Show BOYS CONFESS SLAYING EIGHT Inmates of Industrial School Admit Burning Man and Family to Death Deatha t a B Br Associated Press Tress GALLIPOLIS Ohio Jan 5 5 Sheriff Sherif Charles Swanson announced today that two inmates of ot the boys' boys industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial school at Lancaster confessed they made a funeral pyre last spring out of a GaU Gallia a county log cabin burning burning burn burn- ing eight persons to death Revenge was the motive Swanson Isaid said adding that the boys confessed because o of stricken c consciences are Alber Reymer of Gallipolis Gallipolis Gal Gal- and Elsworth Mowyer o of Bu Bu- Bu- Bu cyrus The cabin was occupied by James White 40 He and seven of his children died in the flames lames One Geor George e 12 12 escaped to the cabin the youths said they nailed up the doors and windo vS' J so there would be no esca escape e f for toi- r the victims The sheriff sheri said Reymer and Mowyer Mowyer Mowyer Mow Mow- yer admitted the crime to himself himsel and t to Assistant Superintendent Lamb when they visited the youths at the Institution Swanson vanson said Reymer and Mowyer were sentenced to Lancaster for automobile automobile au au- au- au theft and that they would be returned here for prosecution |