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Show PROVO YOUTH , REPUDIATES CONFESSION Admission Was Forced From Him, Giles Insists; Officers Offi-cers Scoff ,at Youth's Intimation In-timation of Third Degree Sullen and truculent in his demeanor toward his questioners, question-ers, Truman . Giles, 17, confessed con-fessed slayer of night watchman watch-man Joseph E. Wilkins, remains re-mains in his cell in the Utah county jail following his repudiation re-pudiation of his confession, written and signed in Salt Lake by himself, Friday after a severe and long drawn out grilling. Giving way at times to fits of anger, when confronted by the testimony of Alpheus Mossman, 17, the youth Saturday uttered dire threats upon his erstwhile partner in lawlessness, for turning informant inform-ant upon the gang. Through it all hi insists with a dogged determination determin-ation that the confession wrung from him at Salt Lake a lie. Wanted Them to Shut Vp "I wrote that confession because I wanted to see my mother, and the officers insisted that I would not be allowed to see her unless I came th..iugh," he declared, Saturday, when questioned by Sheriff J. D. Boyd. "Those fellows kept after me continually until I was nearly crazy and I decided to write out what I knew they wanted me to say just to get them to shut up," he went en. When the sheriff explained to him that finger prints obtained the morning after the gruesome crime from the glass top of a showcase j ir. the hardware department at the Spanish Fcrk Coop, corresponded Tith his own he winced perceptibly and declared with a forcer air of bravado that "I know something about fingerprints too." According to Sheriff Boyd a new set of impressions from his finger prints was taken Saturday, by Deputy ShHff S. A. Willis, of the thiee middle fingers of Giles. These will be sent to Salt Lake where this and the prints from Spanish Fork vill be enlarged so that anyone may be able to see plainly the likeness between thpm. Third Degree Denied Charges vhat third degree meth- i ous were used in obtaining his confession, con-fession, however, were denied by Sheriff Clifford Patten, who declared declar-ed that sui'.h charges were without foundation. "I, personally, warned the boy," ?:iid tl:e sheriff, "that if ;ny questions I wtij? goir.j; to ask ; wore such that hv did not care tn answer them, he had merely to say so. The confession itself was obtained ob-tained by Francis A. Child, superintendent super-intendent of the State Industrial tchool, who could hardly be charged charg-ed with the employment of brutal or third degree methods." "You may say for me that I personally per-sonally supervised the questioning of Giles, as well as Alpheus Moss-man, Moss-man, his associate in the crime, and that no methods not approved by me were used 10 seenrr the confession. confes-sion. The r . pu.li.it ion is only won I might have b.eii t xpccU d from i.uch a source." The confession broke suddenly Friday afternoon after officers had worked for several days unraveling a dozen or more auto thefts in which Mossman and Giles were implicated. im-plicated. Although Mossman's story at first was contradictory at nearly near-ly every turn, enough parallel facts were brought out that officers decided de-cided they had hit upon a "hot trail." Child Gets Confession Severe questioning of Giles and Mossman Thursday and Friday failed fail-ed to produce a confession of actual act-ual guilt, and it was only when Supt. Child, of Ogden, after a conference con-ference with Sheriff Clifford Patten, Pat-ten, took over the questioning of the youths that the real information informa-tion was forthcoming. Within an hour, Child had secured an oral confession from Mossman which accused Giles of the actual murder. Shortly after, Giles broke down ana wrote the confession which follows: fol-lows: "I, Freeman Giles, Alpheus Mossman, Moss-man, and Bill Cavell stole a car in Provo and went to Spanish Fork with the car just for a joyride, and we ran out of gas and sold a jack for some gas, and then we wanted some money, so seen the Western Co-op and we decided to get some stuff out of that place. So we went l around to the back and tried the back windows and they were lock- ed. So we forced the back door in and went over and got something to eat and then we started to look for some money and while doing so we waked the nightwatchman. And while I was looking around the nightwatchman asked who we was and we did not answer him. And then he seen us and he backed me up in a corner but before he said 'Stop or I will shoot,' and after he got me in the corner, he started to holler for the police and it got me afraid that I would be caught. "Shot To Stop Him" "So I shot to get him to stop so I could make my get-away. But the bullet hit him and he staggered and fell and I started to get out, but stopped and came back and raised his head and put a piece of cloth under his head and got his own coat and put over him. and then left, and went out and got in fb-ear fb-ear nnd broke nil p.'.J to t lawny from S;mi.;ii Fork and win I to Provo H f 1 1 i c! i the u !-! two guys in the car and told l would meet them in Salt Lake. And then I went and got on a freight train and came to Salt Lake. But t left both guns with the car, for t did not want them on me if I was aught. Bill, he got the gun from one of his friends here in town. It was a 30-30 make, according to what Bill said. (Signed) "TRUMAN LEON GILES " |