| Show AN IOWA GIRLS AWfUL RVENGE Prayed God For Strength to Slay John Kern DELILAH FALES MAKES A CONFESSION Murdered Her Lovers Father and Found Peace Her Victim Had Wronged Her and the PentUp Hatred of Years Found Vent In the Commission of the CrimeShot Him When Era Was On His Knees Waverly la Dec 8 Delilah Fales has confessed her share in the tragic death of John pern the man who was found dead in a lonely wood on the 23rd of last August The young woman confessed that she fired the bullets that killed him She was indicted today and it is said that her alleged accomplice accom-plice before the fact William Kern a son of the victim will be indicted tomorrow to-morrow When she was a mere child of 13 years she charges that the elder Kern betrayed her and that ever after he harassed her with his attentions More than that he sought by blackmailing her reputation she states to keep others trom paying court to her Twice before she became attached to the murdered mur-dered mans son she had been in a fairway fair-way to become happily married but as many times had Jerome Kern she declares de-clares poisoned her lovers against herAt her-At last when by the same method he sought to prevent his son from marrying mar-rying her the pentup hatred of years vented itself in the commission of the crime I killed him with premeditation and deliberation she said I prayed God to give me strength to do it with all the earnestness that I could command as I have prayed to him for forgiveness forgive-ness I have suffered no pangs of conscience con-science On the contrary a restful calm seemed to come into my life from the moment I knew he was dead I never slept so well as I did after the night I fired those fatal shots DELILAHS CONFESSION Miss Fales confession starts by telling tell-ing of the love affair of herself and young Kern and of the opposition of the father They discussed the question ques-tion of putting him out of the way and they agreed that that would be the best way out of the difficulties One day the elder Kern suggested to the young woman that she meet him Here was the opportunity that she had been waiting for and she assented making an cappoirment far the following morning in the woods near her home They met and he assisted her to alight from her vehicle r He was on his knees before me sh confessed I saw my chance to kill him I had the revolver just inside my coat which was buttoned up As he was kneeling there I pulled the revolver out and shot him in the chest He whirled around on his knees a little ways and as he fell forward I shot him in the right side of the back After the first shot he said Lile somethin dont know what I could not understand I dont know whether his clothes caught fire or not I hurried hur-ried away Then follows a detail of the plotting of the two to lay the crime at the door of John Lewis a former lover of Deli lah They even prepared a letter purporting pur-porting to have been written by the deceased de-ceased on the day of his murder and which was left where it would bG readily found as it was a few days ago This letter said that if harm cameo came-o Kern Lewis must be held respon siWp William Kerns confession corroborates corrobo-rates that of Miss Fales in almost ever detail |
