Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-13 | Page 1 | Husband Admits He Killed Wife after Quarrel

I HUSBAND ADM ITS lIS Hf HE KILLED WIFE AfUR Perfect Crime Is Solved by Reported Confession of Ohio Salesman WERE PROMINENT Nt IN SOCIAL eL 1 j Said to Have Rese Resented ted I Fact That Mate Outdid I Him in Number of Sales TROY TROT O 0 March 13 AP AP Ohio's Ohio's perfect crime has been solved and today Jacob C. C Nesbitt is in Jail here awaiting trial for the murder of his pretty and accomplished wife Frances rances a former Ohio State uniVersity university university uni uni- swimming and tennis star Three weeks from the day Nesbitt reported finding the body of his wife In the bathroom of ot their home from her skull fractured he was taken to the scene of the crime and after a fhe five hour ho r grilling confessed he killed her after a quarrel over business affairs They both sold kitchen appliances and she twitted him because of her ability to sell more than heI heI he I I slapped her when she said my folks were illiterate he declared Then er e everything went red and I 1 Ido Ido do clo not remember what happened A pair of blue pajamas constituted ed the principal link in the chain of evidence forged around Nesbitt These were missing from the home after the mm murder der asserted he did not know where they were Mr 1 and Mrs Prentiss Brown however ho friends of ot Nesbitt's 1 who remained at the Nesbitt home the Wednesday evening preceding the crime said eald Nesbitt had the pajamas on that night Nesbitt asserted he did not w wear ar them then This discrepancy aroused suspiciOn suspicion suspicion cion and led to the conclusion that Nesbitt had destroyed the sleeping garments IS ACCUSED taken to the Nesbitt esbitt home homey y yesterday by Ora Slater a private dete detective Uve count county officials and tr try Every t ry bit n nd d' d wa placed before him a and add d he was a ap- ap pointblank of having committed com corn mUted the murder For five hours he maintained his Innocence then when his friends said It was the general opinion in Troy that he was guilty he began to weaken and a IL threat by Slater to turn him over to the prosecutor precipitated the conf confession Nesbitt himself was a graduate of Ohio State university in n 1923 a football player and a fraternity member His parents died when he was young and he was reared here by Mr and Mrs Samuel Hottle Since the murder he has lived at atthe atthe atthe the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Drake parents of his wife Mrs Drake today asserted if Jake killed Continued on page 5 HUSBAND ADMITS ADMITS I HE KILLED WIFE AFTER QUARREL Continued from page 1 Frances he is Insane She had steadfastly maintained he was Inno info cent WELL KNOWN Ever Everyone one in Tro Troy knew Fran Drake and Jake Nesbitt and the two were childhood sweethearts Mrs tIrs Nesbitt was graduated from Ohio State in 1921 and both she and her husband took positions with witha a Troy kitchen appliance concern when they left the university They were active In social affairs of the Troy Country Countr club and were known asa pair of good s scouts Frances was considered to have ha better business ability than her husband husband husband hus hus- band and her friends often joked with her about riding Nesbit on that score L. L H. H Shipman Nesbitt's attorney o said he had not made any plans for his defense County officials will decide today what ch charges will be preferred against him Nesbitt in mental and physical distress has barred himself from newspaper men