Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-10 | Page 1 | Boy Confesses Murdering School Teacher

9 Boy OY Confesses Murdering School Teacher ISDN Ui Of JANITOR I ADMiTS BEATING WOMAN OAN TO 10 DEATH Y Youth Beats Teacher to Death Just to Get Even HARBORED GRUDGE Police Release Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweet Sweet- heart of Victim STANTON Mich Dec Dee 10 United United United Unit- Unit ed Press Press For For three years Jimmy Deacon harbored a grudge against his teacher Flossie Carter for slapping him for throwing p paper pr wads in school Friday night he ho got even by inducing her to drive him into a secluded spot in the country where he hammered her herto herto herto to death with a rock he said in a confession to the today Regarded as a good Sunday school boy Deacons Deacon's confession conCession amazed the tho little town of ot Sheridan where he and Miss Carter lived His father was janitor of ot the Sheridan Sheridan Sheridan Sheri Sheri- dan high school and the year 15 old boy sometimes helped him Inthe in inthe inthe the school Weeping the boy told how he sat satIn satin satin in school day after day and contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- revenge CONCEIVES PLAN On Friday afternoon the idea cam came cameto to him and h he decided he told County Coun oun- oun ty Prosecutor D. D Hale Brake Drake that th the as S j r H He went to Miss Cartet asked her f t she would drive him down to look at some traps u-aps he had set She agreed to accompany him The car went dead as Miss Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter drove down into the woods in which the traps were set Deacon said and he gripped d her by the the neck and strangled her into I Jimmy said he got out of ot the car i found a rock roel at nt the roadside and pounded the girls girl's head Then h he pushed the tho car a quarter of ot a mile down the hill he ho said and left it When he went home he went into the woodshed threw his blood cov ered overalls behind the tool chest chestand chestand chestand and went into the house he told the prosecutor He denied that he attacked Miss Carter MAY PLEAD GUILTY The boy will be arraigned in probate probate probate pro pro- bate court this afternoon He will wUl then be released release from probate court and turned over to circuit court where he is expected to plead guilty to the murder Circuit court is in session now nov Prosecutor Brake said the boy probably would be be- besent sent to Jail for life Lee Leo Bracy year old Olivet cOllege college col cOl- cOl- cOl lege loge student who was nas Miss Carters Carter's Carters Carter's Carters Carter's Car Car- ter's sweetheart was was rele released d from custody as soon as ns Deacon con con- Miss Carters Carter's bod body beaten and stripped of clothing was found yesterday In her small coupe on a lonely side road near here by Roy Collier Comer 14 a hiker A suicide note found beside the young womans woman's body wa was wag said Bald by police to be a n. forgery a crude attempt on the part of t the slayer to avert suspicion The note scra scrawled VIed in pen pencil Jl upon the back of ot an envelope read I I did this myself Dont blame blome anyone else It was signed Miss Carter Miss Carter d 11 r grandfather grand granil- father r Fred LInderman Her Tier m mp- mp thor ther Mrs Clara Clarn Hubbell resides at Sidney three miles distant