Show wJ r M MAN N CONFESSES I WITCH Wi CH MURDER BEAT OMAN TO UfA DEATH T HID BODY IN YS Victim His Daughter Taxicab Dri Driver er Claims Claims' TELLS Y OF SPELLS Wife Corroborates Co ob Ja es St Story Also Held Held- in J JaiL il KALAMAZOO A A A OO Mich July 20 A Associated te f I Pre Press Eugene Eugene s-Eugene BurgUI Burgess Bur Bur- gUI gee year old taxicab driver drive who until Thursday night neve never was wu wasl l known to do anything more Jei os than bait a fish hook sat at in the Kalamazoo county count jail last lat night and told officers officer why he beat but Mrs Etta Ett L. L Fairchilds year old 75 y in inmate Inmate in mate of an anold an old ladies ladies' home hom to death I 1 have e done don the right thing i he said That That woman woman could make you ha hays have any ani of a a disease Burgess Burgess' wife wife sat sat beside bo him and corroborated his statements The IS dead aid id Im I'm glad of rit it It she sIe s o said saIdi a a she w was Jj Jed to a a. cell According cc to thIr 1 st stOry ry o r tiOCo tiie e tY u tor Burgess e and h t ft bell v d' d t tw tF w was a witch witch and d kill people merely by the p power er ot of h her r will They said she bragged braS braS' sli she had h had d killed d the forthe past twenty five years ears Including her husband in her bet list of of victims So they said they the J Invited tho the aged ag d domin woman omin to 8 supper pp Thursday e evening evening eve eve- e. e ning and killed her hel while she sho ate DROPPED PROPPED BODY IN WELL WELLa a Burgess said h he beat Mrs Fairchilds' Fairchilds Fair Fair- childs' childs head with a d pipe and hammer tied cement blo blocks kS to the body hody and dropped it In well welt at atthe atU atthe U the rear of of their ho home e vt- vt Asked about spells spell I 11 he said sald Mrs Fairchilds s cast yport her In Intended Intended Intended In- In tended victims tho the confessed co f ss slayer said I 1 stagger lota th f of f t tunes times cant can't see at times have aches e and Continued on Ii S page page 6 5 B Beat at Aged Woman to to Death eath Hid Body in n Well He Says Continued from page e 1 pains In in my he head d and nd arms and trouble in br breathing If It you OU men ment t felt lt like me you OU wouldn't be sorry corry It U was either cither Mrs rl life Ute or or oi ours He said 1 Mrs r F had bewitched be vit witched hed hl hi hH 17 year old daughter J Eugenie and Intend Intended d to cause the girls girl's death by witchcraft Burgess Burgess' daughter daught r. r who was was' away from homo m when Mrs Fairchilds was slain and his son Burnett Burgess nurs 27 21 were held but were to tobe tobe be bh r rel released l aa asod d today The younger Burgess Burgess' admitted iI l' l lie he kne knew linew about the sta slaying hig before betor tho the home l late t Thursday night but there was n n no evidence to show ho he was present when the crime was committed 5 Eugene Eu Burgess was wu known to hI his neighbors as a n. kindly man wh who spent his spare time fishing The Burgess and Fairchilds J families had been on friendly terms for a a. quarter quarter ter of a century Other acquaintances acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ances ance of ot Mrs rs considered d dh h her r affable and harmless Sev Sev- dral years ears ago Eugene Eugeno Burgess Joined a mysterious r religious cult and differences ar arose se between n the tw t families They became friendly friend friend- ly again about a year ago R. Dr A A. Morter MOtter Io ter of ot the Michigan fin State Hospital for lor the Insane at Kalamazoo examined ed Burgess Burg ss and his wife te las last night but r refused to divulge his findings |