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KITES HELD1FftR YOUTHVALLEJO, Sept. 12.—While 20-year-old Raymond Reisen was being buried'at* the Masonic Cemetery Fri-| day, his slayer broke under a fonr-hotfr grilling at the county jail and|confessed the crime. , „ |Tht confessed slayer is Frank Mc-|Dotrell. 32, former sailor, who was* S up by Deputy Sheriff George1 Fraser on the Napa highway sevenmiles north, of .here.Breaks DownAt. first maintaining he was thrown from a horse and had cut his face on a barbed ware fence, McDowell finadv broke down under the questioning y Deputv Sheriff Ernest Loekie and admitted the slashes were made byReisen’s pen knife.Admits Hold-t-p McDowell said he had tried to hole up Reisen on a lonely road near heie Sunday night and that the youth had attacked him with the pen knife. Ret sen however, told on his death bed how he had fought the holdup man to protect his fiancee, Miss Madeline^ McDowell confessed he had stabbed Reisen in the abdomen with a 14-inth “throat knife” used fm killing cattle He also1 confessed to se\eial othei holdups and was identified by two his victims, according to the heiift -office. He uas charged with muiuci
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Sat, Sep 12, 1931
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