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i)Eierntntltoaroofhehele*•en•usnoifl-ler.*x-ekhoutJr.ir-rs.asi*eaholasfaslit;orsin-er-»s-:ho-geto-in-hetonsadin-icari-jn-b-hel.)lQinosler-or-re-entrn-•is-[»h-wniretiatre-Hle:n-m-arlLhoIgnri5-iiotvs-m-be-as-to illy in erne-[he at-Lheicferaofpfl-SCHRAMM TELLS TALE OF MURDER OF GARY PRIESTDescribes to Capt. E. O. Cronan Method of Accomplishing the Crime.NAMES “JOE THE WOP” AS HIS ACCOMPLICEPrisoner Believed to Be Member of a Chicago Gang of Bandits.fh.-ag; A i ma Auedan;hu3Kn«dayteleburwerOff!toWednesday. Feb. 20 Mike Schramm, the confessed murderer of Father Kayser, the Follsh priest in Gary, Indiana, nearly three years ago. was again before Detective Captain Cronnn today and gave additional details of how the priest was done to dea h in a struggle to take ^2.000 nway from him.According to the latest story told by the ai^sussin. he mot another man known to him only as “Joe the WopIn a poolroom In a downtown district of Gary. Joe asked him if he waa i game enough to go and got some mon-; »y. and he answered that he was.The pair wont to tho priest's house and “Joe the Wop rook Schramm to an open window through which hejl5lii showed the priest counting a huge ^ pile of money, the proceeds of a charity baauuu*. Then he stationedicr.Cla16.cruspliWilMr.refiFtOltre;1 thrSchramm to guard the back door ofthe house and he opened fire with a revolver at the priest.Apparently some of his shots wont Wild for pictures of the priest's study show bullet marks all over the walls, but all did not miss their mark and the priest mortally wounded struggled to his feet, ran through sovoral rooms of the house and out the back door In a vain effort to get help.At the back door he was met by Rchranim. who struck him down with a heavy cluh. The priest dropped and never moved. Schramm then, according to his story, became terrified and ran. “Joe the Wop, in the meantime, had entered the house by the open window and gathered up the money, making off with the booty.Sen ram m said he did not see “Joe the Wop for several days afterward, but when he did see him he asked him about bis share of the money, only to bo told You are lucky to bo alive much less whining about dough.After this Schramm did not turry I long in Gary, but came eiiau He haa been in Bridgeport since last September. shortly after which he came under the notice of Detective Captain C'ror.an. who at that early date decided that fche man needed watching The result was his arrest yesterday.Schramm declared to Captain Cronin today that for the first time in nearly three years he was able to Sleep and r«*t well Inst night. He scams nnxtous to make a clean breast of his share of the murder, corno to trial, and have it all over with.Captain Cronan te of the opinion * that Schramm is a member of th*I ban I t gangs that infected Chicago a | number of years ago and Is putting him under a oontinuous grilling in an effort to worm out of him what con-n citon ho had with a number of o:her crimes committed by gangstora tin tho Windy City.thethathofulseethewoiEmboyKntheoff!TvhpHtodidtoofsonAirchi ma the p re c**rthehaiaretehterGeicanthatoabiMWTotndntalc*theprobee:
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Bridgeport Republican Farmer
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Fri, Feb 22, 1918
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