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Show 'Model Youth' Held For Girl Murder BUFFALO, March 31 llt.l!) A "model vouth," who quit school to care for his widowed mother who never drank nor smoked and who preferred to sav at home rather than go out with girls, was 1 charged today with slaying 18- I year-old Mary Ellen Babcock. Police said Thomas Smith, 18. signed a confession that he stubbed stub-bed and beat the girl to death because of an "uncontrollable impulse im-pulse that comes over me once in a while." He denied that he I criminally assaulted her. |