to another woman.  This incident seemed to have furnished the basis of a quarrel between the deceased and defendant after their return home.  They continued to argue and quarrel after they had gone to bed, although at that time they were occupying separate rooms.  Shortly after retiring, the defendant got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get a drink.  In doing so, it was necessary for him to pass through the room of the deceased.  The quarrel between himself and the deceased was still in progress, and when the defendant, on his way back from the kitchen, reached the bed in which the deceased was lying, he picked up a hammer, which was lying near her bed, and hit the deceased over the head two or three times.  The defendant then attempted to talk with the deceased, but she made no reply. The defendant was of the opinion that she was dead.  He covered her with the bedclothes and then went to bed.  He slept until about 8 or 9 o'clock the next morning.  He got up about 10:00 o'clock, cooked breakfast for himself, and, after eating breakfast, went out into the yard, worked around the yard and watered the flowers.  This was on Monday morning,  October 9th.  On Wednesday or Thursday, he attempted to dig a grave under one of the houses owned by Mrs. Straw, in which to bury the body.  He left off digging the grave when he struck hardpan, as he feared the burial of the body in such a shallow grave would lead to its early discovery.  After abandoning the plan to bury the body the defendant decided to throw it into the bay.  Accordingly, so his statement relates, he dismembered the body sometime on Saturday, October 14th. . . . He then wrapped the dismembered portions of the body in two packages . . . Each package was wrapped in a heavy sack, around which was wrapped oil cloth.  Defendant then borrowed an automobile and transported these two packages down to one of the piers on the waterfront and threw them into the bay.  He returned the automobile to the owner, and the next morning went down to the bay and saw the body, as wrapped in those two packages, floating upon the water.  While there he saw some "Navy boys" picking up the "sacks."  He went uptown and later attended a show, and as he was coming out of the show at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon he bought a daily paper containing an account of the finding of the body of Mrs. Straw and stating that he was wanted for her murder.  He immediately hired a taxicab and was driven to Los Angeles.  Before this, however, he abstracted from Mrs. Straw's purse $250, which he took with him to Los Angeles, together with $60 of his own money.

He was arrested in Los Angeles some seven months thereafter, to be more exact, about the 27th of May, 1934.  At the time of his arrest, he was sitting in the plaza, when an officer noticed a billy or blackjack in his possession.  He was taken in charge by the officer by reason of having such an article in his possession, and thereafter by some means not clearly shown in the record, his connection with the murder of Mrs. Straw was ascertained, with the result that his prosecution for that crime followed.