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Show GREEN IS ITH7 BOfllCjUIITS Confessed Murderer of Velma Adkins Assumes Burden of Guilt. Planned Winning Back Love of Own Wife With Money From Insurance. "I am John Green and there was no one else but me implicated in the murder of Velma Green," confessed John Borich last niht. 'Tie is charged with the murder 01 Velma Adkins, also known as Velma Green, Tuesday night in a field about a mile and a half from Tooele. Last nlyht, after being taken to Tooele by Sheriff D. "M. Adamson, Borich said, "If you will drive me to the place where I killed her I will find the insurance policy for you." Throughout yesterday Borich asserted that he had committed the crime at the instigation of a man named John Green, who lie supposed was the husband of the murdered woman, and that he had been ".promised haif of the $-1000 Insurance on the life of his victim. Burk'h contended that he met Mr. and SWs. John Green at Liberty park about six months ago and that the husband persuaded him to go with his wife and Lake out an insurance policy. This, he Huld, he did. As .Mr. and M.rs. John Green, Borich und Velma Adkins went to the office of .he Kquitable Life Insurance company mi July and took out a policy of S-1000, due in ease 01 the accidental death of the woman. The policy was made out as payable to John Green. Policy Is Unearthed. The original policy, for which the officials offi-cials had been searching, was unearthed from a hole in the ground In a vacant lot between the "old and new towns of Tooele. With the document were found a number of letters and telegrams which had been exriinnged between the couple w'nil- the woman was in Twin Falls. One of the telegrams sent by Borich told ner to come to Salt Lake on Friday, September Septem-ber U', and sent directions as to where they would meet, and that they both must be known as Mr. and Mrs. John Green. Complaint was filed yesterday with the county attorney of Tooele county by Sheriff Adamson charging Borich with first-degree murder, and the preliminary hearing has been set for September 26. Borich will be held In the county jail at Tooele, pending the trial. Fred C. Adkins, husband of the murdered woman, who came to Salt Lake on Thursday from his home in Twin Falls, decided to bury his wife In Tooele. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. Coat Blood-splashed. The coat worn by Borich on the night of the inurder and which is spotted with blood was sent to State Chemist Herman H. Harms yesterday in order that an analysis of the blood might be made. The two men In the life of Velma Adkins sat and faced each other in the Tooele county jail yesterday. The husband was grieved with the knowledge that his wife, the mother of his two children, had been unfaithful to him. The lover admitted that he kiiled the woman in order to obtain ob-tain etnough money to win back his own wife, whom he loved, and who was suing i.im for divorce because he had failed, iie said, to support her. Tiie husband, a bier, slow thinking, laboring la-boring man, was dazed. He said he could not understand that Velma had come down here tu see Borich, whom he had i never heard about before, "She left j home last Friday, and I understood that she intei'ded visiting with her sister Jn Hurley, Idaho," he said. "1 loved her. and thought she loved mf-. I gave her everything I could, and 1 thought she was happy.'" "She went to vbsi t her sister while I fuund a house, because we were compelled com-pelled to vacate the one in which we were living. I had no idea she was in Salt Lake until I had the message saying that -ho was dead.'' Borich Loved Own Wife. "1 never bve:l Velma." said Borich. "I only loved my wife, and would do any-1 any-1 h.ing to win her back to me. I waiked .low 11 the road with Velma from Tooele n he nignt I killed her, and we went :::io the field and talked. I do not know ow 1 knocked her down. I don't think 1 hit her. Her throat was soft and my fingers wen: clear around and touched in ;he ba-'k, a.nd then I squeezed until she stopoeu gurgling. She kept saying, "Oh, .bjhn. don't! Don't. John!'' According to Sherhf Adarrson. Boric:: had inquired of insurance men about the amount of iusiiraiice that could be taken out on tho lives of children, and Sheriff Adamson believe Borich eon tern plated billing the two Adkins babies, Maxine, G veais of age, and liussell, :i years of age. The amount of money obtainable on the :!v-s of children, it is thought by the T-joe'.e sheriff, was not large enough to tempt him to lake their- lives. Maxhie and 11uhs.-1I Adkins will he taken to Twin Kails, where they will live with th'-'r ;:r;i nd Barents, the mother and the H'.e:father uf the deal woman, accord -i'.u to their father. The insurance rompan v officers. Ad -l-.his said, told him that t:y would pay the amount of the polh-v on the life of rhe HMtiu-r 10 the rhdldren. |