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Soldiers Grove ShootingReenacted by Harold BestPrairie du Chien, Wis., Aug. 18— (/P)—Sheriff Oliver White said today that Harold Best, 15, had re enacted for him the killing of his 11-year-old sister, Mildred.Signed Confession 1 The sheriff said Harold, held on a delinquency charge, admitted in a signed and witnessed statement Monday he shot his sister June 4 after she repulsed his improper advances.Yesterday, White took Harold to the Soldiers Grove farm home of the children’s aunt, Mrs. Lillian Shaw, where the girl was slain at night while the Shaws were absent.bras?Conscience Strickenago—Three years ago a large sign bearing the words, '’The President,” was stolen from the door of President Robert M. Hutchins’ office at the University of Chicago.The sign is back in place again. It was contained in a package which an unidentified young man handed to a university switchboard operatorWhite said Harold showed him, ^ the comment: This turned up where he stood when the fatal shot I at a Party*was fired and pointed out the spotwhere he had thrown the ejected shell when he left the house to lock his dog in the barn.“Telling the Truth”This time I’m telling the truth and I’m going to stick to it,” White quoted Harold as saying. The hoy previously repudiated several confessions White said he had offered in the week following the crime. !District Attorney James P. Cullen,' of Crawford county, said he would!not press the setting of a trial datefor the hoy until he conferred with I Harold’s attorney, Carl N, HilJ, ofMadison. iThat's My .Story, AndFalls City, Neb.—The wild man at© the evidence in the case—feathers and all—but Leonard Roland, 19, o*’ Rulo, went to jail anyhow.Roland pleaded guilty to stealingchickens which he said werewild man”chased by a• WI vi) show.pur-in a carni-• iHonest judge,” said Roland, heate them alive—feathers and allInteresting,” commenteddi?e. Ten days in jail.:Ithe ' *tIRhinelander Paperi *Report On Shaw Autopsy Pr. C. H. Bunting, state patholo-1 gist, in a final report of the autopsy on the body of Orla Shaw.Co. Shows Profit!*uncle oithe slain girl, said poisoning probably was a factor” in Shaw'sPr. Bunting’s preliminary resaid a bacterial infection wasf I *atrtmmRhinelander, Wis., Aug. 18-—The Rhinelander Paper companyreported yesterday earnings of$207,193 for the first seven monthsof 1937, equal to $1.38 a share ofcommon stock.4lt; ’
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 18, 1937
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