Show c = MURDERERS CONFESSION Iowa Parricide Implicates His Sweetheart Sweet-heart I the Deed Waterloo Ia Dec William Kern under arrest here for the murder of his father Jerome Kern has made a confession in which he implicates his sweetheart Delilah Falses Kerns parents par-ents opposed his marriage to the young woman and he states that she plotted the killing of both his parents and prevailed pre-vailed upon him to attempt the carrying carry-ing out of her plot that they might acquire possession of the familys little farm and live there together Jerome Kern was lured by the son into the woods and there deliberately the girl shot him The dead mans clothing was then saturated with oil and set on fire the object being to conceal the manner of his death I Kern was scared into his confession I by detectives who haunted him in the I I guise of a ghost of his father He also confessed that the murder of his mother was to have been accomplished at a later date |