Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1919 — GENERAL ANO STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ANO STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Ports ol the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities* % SAYS HE’S SON OF SEN. NEW Young Man Killed Sweetheart at .' Los Angeles, Calif. Harry S. New, aged 32, and claiming to be a son of U. 8. Senator Harry S. New of Indiana, surrendered to the police of Loa Angeles, Calif., Saturday morning, when he drove up to the police station In an automobile containing the body of a young woman, Miss Frieda Lesser, aged 21, of Glendale, Calif., his zweetheart, whom he said he had shot and killed in a lonely place on the Tepangro Canyon road, after a quarrel in which the girl had refused to marry him. After commiting the deed he placed the body in the tonneau of the big sedan car he was driving, covered it over with blankets and drove to the city where he surrendered to the police. Yonng Nev said he aar a son of Mrs. Lui i Burger of Glendale, (alls., who was in Indianapolis at the time of the tragedy but. w}m left immediatr'.y for her Lome after being appraised of her son’s act. She said that she was divorced t>*om Senator New abort eighteen vears ago and that the letter is the father of the young murderer. She r.lso stated th it she expected to 1 w’re Senator New and solicit his aid in behalf of the son.

A dispatch Jrom Washington Saturday night 'says: Senator New issued a Statement tonight denying that he and Mrs. Burger ever were married or divorced. When shown a dispatch from Indianapolis quoting Mrs. Burger, Senator New said: 1 "The only thing I care to add is that the statement from any source that Mrs. Burger and I were ever, either married or divorced at any time or under any name is absolutely untrue."