Spade Cooley murder case Спейд Кули - музыкант, тв-звезда и автор музыки к различным вестернам, чей пик карьеры пришелся на 40е и 50е года. В 1945 году женился на вокалистке из собственной группы Элл

SpadeCooley
Jailed In
Slayi
ite Slaying
BAKERSFIELD, Kern
estranged wife of
я former western bandleader
Spade Cooley, 50, was found
dead of blows last night and,
her daughter told officers to-!
day she saw him administer
4 the beating,
Melody Cooley, 14, said she
became frightened the
А sight and fled the scene, the
home a big ranch’
in the California desert south-
east of here.
Blood Spattered Clothes
Deputy Sheriff John How-
‘ard, who disclosed Melody's
story, said Cooley's
8 \daughter in law told officers,
jshe
itered clothing last night at
Booked For Murder [at door of
alatial desert home.
Spade Cooley was booked for murder at the sheriff's Dorothy Lee Cooley, wife
office at Mojave, Kern County, for the death of his ‘of John Cooley, 28, Spade’s
estranged wife Ella Mae with whom he is pictured in a previous
1954 photo. She was found beaten to death at the Mustefan Held Wit
couple's luxurious ranch home. Wirephoto usician