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Gun ExplodedBy AccidentHankins SaysAlleged Slayer Claims He And Victim Discussing Gun When Shot Is Fired Accidentally; Does Not Remember Next Few Minutes.VI don't know what happened—if I killed anyone intentionally it sure wouldn’t be my wife/*Malcolm J. Miko’’ Hankins said yesterday in Sulltvaf Circuit Court that those were the words he spoke in finsweij to a question by a sister following the fatal shooting of his wife. Ruby, here on Christinas Eve. ,£9| \Called to the stand for the first time since the trial be-gan Wednesday, Hankins denied knowing exactly how the shot was fired but said it was accidental. He said he and his wife were sitting on the bed, handling the gun and talking about what a weapon it was, when it accidentally went off, the bullet striking Ruby.Fur lhe next few minute#, Hankins said; he was not sure just what happened. He said he' put on his clothes, walked out of * the house, down to the highway? and caught a ride to Merom. On reaching Merom he went to the-telephone office and called «• cab for the return trip to Sullivan. When he came back to | Sullivan. Hankins said he in—J stnicted the cab driver to take | him to the Davis Hotel where registered under the alias *'M Jenkins. A few minutes la1 'about 10 or 15 minutes pol arrived and arrested him.“I knew it was the law and was tickled to death, Hankins said. He said when State Policed man Nash asked him why he did it that he answered that it was accidental.The gun was purchased abort two weeks prior to the shooting Hankins testified. He claimed ■ bought i* because it is life ha’ been threatened by relatives. Hi
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Sullivan Daily Times
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 31, 1947
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