could
probably be reduced when the
bridge becomes part of the in
terstate highway system and
traffic is increased.
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