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t)Boy’s ‘Perfect Crime’ Tale Is Now Murder ConfessionThe perfect crime story of 17-ycar-old Harry E. Byers, Jr., former Athens County resident, became a murder confession quickly Saturday after his arrest for the fatal shooting of his father, age 47, in Columbus, according to T. Vincent Martin, assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County.When Athens County Sheriff - ...... — 1......... .......George Bateman went to Poston on Saturday to Inform the boy's mother, Mrs. Hazel Byers, of the tragedy, she said that she haddreamed during the night that the father had killed the boy. Others in the household at Poston, where the mother Is housekeeper for Jesse Hunter, said that she had told them of the dream, the sheriffsaid. Her first knowledge of themurder came from Bateman. Mrs.Byers and her husband were separated.Harry E. Byers, Sr., victim of the shooting, was a brother of Maywood Byers, of near Connetl.Franklin County authorities said that young Byers admitted that he had shot and killed his father nnd then dumped the body in a snowbank beside a country road, north* 9of Columbus, late Friday. A milkman found the body, nnd officers discovered the son in an automobile stalled in a snowdrift nearby.In the youth’s billfold, officials said, they found plans for a perfect crime. They included advice on how the victim should iw? shot, how the body should be disposed of, and the nature of the story to to* told in the event of police questioning.FATHER BOLGHT RIFLEOfficial* said that young Byers had told conflicting stories of the circumstances. One account was that he had shot the father when they engaged in an argument while repairing the family automobile. The youth used a rifle which his father had bought for him.Franklin County Coroner John G.Gravis said an autopsy disclosed two bullets in the back of the father's head. The elder Bvers was a truck driver and he and the hoy, a sophomore in high school, lived together in Columbus.nRsibAd1oACav0 ed2JJ1tt(CTO'0Aia
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jan 07, 1945
Page 5
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