Show FATHER ADMITS ADMITS' KILLING BUY BOY 3 I Confesses s Beating and Kick Kicking ing ng Child to Death After Aftel i Wife Vi fe Testifies l 4 Cob Colo Dec 8 In S-In In th the e cold unemotional al words of ofa a sworn affidavit Donald K Smith 3 30 farmer today confessed to the he brutal murder murde r of his 3 year son in a fit it of jealous s rag rage announced Smith was moved to Denver for Ic r safekeeping after crowds o of angry y 1 citizens gathered on treet street corners corner s here Confession on of t the murder described as one ot of the most atrocious atrocious' in th the e history of crime in Colorado was ob oh obtained tamed from Smith only alter after he had hod been dramatically confronted by his hi s distraught wife who screamed You killed my baby You stomped him to o death officers said Previously Smith had told of officers officer cers s the curly headed blue eyed child had died es as the result of ot injuries re received receive d when the father opened a d door or and not seeing the child knocked him down all a lie Mrs Smith told officers He made that story up after atter he b beat at and kicked the child ld to death when little Donnie was unable to sa say breakfast when his fath father fathe r asked him to He made me promise to back him up in the story with a a threat of beating me rae if it I Investigation of the childs child's death which occurred last Monday had been dropped when Sheriff Sherif E. E E. E was satisfied with the fathers father's stor story Yesterday morning on the strength of ot a letter he received from rom Smiths Smith's father in Mosinee Wis reopened investigation |