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Couple Confesses Killing Girl in West Virginia
In Charleston West Virginia a young couple Junius Ross Smith 27 and Lilly May Smith 28 of St Albans confessed to beat death of Ida Smith age 3 over medicine for a cold. State Trooper W S Webb said murder charges were filed and coroner Dr Goff P Lilly ruled death a brain hemorrhage.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
W. S. Webb
Junius Ross Smith
Lilly May Smith
St. Albans
Ida Smith
Goff P. Lilly
Kanawha County
Webb
Smith