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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 13. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.
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Adolph Hotelling
Confesses Killing
Dorothy Schneider
IN CONFESSION SAYS FIVEYEAR-OLD GIRL
THREATENED TO TELL MOTHER SO HE
STABBED HER TWICE WITH KNIFE—AS
SERTS HE DID NOT TORTURE GIRL—BROOD
ING OYE R “TERRIBLE HICKMAN” CASE IM
PELLED CRIME, HE DECLARES—CONFESSES
TO SIMILAR ATTACKS ON TWO OTHER CHILD
REN, TWO AND EIGHT-YEARS-OLD.
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 17. (JP)—Adolph Hotelling, slay
er of five-year-old Dorothy Schneider, was impelled to
commit the crime by brooding over the Hickman case, he
declared in his confession the police said.
Although a complete text of the confession was not
available because the officers wTho took it rushed out of
town with him, a stenagrapher’s notes show he declared
the “terrible Hickman’’ case kept him awake night after
night.
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DROVE, DESERTED ROAD
Hotelling said he spent sleepless
night after night turning over in his
mind details of the Hickman crime.
When he picked up the Schneider girl
and drove with her on a deserted road
he told her he would kill her if she
carried out her threat to tell her
mother.
DESCRIBES KILLING
According to police notes after
walking the girl across the field from
where the car was stalled, to the bank
of the creek, she repeated her threat
and he kiled her stabbing her twice
with a knife.
Hotelling asserted he did not tor
ture the girl. After the crime he
drove to Flint and then to his home
in Owosso.
CONFESSES OTHER ATTACKS
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 17. {IP)—1The
possible bearing on the Hickman case
was dispelled when police said Hotel
ling confessed to similar attacks on
children over a period of years. Two
of these attacks occurred in Owosso,
one on a two year old child and the
other on an eight year old girl.
WOULD BAR SHOW
CHICAGO, Jan. 17. (£>)—Alfred Aus
tran, lawyer for Attorney €rowre, an
nounced steps will be taken to bar
the drama “The Racquet” from £he
Chicago stage if it is brought there.
The play involves fictitious collabo
ration between Chicago crooks and
Attorney of state.
100 CHOPPER" WINS
FROM BOSTON ED KEELET
NEW YORK, Jan. 17. (/P)—Paulino
Nzcudun, “The Basque Woodchopper,’
and one of the contenders for Gene
Turney’s heavyweight crown knock
ed out Ed Keeley, of Boston, in the
second round of a scheduled 10 round
bout staged in the new Broadway
arena.
PRESIDENT Of U. S.
BIDS GURODIEU
LEAVES MESSAGE OF GOOD WILL
AND INTERNATIONAL AMITY
HAVANA
I HAVANA, Jan. 17. (/P)—Cuba saic
| “bon voyage” to President Coolidgc
' and sent him back to his country wit!
| the memory of the greatest acclain
j ever paid in Havana to a visiting heac
of a foreign nation.
He steamed out into the ocean or
the cruiser Memphis bound for Key
west after having left a message o
good will and international amitj
| which was the first ever to have beei
i delivered in person by an America!
: executive on Latin American shores
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DUEL BLINDFOLDED
WARSAW, Jan. 17. {&)—Lieut. Jok
j iekhum, adherent of Premier Pilsud
j ski and Bronislaw Krozyanowski, Lit
jhuanian Nationalist, blindfolded them
selves and fought a pistol duel in j
room without a witness, both beini
seriously wounded.
WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTAL NOMINEE
, WILL BE CHOSEN IN 1928
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 17. (JP)—An interior view of the large oon
volition hall in Kansas- City, Mo., where the Republican Nations
Convention will be convened on the morning of June 12^1928;u;: c'n
SIDETRACK TAX BILL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. (IP)—The
Senate Finance Committee voted to
sidetrack the $290,000,000 tax reduc
tion hill until after March 15.
HOUSE AUTHORIZES
ISSUANCE SEWARD
BONDS FOR SCHOOL'
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. (IF)—'The’
House passed the Sutherland bill au-j
thorizing the town of Anchorage to
issue $100,000 in bonds for the con
struction and equipment of a school
building.
Seward was authorized to issue
$50,000 in school bonds for the erec
tion of a school building.
Permission for prospectors to hunt
I game in Mt. McKinley National Park
was revoked with the passage of the
Curry bill.
0EL8NEY HEWING PATH
TOWARDS THEY TITLE
j KAYOES MONTGOMERY
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[ | NEW YORK, Jan. 17. (/PWack
i Pelarey, contender for the heavy
. weight crown of Tunney, celebrated
the opening of his new campaign by
j knocking out “Sully” Montgomery,
! former Centre College football star,
t
- in the first 20 seconds of a sched
i
- uled 3 0 round bout in the St. Nich
-1 olas rink.
; DOCTOR IS INDICTED
J FDR MURDER OF WOMAN
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17. <;P)—The
county grand jury indicted Dr. -Chas.
McMiullan for the murder of Mrs.
Amelia Appleby -whose body was
found in a sack in the San Fernando
valley. Jewels belonging to Mrs. Ap
pleby and papers said to have been
hers was later found in Dr. McMul
len’s apartment.
WEbS ADOPTED DAUGHTER
NEW YORK, Jan. 17. (JP)—The en
gagement of E- W. Marland, wealthy
oil operator and Miss Lyde Millet
Roberts Marlands, his adopted daugh
ter was announced. Mr. Marland is
53 and Miss Marland 28.
ONE DEAD, FOUR HURT
LONDON, Jan. 17. </P)—One soldier
- was killed and four injured when a
1 motor lorry filled with munition over
c turned causing, an explosion.
SERIES OE FIRES
IN CAPITOL CITY
WORK “FIRE BUGS”
FIVE EXTRA ALARMS TURNED IN
DURING NIGHT AND EARLY
HOURS MORNING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. (ff)—Five
extra fire alarms, between a num
ber of minor ones and a few false
ones, threw the National Capitol into
a states of turmoil last night and early
today, led police to believe fire bugs
were at work.
The blazes, which began shortly be
fore midnight, continued until after
9 o’clock this morning and necessitat
ed bringing appratus from nearby
Virginia and Maryland towns to aid
the exhausted Washington crew.
Authorities are starting a wide
search for the suspects who are be
lieved to have deliberately set the
fires and turned in the false alarms
to divert the fire fighters. One sus
pect has been arrested.
VENEZUELA IS NEXT
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 17. (ZP)—The
, “Spirit of St Louis” is ready to ear
| ry Colonel Charles A. Linbergh to
| new adventures but the “Lone Eagle”
;v*hc is some 200 miles away from
here, and according to a telegram
from him, says he will return to the
I Canal Zone on Thursday but that tho
date of his departure for Venezuela,
| is still undetermined.
IFNRMER BOV BUNS IMV
WANTED STUDV AIRPLANES
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17. (ZP)—
William Taylor, a 15 year old farmer
boy, was found in San Francisco. He
i left his home in San Joaquin valley
: to come here in an effort to learn
aviation. He had no chance to study
flying on the farm he told police al
though mail planes flew over each
day.
LEIN ON DRESS SUIT
PARIS, Jan. 17. (IP)—Don Fernando
De Bourdon, cousin of the King of
Spain, has been hailed before authori
ties for attending a dance in his own
dress suit upon which the sheriff had
lien as a result of calling of a loan
which Don Fernando could not pay.