Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-03 | Page 1 | Kidnaper Slays Girl

T I T or T T T a T a. a K dna er Slays VICTIM SHOT TO DEATH IN FIGHT WITH tA ABDUCTOR Man Wrests Gun From Her Hel After Being Seriously Wounded by Bullet THREATENED M MOT MOTHER 0 T I H E F Witnesses Describe Fata Fatal Affair WINONA WI ONAl Minis Minn- June 3 Associated ed Press An An attempted of or Evelyn Brown 15 Beaver Dam Wis Vis ended today when her alleged abductor Roy Ashley also of Beaver BeaverDam Dam shot hot and killed her after being being be be- ing ing- wounded probably fatally by his ils victim Members of a It farmers farmer's family who witnessed the affair said they stepped from a small automobile and 1 began arguing They said the girl 1 pointed a gun at Ashley and fired tired Though wounded in the abdomen he ic wrested the gun from her shot her ler through the head and crumpled to the road Mrs Lillian Brown Bro the girls girl's mother reported the to the hc authorities in their home in Beaver Dam She t told ld Chief of Police George Groling that Ashley appeared at her home last midnight She heard him himas as 05 he crept into the house she said and when she attempted to turn on ona ona ona a light he threatened t to shoot her herand herand and arid then smashed the thc light bulb He asked to see ee the girl Mrs Brown said Upon UOn being told she had gone to Fond Du Lac with friends he sat down and waited Mrs Brown said aid he told her he would shoot her if it she attempted to call caU aid After Afur the girl returned he asked her to go riding with him for about an m hour The girl consented to go Before they left let the house Ashley smashed the telephone Mrs Brown told Chief Groling Ashley was taken to a hospital where he was prohibited from talk talk- ing lug He was weak from loss of ot blood Ashley rallied later in the day District District District Dis Dis- Attorney Alfred Burkhardt and Sheriff Douglas Brown announced he confessed the admitting he tie got the gun from the home of a friend la last t night and went to the Brown home where he had lived eight years cars His story agreed with that told Beaver Dam authorities by the girls girl's mother the district attorney said