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BELIEVES THAT.e a lild-nn-W III nn.e ph 'UM-CONSORTE ISMURDER VICTIMcenlinghis |iiign 'Lie Detector Indicates Mrs. Voyce Tells The Truth, Husband Questionedloott ho the I hr fOIOltHC imif lt;t elt;t h#IMAwntandA ft or spending hours in invest!-I KnlinR possible angles in the mvs-^ teiioiis dentil of James lt;». Con* •Mtrte. II at a Chippewa I#nke cot-taiie early Saturday morning. Sheriff Chmles Williams said VVednes-da\ night that he was three-quarters convinced that Consorte was murdered.Williams had |ust returned from Cleveland, where Mrs. Wanda Voyce had been given lie detector te*t- at Central police station. Results showed that she had been ased j felling the truth.101,1 I Consorte. a Cleveland bar tender, was found d* ad in a ml!ago oc-rupied b\ himself, Mrs. Voyce and 1 J wmi -old daughter. Joan, with l,l,,rja .32-cn liber bullet wound In his left groin. Air autops performed ! Sunilav disclosed that the bullet travelled up through the body. P ? let ring the intestines. liver andV heart.J Lying Down When ShotDavid I, Cowles, Cleveland Po-| lice ballistic expert, said NVednes-| da\ that the bullet removed from™ Consorte's body was more thanlikely from the lone discharged shell found in the automatic .32-caliber pistol which was four feet from the body. The path taken by the bullet indicates that Con-soito was lying down when he was shot, Williams said.One theorv is advanced that Consorte was accidentally shot when, holding the pistol at his leftide t « free the jammed pistol, the gun went off. The pistol is said not to have been given good care land in that ease its owner might uhhs p.IV(. tnid difficulty with its m°lt; h-incedMirmirysvs-theiiiild-111 III*'in aslulltheC|- n!leter,lave;rKar-•onneUhhs.Hnr-Maryfjlen-Wii-II l ley, I une;andav.isni.1 the j Suicide DiscreditedIt »s not believed that (’onsorte imnr.tied suicide as he was said to have been of a jovial disposition. That lie was enjoying his stay at the resort is btnught out when on Saturday, the day before he was to give up the cottage, he asked that he be allowed to keep the cottage another day.Sheriff Williams said that Mrs. Voyce and daughter and Consorte retired to their separate bedrooms at about 1 a. m. Saturday. The daughter heard a pistol shot at 1:20 a. in. and went into the living room and found Consorte lying Mnrv | ,m tne floor dead. She railed her .enth * '.other, who denied hearing the• pal. oistol shot. About ten minutesprevious the daughter said she Kdith heard Consorte talking to some-ward n° at the back door of the cot-Ie j tage and Consorte said, “A little to i Kh-|the left.*'ames j Smelled No Smoke. I , A peculiar angle to the shoot-•wsT.i, ; i,,g is that neither Sheriff Will-Mnr-jinms nor his deputy, Otis Carlton, nnell. ! detected any gunshot odor when Phil-1 railed to the scene at about 2:30 tildes. ] a. m.. which might mean that Consorte was shot from his bedroom window hv an unknown assailant ichool | as he was in bed. This would ac-norn count for the upward path taken* kin- by the bullet.start Sheriff Williams was to go to vxeep- Cleveland, Thursday, to question asses. Mrs. Voyce*s husband, .Too. WiH-\sday. inms said that Joe and his wifey ses- had h« en s« parated, hut recentlyay so had reconciled.start Williams’ first contact withlay. Voyce was Saturday night when *s I the latter called him from Clove-t the land asking where his wife was. e di- Williams said he understood she i noon was returning home that day, but: chil- the husband said he had not seenige of her.ill be Mrs. Vovco is a part-tim° wait-. 1 46.i ress nl the bar where ConsorteSarten worked as a bar tender, re fivr I Stranger At Door1 and In Cleveland, Wednesday, Mrs.n thejvoyee gay* Sheriff Williams additional information of happenings Friday night. She said that Con-orto and her duaghter early in • ho evening wont to the roller skat-1 nr rink and that she had just ro-Mirning from swimming and was sitting in the living room of the cottage with only her bathing suit on when a stranger appeared atthe door.Vhe man whom she later described as having “funny” eyesing ofh was house s pre-is “fa ropos oduca schoo
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 07, 1945
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