Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-11 | Page 3 | Young Slayer Kills Self as Police Arrive

r yOUNG SLAYER SlA YER t KILLS SELF AS POLICE ARRIVE rs Relative Implicates Youth in Brutal Murder of His Wife ruu 8 fly WOOSTER Ohio May 11 The W-The suicide Jade of a old youth routh shortly I fx m in a relatives relative's implicated was he i Cession confession of murder provided a n ar I r startle climax early today to an in j in-j I r of the slaying of ot the I tives wife The accused youth Harold Harod Young o. o shotgun charge Into his head fired a officers arrived arrive at his hs home homer just as S r sear rear here to arrest him His Ills death than an hour after Herbert less came mc n R Wayne county farmer larmer 1 YounK as IS the actual slayer of or wile Sheriff Sheri John Stevens of Holmes I Ij I county county said Meeker also implicated ted j of Meekers Meeker's The nude body young oung wife tufe Gertrude was found Monday i morning ll lying ing in a creek near Millers Millers- bu burg She had been killed by blows head nn S on 01 the AUTO DISCOVER About a mile mUe away way I officers found lound the husbands husband's automobile with blood on the running board wrecked against a I tree Search of the Meeker home shirt shirl later uncovered a stained blood-stained With this evidence Holmes county I officers subjected Meeker to questioning ques ques- ti ni but he denied any knowledge of ot the killing until early today when he confessed Sheriff Sherif Stevens said Meeker related ted that the two men and the woman were riding in Meekers Meeker's automobile when Young struck Mrs Meeker with a l tire lire pump Subsequent blows killed her and the two men then attempting attempt attempt- in jog ing to cover up the crime sent the automobile hurtling down the road to make it appear the woman had been killed in m an acci- acci acci- acci dent I Immedi Immediately tely nfl after r obtaining the I confession Sheriff Stevens and Sheriff Sher Sher- iff ill Clark Shearer of Wayne county count went rent to Youngs Young's home to arrest him They were breaking through a locked door when they heard a shotgun fired tired and a moment later Inter found Youngs Young's body with a fatal tatal wound In the head HELD IN JAIL Meeker was held in the Holmes county jail at Millersburg pending the filing of charges Young and Meeker were close friends and were related by the mar- mar of Youngs Young's brother to Meekers Meeker s sister The only motive advanced ad for lor the killing of Mrs Meeker in her husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's alleged confession was that she was not welcome at his home Meeker and his wife had been separated separated separated sep sep- several months but she had returned to live with him a few hours before she was slain Young was al alleged alleged al- al to have participated in the killing killing kill kiU- ing out of friendship for lor Meeker