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Peggy Nash, 30-year-old wife of William Howard Nash, part owner of the Fuller Taxicab Company in East St. Louis,

told a reporter today that she killed her husband last night in a quarrel because of his extravagance

and his demand after a day of drinking that she turned over to him a box of money they kept at their home.

She denied a statement previously attributed to

her by police that Nash had said he intended to leave her for another woman. Tearfully, she told how

she had shot him with a small caliber automatic pistol taken from him after he had fired a shot at her.

Nash died at 11 o'clock last night at Christian Welfare Hospital two hours after the shooting at their home at 1230 Illinois Avenue.

His only statement was that he had been shot by, quote, a man, unquote.

Mrs. Nash, arrested at the hospital, first told police that she had been called by telephone

to come to the office of the taxi cab company, 747 Collinsville Avenue, where she worked

shortly before the time of the shooting.

She returned home, she said, and found her husband had been shocked. However, after being confronted

with the statements of other persons questioned by police in tracing Nash's movements yesterday,

Mrs. Nash signed a confession. Among those questioned by police was Mrs. Opel Brandt, 18 years old,

who will be placed under Bond as a witness.

She signed a statement in which she said she had been with Nash yesterday, first drinking in a tavern

in Belleville, and then returning to the East St. Louis Tavern from which Mrs. Nash took her

husband home. She said Nash was drunk, and that Mrs. Nash, after remonstrating with him, left the tavern with him between 8 and 8.30 p.m.

Mrs. Nash said Mrs. Brant, a divorcee, had been employed as a waitress at an East St. Louis Tavern which her husband operated before coming interested in the

10-cent taxi cab line four months ago. She added, quote, I'd trust her with my husband anywhere,

unquote.

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