Show LUNCH CAR COOK ADMITS ADITS KILLING PHILADELPHIA Sept 30 UP IDA p- p pA A legal trial that could lead to the he electric chair began Monday for or a year old short-order short cook vho vho admitted police say that he took ook attractive Mrs Ethel Atkins to o a vacant farmhouse 20 miles from Tom the city and bludgeoned her herto herto herto to death in a liquor inflamed rage Mrs Atkins Atkins' body nude and battered pattered was found late last Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day in an old dwelling at Horsham Montgomery county Wife of a Philadelphia bricklayer and mother of twin sons she was related by bya a former marriage to the Duke tobacco family of North Carolina Early Sunday Police Pollee Captain William C. C Engle said William J. J Ernest signed a statement that he killed Mrs Atkins after accompanying accompanying accompanying her on a round of PhIladelphia Philadelphia Phila PhIla- delphia taprooms Police Pollee arranged to turn Earnest chunky blond counter man in a lunch wagon over to Montgomery county officials Monday after a hearing on technical charges of being a fugitive from justice The statement Engle attributed to Earnest said that Mrs Atkins removed her clothes as soon as we got in the farmhouse There was a party in a second floor bedroom bedroom bed- bed room room oom the police captain said Earnest Earnest Ear Ear- nest hest nest told him and then a fierce quarrel I cursed and lost my head Engle quoted the cook She grabbed a curtain rod and tried to x strike me with it and I grabbed it t from her and hit her over the head lead Then I went home and I was dog |