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. ban no o£ 13.TYrrizes were uAvaraeu to various students for essays dealing with the prevention of lire.SLAYER ADMITSFddymsm.Cornuschocwlysuedlater s eon-mTect out U,* ) byaREAL MOTIVENegro Youth Sought to Assault Pretty Glen Mills Matronu.siccided in the dm ore, group ten lie t whatL llUguTHISi other ounecsd x such xandec Forgu-Beisler 10 dis-as the fier ar-Judgcsecuted y WiNirned ad Mor-Lo pos-before is ar-lectlves Morton i W,a.rd md dis-several ax. He Btetser. llie case 5 In the ee sells ig to beenteredposses-partner, a.o£ not hv t heRcvcrigo for alleged ill treatment at the bunds of Fred Kobanj, husband of the woman4 brutally murdered at the Glen Mills School last Friday afternoon, was not the motive of Alexander M. AVitUams, her IS •year-old slayer.This was revealed in a new confession made by I lit* youth to District Attorney William .1. Mac Car ter, Jr., and counly detectives, who admitted that he sought to feloniously flssault the matron. In the first confession, made on Tuesday night 1o Major H. B. Hickman and oilier officials of the school, the boy had /lamed the killing on a desire to €'gct even” with the husband of Mrs. Vida Robare.The‘district attorney said^that he had doubted whether the youth had told the entire irulli and therefore subjected him t further questioning. Williams stuck to part of his original story that he entered the cottage where Mrs.. Robare was matron to steal shoe blackening, with the Idea of obtaining a number of cans. U Ja a matter of record, incidentally, that the boy at ono time while an inmate of Cottage No. b, stole some 110 cans of blackening.When he failed In his attempt to pry open the stores closet on the main floor, the bov heard Mr a, Robare moving, about .on the second door. Then the fresh idea entered his mind, he said, and, picking Up the ice pick, he llp-loed upstairs.1FL took the ice p£ck,M ho said. so If she said she would tell on me, I would kill her.-1 .The boy related how Mrs/Robare. j ordered him from her bedroom and tried to force him out. Repulsed in his advances, he slabbed his victim ‘Twenty or twenty-live times. Then he heard some one walking on the sidewalk In front of the cottage anddrove his ice pick inlo the woman's heart up to the hilt. g£ look her in-NfiUnillt;tilledshowwasn moiI etn hA ugi3,M2TfcHo ci will ro eelJI.TVreyetort:husiNClcn11,0Fed####*+++####444*ij444iContinued on Page Fourteen
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Chester Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Oct 10, 1930
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