Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-05 | Page 20 | Slayer Admits K. K. K. Murder

1 t. t SLA SLAYER YER ADMITS r I r K K K K K K 1 MURDER l M I e Officers Say Itinerant Painter a Confesses Plot to Kill 1 t Klan Member J JEFFERSON Wis July 5 1 tr If Carl Carl Church Church captured as a. th the slay slayer r of Earl Eul Gentry Gentry erstwhile bodyguard to D. D C C. former Indiana Ku Klux Klan Clan leader confessed the crime the authorities said aid today shortly after he was arrested at Fort Atkinson near here ere Sheriff Sheri Joseph T T. Lange and Tort Atkinson officers caught Church last Jast night as he lay asleep in a 3 vinery I am not sorry in the least for the act I committed as I feel teel that I I did dida dida a a 8 good deed for society when I killed Earl Gentry Church an itinerant painter also known as George Georg Slim King Kins was quoted by Sheriff Lange as saying paying He committed the act he said be be- t I cause cause Mrs Carrie Gill 59 year old widow accused of plotting with Church to bring about Gentrys Gentry's death had ad been abused by Gentry because ushe she vas waa w kind to me when I was wasa lick a Mrs Gill Gm whose late husband was wast f t fa well do well to do tavern keeper is bein being held for ti first t degree murder murd r and ad ad- Emitted the investigators said that the he gave Church 60 to slay Gentry She is known locally as the Sunshine Lady L. l dy because of her acts of ol charit charity and pleasant temperament Gentrys Gentry's body with a bullet wound I in n his head was found last Sunday slumped in his automobile which had been seen parked near the Gill residence where he had made his home for the thelast thelast last ast eight years ears