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ADMITS FIRINGFATAL SHOT ATBENZIETaken'To Manistee As Feel-• • • • 9ing ;Runs F^gh Among Beulah Citizens(United Prcfls). Manistee, Mich., March; 20—Morris Brozofsky, . ex-coit-vict who confessed he [shot and killed I Undersheriff Edward Rarey, will plead, guilty . and throw himself funon the mercy of the court when brot to trial, officers said today.Brozofsky was .brought here after /his * arrest at Traverse City, as officers' feared to take him into Benzie county, because’ «of, the high feeling there against him.*Manistee, Mar. 20 Morris Brozofsky, 3 G-year-old ex-conyict who confessed he shat, and' killed Undersheriff Edward Rarey, of Benzie county, today indicated he would stand trial and claim self-defense. »Brozofsky, who -elud'ed posses from Saturday night until Tues* day night, when he was arrested at Traverse City, confessed yesterday afternoon;“It was Either- hiin or due whoWould get hurt,” Brozofsky said, “and my gun went off first.” vBrozofsky* Is aid he was accosted1 by Rarey, who ordered hftn to pUt up his hands. / .“I put up, my hands with my gun in the right one,”, he said. ’“Then I saw hipi reach for his right coat pocket and then Xfired.” ^ : vBrozo.fsky iVs brought here iri^ stead pf ; to Beulah because of the high Ttlihg, against him there. •’ —i i_— ___
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Mount Pleasant Daily Times
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1930
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