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Confession Solves Pomeroy MurderTwo Suspects Break DownAnd Admit Killing Miner-Implicate A Third PartyPO.MKKOY. 0.. March -7.—-’to tt-e Uuit'-d Pr^s? informant-iTwo of liv- three suspects held j tlien said:here in connection with the murder “We wrapped a sack about Me*of James MeCumber, 63. whoseCumber's head to keep blood fromboiv was found in an abandoned spotting- the floor.ri.-tern, have confessed and the 'Then we carried him to the ab-thinl has indicated he will tell his ! an dotted cistern, three miles awa\. part in tl.c brutal slaying. Special \ “He was not dead, so we hit Prosecutor 1-. K. Davi? announc-, him on tli head again, shot him, ed todaj. i then tumbled him into the cistern.i“We piled loaves on top of himW e obtained one coniession ivn ;... ... 1 to hide his body.pheatmg a second man. Davis; ,.. .. i „ Rhoades corroborated this story,said, “ll-en we approached the l., Tr , .*•,_! d was declared,man implicated. Ho, too. conte*?-•, , . , ,v *• ji Davis said first degree murdered and implicated tne third. *Davis refused to disclose the names of the three men. It was learned, however, that the names of the men questioned are John Hendricks, Richard Rhoades andcharges will be filed against ih*•*three men.fTen men were arrested within an hour alter McCumbor’s body was discovered.Me Cumber vanished on theIJohn Bryant, the latter a negro. } nigU of ^ B|ood ^Upjidnok?, it was learned. de-j in his home convinced police dared Bryant hired him andjhe ^ been murdered. At firs* Rhoades to kill McCumber, tiio i ir^s beliyagd Jus bo4t bfrhejj . negr M^Cuaifcov w«ndd re j Rh f* x 7veal a bootlegging businesc Mm to L^bavis tmMKectmcd to dismissra1have been conducted by hk». ''Hendricks, recording to tlrs i United Pass infomant, said tliafc | on the night McC umber was killed tee three of them went to his home. When McC umber openetl-Urn door in response to their knockthe mystery ^ff^ouriding* the death of two womejyliere' several weeksago, both of whom were believed to have been slain tor tear they would dhulge bootlegging activities her**.The Prosecutor yesterday, saidlihe v as felled b\ a blow on the! he believeu the same men whoe; in-an. j murdered Me Cumber, were respanHendrick.- conte.-sion accordincrsible for the death of the women.**Cicede- went to pay cxpen'e? and national dope ring with headquar-i debt.- on the property.lt;
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Lancaster Daily Gazette
Lancaster, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 27, 1926
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