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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-01 | Page 11 | Death Mystery Solved by Story of School Feud

Type issue
Date 1933-09-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Death Mystery Solved by Story of School Feud
Type article
Date 1933-09-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 11
OCR Text Death Mystery Solved by Story Of Oi School Feud Young M Man ln Confesses Hanging Hanging Hanging Hang Hang- ing Victim in Revenge eY For Licking Three Years Agm Ago Ag m Or Br Associated Press FORT MORGAN Colo Sept 1 A l-A A slaying that northeastern Colorado authorities have tried for tor three years to solve was revealed In a n confession today to Sheriff R. R A. A Johnston as an April Fools' Fools day hanging to avenge a feud between n two schoolboys Sheriff Sherif Johnston said Herman Howell Howell How How- ell elt 20 of Brush had confessed he beat Ed Schilling of Brush and then hanged him hanged him from a rafter because he gave me a licking at school The slaying occurred April 1 1 1930 Johnston said Howells Howell's confession came after a trusty In the county jail where Howell had been held on ona a misdemeanor charge disclosed that Howell admitted the slaying Howell escaped from Jail jall three days ago and returned with a gun with which he threatened to kill the sheriff just for tor a a pastime Johnston saId In h his hia J confession Howell according accord accord- ing to the sheriff told how Schilling had a b beating ting in a fight tIght at al school Johnston said Howell related how he obtained an ax handle went to Schillings Schilling's house and called him to 0 a shed and beat him Insensible Howell Sowell tied a rope and a wire pieced together around Schillings Schilling's head hung him to a rafter and fled fled according according ac ac- according cording to the confession the sheriff Obtained 1 Schillings Schilling's death was believed at atthe atthe th the time to have been a According to Sheriff Johnston Howell admitted that he had shot another another an an- other youth Arlow Osborne in the head with a 22 rifle Just to see him Jump Osborne recovered ve ed
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