Show FATE Of SCHOOL HOOl BOMBER HANGS ON LOVE Of GIRL If Sweetheart Forgives He Will Dodge Prosecution S tion on One Charge VICTIM NEAR DEATH I Doctors rs Fear Infection May Set In OTTAWA Ill III Dec 3 AP On AP-On On the love of th the girl school teacher he sought to kill kill with dynamite largely hangs the fate of young Hiram Hi Hiram ram Reed son of a prosperous Dana III Ill farmer Sitting in his cell cen in the county jail jaU here today he placidly discussed his prospects while th the sweetheart he confessed attempting to nut ut out of or the way by placing explosive in inthe the school house stove fought for her life ife at the home of or her sister nearby Physicians said year old lola Bradford might recover if it infection did not begin in some of ot the countless countless count count- less less- small wounds about her body made by the tiny pieces s of or the iron stove when it burst But the iron was a t n t E chances 1 s of S on lOt ea i CALLS IN DELIRIUM Miss Bradford about to become a a. mother does not connect the young farmer with the explosion that mangled mangled man man- her In her moments of or delirium delirium ium lum she calls cans for him Reed was told by States State's Attorney Hanson that if U the girl forgave him he would not be he prosecuted on the charge of injuring her It was this promise that resulted in his cool confession and story of how he broke i into the building buildings placed the dynamite dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- I mite in the flue flueS attached the caps and ran the fuse to the firewood so it would be be- touched off when the girl lit the fire Ire in the morning Ev Even n though she decides to marry marry marry mar mar- ry him there still stin remains the bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing charge which Incensed farmers insist will bp pushed Only one child accompanied Miss Bradford into the building as she prepared to light the stove a little girl and sh she escaped injury The fact that the teacher was kne kneeling probably saved her from being de decapitated decapitated decapitated de- de by the top of the stove as it was blown off oft you have a thought for the fifty innocent children in the school the states state's attorney asked young Reed who said the girl In- In Continued on page 3 FATE OF SCHOOL BOMBER HANGS ON LOVE OF GIRL Continued from page 1 1 1 silted on a 0 wedding but he was not ready eady to take on the responsibilities of f matrimony Well Ven no what what's the difference None one of the kids were hurt he re replied re- re plied As for lola Iola when she gets gets' well ell she vv wilt feel all tight fight about it She is crazy about me and land will be willing to marry rry me still still Miss Bradford Is Ig the daughter of a retired minister at at Chillicothe the Ill 11 1 SHOWS REMORSE Reeds Reed s first show of remorse came I as he was being led from the court where the hearing wa was held I 1 ought to be shot he excl exclaimed He lIe told was the states state's attorney the girl b became came insistent on marriage about bout two wo weeks ago So So I I. I agreed grEed he lIe said we we would be bo married Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day dayI I I told her I bought a a. ring in Pe- Pe oria orla I had bought something in Peoria Peolia dynamite I h had d been planning planning planning plan plan- ning some means of getting rid lid of her for two months Im I'm a a. young fellow and didn't want to be tied down by marriage He is 24 years ears old |