Show I I CONFESSiON C mN OF f fD D BOMBER REED OTTA OTTAWA WA Ill HI March l 1 lAP lAP- AP Confession No I 1 in which Hiram Reed admitted dynamiting the Pleas Pleasant nt Valley sch schoolhouse was exhibit today by the offered d as an n state In its fight to convict the young farmer on an a a. bombing bo charge S The The prosecution won a a. lay day fight when Judge Frank Franic Hayes ruled Reeds Reed's three c. c confessions were all admissible In ha the confession offered to today a Hiram m told of go going ng to see lola Iola Bradford Brad rd young teacher who vho ho was severely injured by the explosion of ot her school stove the night of November 30 lola Iala was Iving living w with th her sister Mrs Howard Howar CJ gg Outside in my car I had a a. stick sUck and a a. half bait of dynamite which I In Intended intended in- in tended to place in the tho stove of the schoolhouse where she teaches said Hiram m in the confession This school is about a 3 half laif block from where she lives When I left lola Jola I w went nt to the and broke broke- In- In Inthe the front fr nt door with a screwdriver I had the dynamite wrapped In a paper I 1 had a fuse about ten long and a dynamite cap attached to the dynamite I tied the dynamite dna dyna mite to the top of or the stove on the outside with a pl piece e of string I intended that th-at the tile dynamite would explode when the Ire fire vas was started I by lola Iola the next morning After placing the the dynamite dyn mite in inthe Inthe inthe the stove I went homeI home I 1 1 knew lola Iola was expecting to be become become be- be cornea come a a. mother and that Iwas Ivas I was re- re for her condition I planned on putting the dynamite Inthe fn In the stove a a. couple of ot days s sago ago I went wOnt to the home of ot lola Iola last Wednesday for the purpose of putting putI putting put put- ting dynamite In Ia the stove of her I schoolroom I knew she was the time theone one orie that started the fire in n that stove each morning The only promise made to me by the states state's attorney Is if it lola Iola Bradord Bradford Bradford Brad Brad- I ford ord marries me before the next grand Jury meets this f. f statement will not be used against me in Ia any any charge affecting her hei- If It she does not marry me this statement may be used against me At the bottom of each page of the confession in the handwriting of the he states state's attorney were Hiram's ms m's initials In his writing The side of each page bore his signature Joseph Ward Vard a highway policeman policeman police police- man roan testified that Reed told him he ho had never Intended to marry lola Ioia |