Show CONFESSES MURDER OF SOPHIA SINGER Kramer Breaks Down Under Silent Treatment of Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Police Captain Chicago Nov No 2 Broken Broken h by hours of ot silent treatment the humane but effective ef effective effective ef- ef third degree devised by Capt Max of the Chicago police Charles N. N Kramer confessed this afternoon afternoon after after- noon that he ho killed Sophia Singer Sins the time Baltimore heiress found murdered d here lere Monday night Kramer known generally b by his stage e name of Conway In the final confession added a new feature to the tho statement given yesterday by his hla wife He said ho Struck Miss Us Singer Sing down In self solf defense when she attacked him with a razor after ho had hall rebuked her herfor herfor for making a suggestion to Mrs Kramer to go out and meet some soma men Kramer exonerated his wife from all blame In connection with the crime Kramer ramer the former clown high diver er and circus acrobat held out twenty twenty- four hours longer than his wife Ho lie paced his cell coll all night begging for a a. word tord from the thc turnkeys who not vouchsafe him a Ho lIo heard his wife's agonized d cries when hen she ma made mado o her confession yesterday but could get no Information as to their cause or what she was saying Today Captain began an a a. systematic nagging of the man that aggravated his silence Several times an hour he would pass the time cell and would pause a II second to sa say Well cU do you ou want to see sec me Kramer ramer each ench time refused but at last broke broko Into tears and begged begge to be allowed allowed al allowed al- al i lowed to tell teU his story Kramers Kramer's star story differed from his wife's only In the detail that ho lie claimed self defense In Justification He Heald said ald ho he never nC meant to kill Miss Singer Sing Sing- er or and that he ie bound and gagged herto her hor herto horto to prevent her making an outcry He lie said he took 35 from Miss Singers Singer's purse and an two suits snits of clothes belonging belong belong- In ing to W. W R. R Worthen orthen Miss lIss Singers Singer's ers er's friend because he was penniless and needed clothes to go goo out In He and his i wife vie tIed led through the alley he said I hoping hoping- to get et awn away before belore Miss 1155 Singer revived and that she ho would not want to come Into publicity b by prosecuting them |