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Show CONFESSES TO HAVING KILLED HIS IE HERE Chicago Police Obtain an Admission Which Explains Ex-plains Crime in Salt Lake. MURDER COMMITTED NEAR COUNTY JAIL Local Police Investigating Story Told by Howard De Weese, Who Has Several Aliases. Special to The Tribune. CHICAGO, Dec. 9. Howard De Weese confessed heTe today that he murdered his wife iu Salt Lake City, They lived two doors from the county jail. Mrs. De Wecse was killed September 20, last, and was buried obscurely. De Weese now'' I says he killed her for $10,000 worth of diamonds. Confessing to the murder of a woman who he said "was his wife and was formerly Mrs. Fannie Fisher of New York, at 455 V-i Second East street, Salt Lake, in September, a man giving the name of Howard, De Weese last night walked into the police headquarters at Chicago and surrendered, according to a dispatch received in this city last night. Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives, upon receiving the report, immediately detailed two officers to go to Chicago last night to bring the man back here for trial. Killed n September, The woman was killed either on the night of Thursday, September 21, or the morning of Friday, September 22. A man giving the name of D. C. Rob-bins Rob-bins engaged housekeeping rooms at the address, 455 Mi Second East street, from Mrs. Hat tie A. Anderson, proprietor pro-prietor of the building, which is di-. vided into four apartments. He paid a week's room rent in advance and said that if conditions warranted he would open a branch office here for a chemical company which he said he represented. rep-resented. A man was seen leaving the apartment apart-ment early on the morning of Friday, September 22, .by Mrs. Edward Paulson, who, with her family, occupies an apartment apart-ment in the building. The body of the woman was discovered Sunday, September Septem-ber 24. Her head had been battered in by a flat iron and her face was crushed beyond recognition. Suspicion attached to the man who rented a room with her, but despite a vigilant search by officers under Sheriff John S. Cor-less, Cor-less, J. Parley White, chief of police, and Joseph C. Sharp, chief of detectives, detec-tives, he was never located. Says He Is Burglar. There were some rings and other jewelry found upon the woman, hut Chief White said that they were of small value. After holding the body for about a week it was given pauper burial. The place where the murder was committed com-mitted is only two doors away from the county jail. De Weese so described its location in the confession that he made to the Chicago police. When De Wecse first appeared before be-fore Charles L. Larkin, chief of detectives detec-tives at Chicago, yesterday, he said that he wished to clear hinlselr of the suspicion sus-picion of having murdered his wife by confessing to having committed numerous numer-ous burglaries in Salt Lake. He said that he returned to the apartments after aft-er robbing a house about September 20 and found his wife lying dead on the bed with her head crushed. Dc Weese said that he fled from this city because he feared that his record as a former convict would prevent his clearing himself of the murder charge. He said that he would return to Salt Lake and stand trial on the burglary charge in order to prove an alibi in the murder case. Makes a Confession. Later, according to report. De Weese confessed to the murder-of the woman. He said that under the name of C. D. Robbins he had been employed in a haberdashery store at 1 0 Second avenue av-enue in New York City and in November. Novem-ber. 1915, had eloped" to Reno, Nev., with Mrs. Harrv Fisher, the wife of the proprietor. !Mrs. Fisher obtained a divorce in Reno in August, 1916. he said, and a tew davg later she and De Weese were married there. De Weese said that the marriage at Reno was performed bv a justice of the peace and that Chief of Police Hill-house Hill-house and Deputy sheriff Woods were witnesses. He and Mrs. De Weese traveled trav-eled through the west, he said, for several sev-eral months, during which time he committed com-mitted many .burglaries, the proceeds of which he converted into jewels which he presented her. These jewels, said to be worth $10,000, were taken bv De Weese, according to one report, but according ac-cording to the report of the Associated Press. De Weese returned to his home .(Continued, on Page Twenty-six.). CONFESSES KILLING WIFE 1 SILT LAKE (Continued from Page One.) on the morning of the murder, found bis wife dead, her head crushed and the diamonds and jewels missing. De Weese declined to tell the Chicago police where he committed the burglary at the time that his wife was murdered, but he said that when he gave the name of the owner of the house where the burglary was committed there' would be no doubt but that he was absent from the housekeeping rooms when his wife was beaten to death. Praises Himself. "The one thing to my credit," he said, "was that I never robbed poor, people, but always went to the homes of i the rich and those who could afford to , lose their money and jewels. ' In his confession to the Chicago po-! lice, De Weese saj.. that he was a col l lege graduate, but declined to give the name of the college or to reveal anv of , his family connections. He admitted; that he had been sentenced to the Jef-, fersonville, Ind., reformatory for from ! two to fourteen years for burglary,1 April 22, 1011, after having been ar-; rested at Fort Wayne. He said that i after having served three years he was I paroled and went to New York, where he met Mrs. Fisher. The Chicago report re-port states that the man's picture and police record and moles on his left wrist and right forearm identified him poflitivoW as De Weese, alias De Weez, alias .Tofen Martin, alias John Norton, alias Crozier. Believed to Be Guilty. Following the murder the local police made every effort to establish the identity iden-tity of the murdered woman. H was discovered that a comb in her hair had been bought in San Francisco and that she had had dental work done there, the particular make of the bridge of the teeth establishing the fact. The police po-lice were, however, unable to locate the dentist who did the work, while inquiries in-quiries in Sau Francisco failed to determine de-termine tho name of the woman from the store where the comb was sold, for no record was made of the sale. Chief Sharp said last night that the description which DeWeese had furnished fur-nished of the house and the 6tory regarding re-garding the woman's death, lent support sup-port to the belief that DeWeese was the man who had .committed the murder. mur-der. DeWeese admitted he rented the rooms here under the name of D. C. bobbins. De Weese said he had lived in St. Louis, Cleveland and other cities before be-fore reaching Chicago, where he had decided to give himself up. |