Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — CONFESSES GIRL’S MURDER [ARTICLE]

CONFESSES GIRL’S MURDER

Gary Negro Minister Says He Killed Sister-In-Law. Gary, Ind., Feb. 23.—The Rev. William Steele, pastor of the Nineteenth Avenue Colored Baptist church, has confessed the murder of his wife’s sister, Harriet Thompson, eighteen, flllso colored, whom he strangled to death in the parlor of her home Monday afternoon S-teele says that during a quarrel the girl struck him with a poker, and he retaliated by choking her. He merely meant to scare her, he said, and when he left her on the floor he did not know she was dead.