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Ex-Con Slays Young Bride With Baseball Bat SundayEather Ryan Confesses; Says Bride of Two Weeks Nagged Him Abouf WomenA 21-year old bride of less thara two weeks whs brutnlly beaten to death with a baseball bat here Sunday afternoon by her ex-consisthusband.Mrs Father Persall Ryan, wat found unconscious on a bloodstained bed in her apartment about 3 p.in Sunday by city policemen Shelby llarbison and Heinian Woodard.Kai her the officers had seen Ryan on the streets and had told him te go home They said he was drinking Later they saw Kim in a taxi. They stopped the taxi, notieed that Ryan had blood on hui), and began questioning him. lie admitted that he had just killed his wifeMKS. Ill Til I'CRSAIX RYAN '• In . Biters huined to the apart-merit at 3rd Ave. East and 3rd St i eel, where they found Mr®. Ryan bloody and unconscious. They rushed her to Cullman Hospital w here she died at 6:45 p. inRyan, 35, has a long criminal record. He was released from Kilby Prison about two months ago after serving a two year sentence for assault with intent to murder.This reporter visited Ryan in hla cell in the County Jail Monday morning.Wo were married two weeks ago today in Mississippi, Ryan said. “I had been going with her for three years. She had heed throwing women up to me since we had been married. She told in© yesterday that : hlt; was going to step out on mo.”Ryan talked willingly and showed no emotion. Before he eon-sented to the interview, he asked that lie be allowed to s|euk privately with this reporter.I thought I had been Ms»b r. he said. I gave her my w/foi© pay check SaturdayShe told inc then that ail she mai ried me for was » thut she wouldn't have to work 'I had just made a payment ora her furn'ture, and she told me that she wasn’t going to live with me any more alter 1 got her furniture paid off, Ryan saidWhen questioned about the actual crime, Ryan said: “I wasdrunk. I don't know what happened They told me she was ora the bed. I don't know how she got there oeeause 1 was too drunk to put her on the bed.Ryan and his wife was alone at the time. Mrs. Ryan’s parents her brother arid her five-year-old daughter lived in the same house, Ryan said they had all gone to visit relatives near Johnson’s Crosa-ing.Chivf Deputy Tom Waldrop said the fight apparently started in the kitchen.A sack of meal, from whicb some had been poured into a pan, and milk were on the table, Waldrop said He said the pan of meal was partly spilled. It looked as if he was fixing to make cornbread.’* When officers entered the house, two pans containing potatoes and beans were burning on the stove.Officers found the bloodstained baseball bat leaning against the wall between the refrigerator and a cabinet radio.Bloodstains were found on the floor from the kitchen to the bedroom across the hall. Bloodstains were also found on the couch and. on the head of the bed.Ryan is charged with first degree murder on a warrant sworn out by Sheriff W. C. Waldrop.Ryan’s criminal record datua back to July 26. 1939. when he was arrested for public drunkenness^. Since that time he has been arrested six times for public drunkenness, twice on a peace proceedings charge, three times for being absent without leave from the Army, and’ once on a charge of assault with intent to murder. It was on the, latter charge that he was sent to prison. He had cut Mrs. Ryan;, then Miss Ruth Persall, with ar knife.
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Cullman Times
Cullman, Alabama, US
Thu, Oct 29, 1953
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