Show OGDEN DEPARTMENT A VILE WRETCH He Confesses Guilt hi Debauching a Little Girl Jack Plunimer nov In custody in the city Jail Is by his own confession a mon stei of tho vilest and most depraved type lie has been guilty of repeated outrages upon the person of little Mary Agnes Neas not yet 11 years of age And this too while he posed as the friend of the father and protector of the child The girls mother Is dead and her father A L Ncas camo to Ogden from Kcmmcrer Wyo about thrco months ago They roomed with Mrs Elizabeth Read In time rear of 2C2 Twentythird street NeaB became be-came seriously ill and was taken to tho hospital Plummor had been acquainted with Noas In Kommcrcr nful his pretended pretend-ed friendship for tho family caused his frequent presence at the house to be regarded re-garded with less suspicion than It would have been otherwise Plummcrs record In Evanston la a shady one and ho has moro than once been suspected of limo crime to which ho has now confessed lira Read and others who observed his actions thought all was not right and ho was shadowed by the officers On Saturday night the girls room was discovered dis-covered to bo In llamcs the bedding having hav-ing been thoroughly soaked with coal oil Fortunately tho little girl had gone to a neighbors to spend the night or murder would doubtless have been added to his crime Plummor was seen hanging around the place during the evening and was taken Into custody by Officer Tout Sunday evening Chief Conllsk and Detective Ponder In terviewed the girl She told them lime whole terrible story how Plummor hud taken her to limo Springs to Glenwood to secluded spotii along the river during limo past three months and each time had accomplished his fiendish purpose When first arrested Plummer stoutlv protested pro-tested his Innocence but when confronted confront-ed yesterday forenoon with the girls story broke down and admitted his guilt lie claims to havo been drunk on the night of the lire and says that ho can give no reason for being around the place lie says thai If there was a fire ho knew nothing of It and that he had no motive for destroying the child Time officers are confident that ho Is guilty of both crimes and that lio will yet admit his connection with the attempt to tako limo childs life Plummer Is about 10 years of age and Is a plasterer by trade Pie Is a man of a low order ot Intelligence and apparently appar-ently docs not realize the serious position In which ho Is placed The girl Is largo for her years and exceptionally bright She stated to Detective Ponder that Plummer had never threatened her with bodily Injury but had cautioned her not to tell any ono of their relations The detective had PRimmer under examination ex-amination late yesterday afternoon and he admitted his being at the house on Saturday night about the tlmo the fire occurred but said that ho could not have desired to kill time girl aa ho knew she was not In her room that night The accused will be placed In close confinement con-finement and every effort made by the officers to secure a full confession from him as there IH no reasonable doubt that ime Is guilty of arson as well as the crime to which ho has already confessed Information against Plummer was filed with Justice Breeden yesterday afternoon and he will have his preliminary hearing is soon as tIme officers secure tho ovl dcnco they desire |