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TOLEDO Ohio Wi— A gnan [IT year-old youth has admitted he raped and stabbed Mary Jolem Friess, the attractive auburn. hooured high school girl whose near ly nude body was found in a lonely wooda near here last Thursday .Lucas County police said today. , Her face slashed and her body battered, the 17-year-old coed was discovered after she failed to re turn home from a trip to her mural mailbox She had been dragged from her bicycle. Her pink blouse and biut denim shorts were torn and dov tora said she had been raped. Detective Capt Alfred Bartcowi ak of the sheriffs office said the youth Bernard Schreiber, admit ted the crime and implicated al 12 year-old companion, who was brought in for questioning today. ' Sheriff William Hirsch said Schreiber will be formally charged today. Bartcowiak said Schreiber told this story __ The two boys noted the Monday before the slaying that the girl came to a rural mailbox to pick up mal. They decided then to attack Iber . He and the younger boy hid in sweeds near the mailbox and when the girl passed the 12-year-old leaped from the weeds and hit her i with a club The girl bolted into the woods, Schreiber in close pursuit. The younger boy slugged the girl again, while she was struggling with Schreiber, then ran away Schreiber pulled out a knife and stabbed her twice Afterwards he raped her, and went home for lunch, officers said.
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Zanesville Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 20, 1954
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