Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — BOY A CONFESSED SLAYER [ARTICLE]

BOY A CONFESSED SLAYER

After Four Months’ Silence Admits He Killed Btepfather. Des Moines, Aug. 17.—After four months’ silence, Harry Belze, fourteen years old, has confessed to Sheriff Grant KlUmer of Indlanola, la., that on March 2 last he shot to death his stepfather, E. J. Carraher. The boy says that his stepfather while drunk, attempted to kill him.