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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1929lu t nPivot cf Malone Slaying Case Tried ‘To Prove Innocence’OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 7—UP)— Recovering from a self administered poison, Mrs. Mabel DePron, 26, central figure in any investigation of the fatal shooting of I.ymien Malone, lo, a week agotoday, declared this afternoon that she took the poison *’tv juC'e my innocence.” , ;yth‘I have told my story of the shooting of that boy and I am going to stick to it/’ Mrs. DePronsaid. “But they don't seem to want to believe. They had me up until after 3 o’clock this morning.”County authorities, questionedMrs. DePron and her husbands, Hoy DePron, Mr. and Mrs. John McNeill and Charles Reese until long after midnight.Mrs- McNeill, who laved with Mrs. DePron and her husband, lone, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Malone, was shot in Mrs. DePron’s back yard, told the oficers a story which resulted in a continued investigation. According to Mrs. McNeill she and Mrs. DePron occupied separate bedrooms in the DePron home and she heard a noisein Mrs. DePron’s bedroom in the rear of the house before the shooting-Mrs. McNeill, who stayed withMrs. DePron said, as she talked with newspaper men in ho* hospital room. **Nhe told a lie the first time anti got us into this trouble, just to save her own hide.“She didn’t want her husband toknow that we had been to a dance that night. I swear to (Jod I’ve told the truth when I say that 1 did not know who was out there in my back yard before the shot was fired. Mrs. McNeill talked to the officers who came out to investigate that morning and she toldthem that we came in about 10 o’clock, just to save herself. WStory Changed $; v’’Then she changed her story and said 1 slept in the back bedroA, That’s all wrong. 1 became ill d®*ing the night and got up to tag*some medicine, but I did not m to bed back there- After going to the bathroom I went hack arijl went to bed with Mrs. McNeill and slept there until we heard thSshot*9’ ; 1Mrs. DePron re-iterated her statement to officers that she had seen and heard a man running around the driveway of her home following the shooting. She said he got into a small coupe, parked in the street in front of her home and drove c*st.||PM||p f-i4I don’t know whether he shot Lyndon or not, but if I did know anything that would help to clear this ease up 1 would only be too glad to tell it,” Mrs. DePron add-ed.It was due to the efforts of Mrs.DePron’s mother, Mrs. Lillie Spi-nu e, that Mrs. DeFror. s life was saved or the effects of the poison were at least allayed, hospital attendants said. Having gone to a neighbor’s house on an errand for her daughter, Mrs. Spinuke returned to discover the poison dripping from Mrs. DePron’s mouth. She quickly administered an olive oil compound and then gave • er daughter a mixture of egg whit* and milk. Mrs. DePron’s mouth was severely burned. Her con-*-dition is not critical, hospital attendants said. i L* IMOONSHINE FOR BABY | LA SALLE, 111., Sept. 7—Thadoctor prescribed alcohol rubs fof his baby, so Thomas Toniminilio went out and got Svme moonshine. Ho was arrested with a quart. But the doctor intervened, *aymg thrt the child suffered pneumonia after an attack of measles*. Thfc moonshine was applied and th* child lived. I“Nixie ’ is the name given j the Post Office Department to j pieces of mail which cannotI delivered because the addressdefective.bwalLr*[\
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Miami News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Sep 08, 1929
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