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Show i FOGGED TO CDHFESSIOH OF BRUTAL MURDER Andrew Strong Tells Officers Conscience Would Give Him No Peace. TACOMA, Wash.. Sept. 7. A special to the News say Andrew Strong, or Strom, has surrendered to the officials at Elma, confessing, ho was the mur-cloror mur-cloror of Frank Todd 'who "was struck down in his woodshed Saturday night, wlien he answered a knock at the door. Strong told. the city marshal ho could neither eat nor sleep since he performed per-formed the murder as he did. Strong was turned over to the sheriff sher-iff at Moutcsano and locked in a cell, He gave' the names of two men, who he says paid him $200 to kill Toddi The names of these men aro not yet made public. Todcl'K body was found in the wood-shod wood-shod Sunday morning at 5 o'clock by his wife, llis 'skull had been crushed in with a hatchet and his pockets rifled. The police had no clue until Strong's confcss-iou. |