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r'arLerviUB. mr.i, »vnum waa miijiii.....daughter of F. M. Knight ofRlponJzone and Austria.Police Kill Slayer Of Wife In Gun Battle In BeniciaBENICIA, Feb. 11.—lt;LPI—A former 'Texas cowhand sought for the allying of Ilia wife was killed by an explosive shell yealenlay when po-lice stormed 'a rooming house Jn which he* had barricaded himself.The dead man was Harold Jewell, 41, n Henlcia arsenal laborer. He was found sprawled across a bed, his hand clutching a- rifle with which police said he had shot his wife to death the night before.Jewell had been hit on the head a shell wuleh the police saidenTrillwiClAlltolcuthLaiGbywas fired unintentionally after the fugitive had ignored repeated cells to eomc out and save yourself.” Police identified Jewell as the man dressed In a 10 gallon hat and cowboy boots, who had shot hla wife, Sophia, 38, In a cafe at Vallejo SaLurday night. Mrs; Jewell had filed auit for divorce two weeks before.Payh Three VJmLIh Witnesses reported Jewell visited the cafe three times in the evening to induce his wife to come home with him. After being repulsed twice, ho returned in a taxi and again entered the cafe.They said he killed his wife in the kitchen at the rear of the cafe, then backed out, warning the customers, Don't como after me.Taxi driver Mark Mitchell, 29, told poltee Jawcll hnd ordered him to drive to hla home fjI Benicia,IJitcmriBfive miles away, under a threat of death. Ho snid Jewell hUH was carrying a rifle.Mitchell notified police, and more than 30 Vallejo, Benicia, state and county officers surrounded the two story darkened house.When they received no answer to demands to surrender, police began firing tear gas shells Into the house. One of the exploding shells set the house afire and firemen who broke Into the building found Jewell gone. He apparently had escaped through an adjacent apartment window.Warned Acquaintance %Early Sunday morning, C. W. Dexter, an acquaintance, told police Jo well hnd spent the night with him. Dextor said Jewell warned him not to tip off the cops.A posse converged upon the rooming house and after evacuating the other tenants called on Jewell to surrender.The fugitive greeted the demand ai with n volley from his rifle. Ho tired approximately 20 times at the officers who took up vantage points In buddings across the street,The officers hegnn firing tear gna shells Inlo the barricaded room. After a half hour, Jewell’s rifle fire suddenly ceased. On investigating, police found Jewell dead, his skull crushed by the shell*alleTclb'CHo?Y\a|c*is
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Modesto Bee and News Herald
Modesto, California, US
Mon, Feb 11, 1946
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