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torneys—saying they came into possession of the ed a continuance, Criminal Court Judge Harold G. Ward gave Heirens until Aug. 14, when he will hear motions which
Heirens' attorneys may file, or on a
plea. He seemed to enjoy being the center of attraction in the crowded courtroom, although observers said his smile at times seemed forced,
apartment were in the crowd, studying him closely. Later they came to sistant |
State's Attorney Crowley and said that they had seen the youth before. Seen Around Building One, Frank Van Aelst, said he, ‘had seen Heirens in-and-around the, building where he works at 5959 Kenmore, just north of the Degnan home. Ben Peterson, janitor of the) Shoreland apartments at 1052 Sheridan rd, sald he had seen Heirens around the building where he works
burglaries were reported in the
Police said, however, that a quick check showed none of the loot from such robberies in Heirens' possession. Another janitor, then told State's Attorney Tuohy and Orowley that Heirens “looked
building at 4108 Kenmore avenue in Mrs. Ross lived in that building. Neo Charges Filed ‘No charges have been filed against . Heirens in connection with any of
tween state's and defense attorneys. Prom his brief oral admissions and facts and evidence gathered by the police in their investigations, it - now is possible to present a rounded story of the youth's crimes. Heirens, who began burglarizing! when he was 9 years old, attended
a girl the night of Jan. 6. Afterwards, he rode the elevated
a few blocks to the neighborhood of the Degnan home. Money Believed There Heirens had been a delivery boy for a liquor store in the section, | & north side residential area. He knew the home. He thought there! was money there, The child's father, James, earned
thought he was a wealthy man,
area.
ladder in the yard. He placed the ladder
of the child's bedroom. She was sleeping. v He threw a sack over her head,
his shoulder down the ladder and | into an alley. Child Awakens, Screams Near the mouth of the alley child woke up and cried out Heirens apparently had not in-| tended to kill the child at that mo-|
which he had become familiar durAng his work as a delivery boy.
of Mrs. Ross.
yards of her home. There now remained the body.
too quickly unless he disposed o
to the basement, apartment at 5801 Winthrop ave.
wash tub. There, with a hunting knife h had carried with him, he severe ‘the child's head, arms and loge. Then he carried the pieces Wrapped in paper, others in Boome to various catch basins within five or six block radius of the child’ e threw the head in the arms in another, the torso in a
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would be washed
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he put them there. $20,000, bedroom. not note her body and thre into the window.
crime which was police
side and went to the university. (Ear
ort Youth Has Made Shocking Admissions. of Three Chicago Murders
indictments only| ..cno
While Heirens was in court, two janitors of buildings in the neigh-/| borhood of the Degnan’s north side
several times. Each time, he said,
Elmer Nelson,
a movie with a college friend and]
lines to the northside and walked |
$7500 a year, although the youth
Heirens had “spotted” the child and her bedroom previously while | burglarizing another home in the
After reaching the Degnan home, shortly before 2 a. m. on the morning of Jan. 7, he picked up a small
against 8 rear wall of the Degnan home | He summoned the warden and said | and climbed through the window, he had “confessed to nobody,
, the
ment, intending to wait until he! reached a nearby basement with |
it completely. He carried the body | Whispered to him, located in an untwined 4 his fingers -as they talked
But, within hours, the head, legs | and torso were recovered by police. Whose home she lived include anThe arms were found in a sewer Other daughter, Mrs. Grace Young, wedOUr Blocks. from-the-home. Feb, 19.,Charles, W, Va; The United Press sources said that Goodman, Huntington, W.Va. and’ In his oral confession Heirens spe- L. W. Goodman, Montgomery W mentioned the arms and|Va.:
left a ransom note, demand-|ington, W. Va, on the floor of the
His brief oral confession, pow-| J clarify whether he when he stole the child or returned to the home ter}
three and one-halt| the child's parents or but William Heirens|
loose on the manhunt in their history, 8 WAS finished with his grisly | puttons
d an elevated car, rode
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after James Degnan entered his daughter's bedroom to find her
The brutality of the Pegnan slaying was equally evident in the slayings of Mrs. Ross and Miss Brown. Victim Strangled, Stabbed Mrs. Ross, 43, was found slain in| her apartment about 18 blocks from the Degnan home, on June 5, 1045, Heirens entered her apartment) from a fire escape. Mrs. Ross was sleeping. She wakened when he en- | tered, and he strangled and stabbed her, He knotted a dress around her neck, washed a wound on her neck and applied Sthesive tape, appar-| ently in an attempt to stop the flow of blood. Then he rinsed her night clothing in a bathtub, took $12 | from her purse and left, Less than six months later, on; | Dec. 10, 1945, he entered the north side apartment of Frances Brown, 28, former Richmond, Ind. resident, who had been honorably dis-| charged from the WAVES only [three months previously. His intent | ( was burglary, not rape or murder.
Scrawled Note Found
Miss Brown stepped out of her| bathroom and surprised him. He shot her through the head and arm, | then waited cautiously until he feit| | sure the shots had not attracted! attention, Finding her still alive he stabbed her- in the chest with a 10-inch bread knife, then thrust it into her skull at the base.
like the man" he saw around a| po ooio4 the boay to the bath-| Helrens' cell at the county jail in Chicago.
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Heirens Confers With Attorney
FOOD PRICES UP: 3 MORE AVAILABLE
Survey Shows ois Bavers Have Greater Selection. (Continued From Page One)
the rump beef, at chain store prices in Evansville, Ind., on June 30. The ® (same list, including the beef for ii. | $1.36, totaled $5.58 at these stores yesterday. The difference was only 9 cents, excluding the beef price. At Columbus, O, the total price for the list went up from $6.25 to $7.07 in an independent grocery. In general, increases were found to be less pér item in chain stores. At Albuquerque, N. M., the fluctu= ation was from $5.20 to $6.44 at an independent store, and at El Paso, Tex., where prices were about the same at both types of stores, the total rose from $5.40 to $6.12 in the two weeks. New York Survey Complex These were representtive and average increases for all the cities surveyed. “In EI Paso and Albuquerque prices were unchanged for potatoes, ‘| tomatoes, onions and lemons. In Evansville eggs were down a cent a dozen at chain stores, potatoes were off 16 cents for 10 pounds, onions down T cents, tomatoes 6 cents, and lemons 1 cent,
was more difficut in New York because of the variety of the store groups ranging from the small independent to the large supermarket. Also notable was the reluctance of butchers to quote individual prices on separate items purchased in multiple sales. If the housewife there orders two or more types of
Acme Telephoto William Heirens, 17, confers with his attorney, John Coghlan, in
| room and dumped it, half kneeling, over the edge of the tub. He attempted to wash the body sod wrapped towels around her nec
“For heavens sake, catch me be- | fore I kill more. I cannot control | myself.”
one. Twenty-eight days later lit-|f
Dual Personality Shown Analysis of the youth's personality shows he was a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde, or dual personality, type, On one side was a “good self” ! which enabled him to make excel- | lent grades in school, even to win-|
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NINE & 004 ‘cONdUct award. On| Grandpa's in Spokane." |ing into their savings. It was then | the other side was his “bad self’—| “pu 0") Leking and giggling, he [that Mr. Hunter started the 8 self that he recognized and named was off for a game of last-tag with “house for Mrs. Carey” campaign. | |
| “George Murmans.” | Heirens considered he did noth- | ing wrong. George Murmans committed. the {bad things. Heirens used George Murmans as the alibi to soothe his troubled conscience.
Confession Is Denied The state's attorney's office, Heirens' attorneys, and Heirens himself, have denied he made any confession. Heirens’ latest denial! came last night in his cell after he had heard a United Press radio news broadcast of his admissions. |
how | can they say those things?” | Heirens asked to see newspapers lat the jail today. When their con-
picked her up and carried her on ference began he was asked point gnnual Parkersburg bean dinner will |
| blank: | “Did you make a confession?” | | “No comment,” Heirens said. “Did you make full admission to your attorney?” | “No comment.” ! “is your answer no comment on advice of counsel?” “Yes His attorney, John Coghlan, commenting on the stories of Heirens’ admissions this morning, said that
But he feared discovery—the same the “whole thing floors me." fear that earlier had motivated the| shooting and knifing of Miss Brown | | Coghlan continued. and the strangulation and knifing naive, to make such a statement.
“It does me an irreparable hurt,” “I am not that
These statements cannot come from
So, in the quiet of the early anyone.” winter morning, he strangled the. child with his hands, within a few!press conference he complained at
When Heirens was brought to the
| being portrayed with handcuffs on | Later, however, he consented to
He feared that it might be tound | pose with one of his jailers with
£| the cuffs on. When his lawyer
he twined and
Rue 1 = mi esi oC ype | NORE CARSON,
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" DIES AT ST. VINGENTS
Mrs. Lenore Carson, an employee a of Kiefer-Stewart Co. died today at 8 St. Vincent's hospital. She had lived
One, here the last five years, her recent third, and the legs in still another, [home being with, a daughter, Miss Apparently, ‘he hoped that the Brycie E. Carson, 5348 Speedway di
away, | “eliminating the possibility of dis- | prs,
A native of Huntington, W, Va, Carson was a member of a | Methodist church at Montgomery, lw. V. Survivors besides the daughter at
two sons, O. E.
two brothers and six sisters Services will be held at Huntwith burial there,
Jewelled Butto
LONDON, July 16 | Through the chill, stately halls of | ancient Warwick castle today Thomas George Cook went about hig buttling duties with a clear conscious. Police wrote finis to the | mystery of who stole the 'jewelled off the Earl of Warwick's
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vest, Mr, Cook is an excellent butler, &|but a poor judge .of horseflesh. He =ihad “borrowed” ‘the platinum and
Heirens| diamond buttons to defray the costs classes but | of a disastrous day af the track.
~ But the Parl, whose ancestors
class shortlyl made and unmade kings of Engfala gr 43 \
Sons of Dead War Hero Romp
eked. ome pik an As Fund for New Home Grows
the slayings, despite conferences be- |
{P.) —Two little boys—one the * The warning was a / prophetic image”
[tle Suzanne was kidnaped and grass today for the first time in |
| slain. : |almost a year.
and RicHard Carey to romp in his [uring 16 Germans single-handed. | {back yard.
lon grass was
Ronald, 5. |which started off a fund to buy a reach the $500 mark by the end of | gown in price. house for Mrs. Eva Carey and her |the week.
two fatherless boys, Carey home last week to report on a house it will be” Mr. Hunter | reported higher butter prices were |
| to George A. Stilwell,
Solved, Butler Was Gamble
o Seek indiciments " Degren, An
A comparatively accurate survey |
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‘TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1046 | :
WAVE Slayings
Colonas Is Tied Up'i n Favorite Dish
INDIANA OFFICER
1S SHOT BY EX-B
Screaming Gunman Killed Later by Police.
LOS ANGELES, July. 16 (U.P.) .— Col. Irving H, Willett, 54, of Ft, Wayne, Ind, & Veterans’ hospital physician here, was in critical condition today with four bullet wounds inflicted by an .apparently deranged
a policeman: Col, willett' was changing a tire on his automobile in front of the Sawtelle Veterans’ hospital when Hensel E. Thomas, 28, opened fire with a .22 caliber revolver. At the hospital Col, Willett was given an even chance to recover, He was wounded in the abdomen, neck and back. “I'll shoot any army captain that shows his face,” witnesses quoted the gunman as screaming. Threatens Officers Col, Willett, now on terminal leave, staggered into the admine istration building of the hospital
—and—exelaimed:
“I've been shot. out there did it.” Thomas, whose discharge papers
That crazy man
Jerry Colonna was tied up today, completely entangled in his
favorite dish. “I'll string along with §paghettl” said Colonna, a cook in his own right. Brushing the tag-ends of his lunch from his handlebar mustache, the comedian explained he ate spaghetti at least three times a week. He’s shown here maintaining his record at the Marott hotel, where he awaited his Police Pal club show at the Coliseum tonight. Proceeds wil] buy sports squipment for YauugSten,
meat she usually learns only what her total bill amounts to. Fresh Meats Increase New York butchers questioned about prices say they're charging “about a nickel or a dime” above the old: OPA prices, but actually July 168 (U., “I promised to let them play on | they charge what the traffic will ‘very [the lawn at my place,” Mr. Hunter | oop Both meat and butter are of his dead war hero- | sald, “and that's all they talked | oon tif, ather—rolled and tumbled on real | | about for the next three days.” Their father, Sgt. Charles PF. | Carey. was Wyoming's only Conwho was their | gressional Medal of Honor winner. invited Ronald | He was killed in France after cap-|
OHEYENNE, Wyo,
were unchanged, milk was two cents | lower. is now plentiful at 80 to 88 cents a pound. Under the OPA it sold at 56 cents, early in July shot to 72 cents and then to a high of 93 before | leveling off.
J. M, Hunter, ather’s best friend,
Bills Cut Savings “Our place don't got no grass on| Mrs. Carey and the boys were t” Richard, 7, explained breath- making out fairly well on the $130] essly. “Last time we got to playa month they got from the govern-|
last summer at! ment until medical bills began eat- formerly at 82 cents was up to $1
Mr. Hunter said the fund was unchanged. Knoxville shoppers
Trio Injured, Three Arrested
| three others were arrestéd in-traf- Meridian st. In San Francisco bread prices! ! fie accidents here last night.
Butter, scarce on June 30, {206 N. Sheffield ave.
Marksbury, 1 ave. were injured when the car in|license and James Fisher, 21, of 535! which they were riding collided | N. Pine st, riding with Miller, was| NEW YORK, July 16 (U. P.)— with a car driven by Philip Man- | charged with violating the firearms) gus, 53, of 1442 N. Bellview ave, at act when he claimed ownership of Cincinnati reported a heavy psf on Soe ave. and Washington st. a revolver found in the car. crease in fresh meats. Boiled ham| pg, Mangus also was slightly hurt. |
In Auto Mishaps During Night
Max Herrald, 26, of 1927 N. driver of one car, was held on a charge of drunken drivKenneth Rhea Munday, 17, of ing. Roy Miller, 21, of 205 N. Pine and Lloyd st, driver of the other car, was 16, of 402 8. Warman charged with failure to have a
Three persons were injured and |
Three men were arrested follow-| ave. was slightly hurt when he was
although one chain store was selling! jno a collision of two automobiles at struck by a car driven by John, it at 60 cents. Onions, potatoes, washington and Noble cts. early Vernia, milk, peas, lemons, bread were all | today.
1720 S. Randolph st. in! {the 1100 block, Prospect st.
Pred Check, 7, of 905 Fletcher
listed his home as Joplin, Mo, stood brandishing his gun as motor« |cycle officers, radio patrol cars, {federal guards and sheriff's depuities arrived. Patrolmen R., D. Garrett and {W. E. Walker found him, poised {in front of a door, waving his gun lat a cluster of nurses and at pae [tients lolling on the lawn, Asks to Be Shot Thomas ripped open his shir front and shouted: “Shoot me.” . Patrolman Garrett rushed him, but Thomas jerked free and began shooting at another officer. As police returned his fire, the first shots hit him in the leg. “Aim higher,” he screamed, firing back. * Of 16 shots fired at Thomas, Ba found their mark in .his legs. chest and abdomen. He dled at the spot.
3903 GI'S ARE DUE IN NEW YORK TODAY,
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' were due to arrive here today: Tufts Victory, from Le Havre, with 903 troops; Westerly Victory, from Le Havre, with 1213 troops; Norway Victory, from Southampton, with 520 troops; Sheepshead Bay Victory, from Bremen, with 1268 troops.
Mr. Hunter, who donated the $25 growing rapidly, He hoped it would| found vegetables plentiful; hence Fewer Takers Found
“We don't know just what kind of | Both Cleveland and Albuquerque |
went. to the | the campaign. sald, “but one thing's sure—it will| finding fewer takers. In Cleveland It was then that the boys told have a big lawn with plenty of it was from 76 to 86 cents a pound | him how they felt about grass. I grass.” {and some was being returned to | - the creameries. In . Albuquerque | butter had risen from 54 cents in | chain stores and 67 cents in inde- |
No Beans, Bacon or SugarPendents nog yesterday's 80-cent And No Parkersburg Dinner |": of 30 carloads of meat
n Washington added to an already Times Special past has attracted crowds of 3000 | | plentiful supply but it was slow CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, July to 5000 persons. It has been dis-| {to reach retail showcases. Meats 16.—"No beans, no bacon, no sugar." | continued for the past three years, and vegetables appeared to be holdThis, in brief, is the reason the however, due to food and trans- | ing the line. | portation difficulties. Similarly, at Columbus, houseThe bean dinner, cooked in huge | Wives were shying away from high president of iron kettles in the open air, was|prices. One chain store had butthe association in charge of the af<| started soon after the Civil war by | ter left Saturday night. fair which dates ‘back more than the Parkersburg G. A. R. camp. And Memphis reported there was
not be revived this year, according |
60 years When the last member of the camp | more butter on the market because Held annually at Parkersburg, died, jt was carried on by other! shoppers were not paying higher south of here, the dinner in the resident s of the community. prices when they can get Oleomar-' garine, Butter there was up 10 cents to 75 cents over July 1 in
DRIVERLESS CAR KILLS ONE, INJURES THREE in independents
tsburgh prices were still CHICAGO, July 18 (U. P.).— | aru particularly on meat stalled, driver-less automobile sud-
{ and butter of which there was vir-
|denly sprang to life and careened tually ‘none in legitimate channels down a crowded loop sidewalk yes- | two weeks ago.
American war, proves Som srs vel terday, killing one person, injuring| Miners thefi were protesting they that the anopheles mosquito com-| three and driving scores of shoppers yere unable to get enough food for municated malaria and paved the into the strees. | heavy work. way.for world-wide control of the George G. Yule, 38, Evanston,| Now the meat supply is good but! Ill, an internal revenue department | distributi dreaded disease. stribution is spotty. Also there
agent, was crushed to death by the | was plenty of b ades later, Dr. Reed's| plenty of butter but bread reFour . dec automobile. Injured were Mrs. Tillie! mained s short. discovery and the
results thereof Meltzer, 54; Angelo Baio, 24, md were of vast importance to other Howard Steward, 24, Negro, all
Chicago. IN T N R i t Alerican soldiers Agi hg ag Ber) Mrs, Constance Maniscalco, 25,! 0K 00 war in the Pacific tropics | left the automobile while she =" BOOKER WASHINGTON
For Pvt. Kissinger's contribution | | shopping. Wayne Sarvis, 32, a parkWASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.).
chain stores and as high as.89 cents
YELLOW FEVER TEST VOLUNTEER IS DEAD
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to medical science, congress granted | ing lot attendant, said the motor) him a $100-a-month pension. The | Went dead as he backed up the| American Medical society gave him
a home in Huntington in 1926. He lived in Wabash and Huntington counties until several years ago when he moved to Florida because of failing health,
VETS GET LAUGH ON DRAFT BOARD
the hood and the car sped down sent to the senate a bill to coin a the sidewalk. He sald he must have | special 50-cent piece in honor of touched the starter, | the
—————— | Negro educator, after hearing Rep. [Howard W. Smith (D. Va), SPY SU PECT SU for oa tolerance. OF ESCAPING DEAT FY in the world,” Mr. Smith told the house, “Those who indulge in
e too much race prejuSEATTLE, July 16 (U. P.).—The| the nefarious practice of criticiz-
WORCESTER, Mass. (U. P)— (ais of Russian Naval Lt. Nicolai|in& minority races will find reurThe draft board's house here may G. Redin, charged with five counts|Pution as did the Nazis. be drafted—to house veterans. The Of espionage against the United| ‘We Reed the co-operation of
: " ! Il our minorities in this, our g | States, rested with a jury today, 2 : red brick house on Highland st. that The handsome young spy suspect | STeatest hour of trial in history.”
served during the War as headquar- | Fad one assurance—that he will not! Washingtn, & former slave,
ters for two draft boards may BE siiffer the death penalty if found founded Tuskegee university, Ala. guilty. | The memortal coin-will-be sold to.
Federal Judge Lloyd Black dis- | finance a memorial at his Franks) closed in a surprise announcement | in county, Va., birthplace.
re Tt wate vr ron BIKINF-KING. TO _ SEE n Mystery NEXT A-BOMB BLAST
capital punishment. “I am satisfied that this is not al lcapital case” Judge Black said. | OFF BIKINI ATOLL, July 16 (0. “The life of Lt. Redin is not at|P) —King Juda of Bikini has been stake.” invited to see what the next atomic|
~ Judge Black's land, is a man who values a good ume after both prosecution and land.
used to house two or more veterans’
| families because of
the sh shortage here.
housing
butler above a set of waistcoast|yefense attorneys had delivered, The invitation came from Vice | buttons. Despite the Earl's for- their final arguments. Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, opgration | giveness, however, a magistrate'’s ' godin. an officer in the Soviet crossroads ‘commander, who called
court said the fine and costs would total $76.40. When the buttons were stolen, the Earl was in Africa shooting lions. He said yesterday that he; ———— hadn't worn that particular vest for 500,000 LEFT HOMELESS Bikini last March so that the 10 or 12 years anyhow. CALCUTTA, July 16 (U, P.).— atom bomb tests might be held. | “I'm afraid this is not the first Floods which swept through south-| Adm. Blandy thanked them for time. Mr. Cook has had racing eastern Bengal and , Chittagong | their “kindness and co-operation” trouble,” the Earl confided. “I'we district left most of t always stumped up and he has al- inhabitants Pei fo destitute, | were happy in their newly- +thatched ways paid back. " ‘it was- reported today. - homes, |
at. Portland, Ore, March 26, as hel 'erday at ther new home on Ronwas preparing to board a Russia- | |gerik island, 130 miles east of
bound Soviet steamer, tkini. : The natives and their king left
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