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Show ? FATHER CONFESSES TO MURDER OF INFANT .u SANTA ROSA, Cnl., Jan. 24. Con- 4' fesslng to the murder of his Infant ! I child, whose body was found in a ! creek near here, Saturday, with its ! throat cut. Wlllard E. Thoma3: u la-borer la-borer and singer in u local church choir, was locked In a cell hi tho county Jail today. According to the :-- authorities, the prisoner implicates I his wife, who maintains that she Is J- Innocent of uny part In the crime. ! 4- The child was born several days J after the marriage of Its parents. Thomas, according to the police, ad-4 ad-4 mlt3 having committed the deed In -1-J tho hope of saving himself nnd his J i- wife from disgrace The Jugular voln j of tho baby was severed. -. |