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' Council-.; offf-aadcibstalled'1 pIs Made Today After Police. SpendSixteen Hours Grilling Suspects—FiendishCrime is Partially .Unravelledby Officials.::Akron, c Oct.- 30—Joseph Ober-. meier, 50, was- slain and his body set- afire iu the J. Grant Hyde garage Wednesday'night by' a drunken. and infuriated automobile'' driver. This announcement was' made today after -police bad spent 16 hours grilling four suspects, two o£ whom are said to have confessed to detectives Ed-'McDonnell and Bert Eckerraan.Details of the crime are reportedto have, come from a 16 year oldPolice Lieutenant Kills One in Battle and Is Himself Wounded.' Union- City, N. J., Oct. 30-—Police lieutenant Emil Fubrman,. “shot it out” with seven men ' todav andstudent, one of -the party of fourwhose, machine broke down .Wednesday night and was towed- to. the garage.' - This lad. implicated the others', and identified the murderer,. it is said, though names-are being. suppressed for;tho present.According to.the alleged confessions,.- the owner - and driver ■ of the wrecked auto, aslced Obermeier, night watchman qt the garage to-make - Immediate .- repairs or a - financial- settlement,-the car -having been bought of the Hyde Company. The autoist was intoxicated,, according to police, as .were the others. Obermeier tried to .explain that.he was not a. mechanic and could neither malte repairs nor financial adjustments.Suddenly the' owner, in a frpnzy, seized a hammer and. struck the watchman on the head,Obermeier. fell forward and his assailant continued to’ beat himuntil the hammer finally sank into the: skull and the handle was shattered. - ’ •/I a 'n■tie: = thlt; triichlt;ithetaielad'Fly.. • lt;•Q3 iPBTilt;SiOecczaithetodtermilhoi - I of out Do i uni IX1me.uai
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Piqua Daily Call and Piqua Press Dispatch
Piqua, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1925
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Stark L.
OH, USA 17 Mar 2021
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