Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-15 | Page 7 | Police Arrest Killer Suspect

POLICE ARREST KILLER SUSPECT M Man n Confesses Slaying anc and Burning Body of Chicagoan CHICAGO Dec 15 A JP-A P A few minutes rain min utes after the blazing body of a man had been found in a vacant lot police had a suspect In custody today ant and said he confessed to the slaying The victim was John A. A Jobb 53 building bunding car caretaker taker and the man h held ld as as s his slayer is Fred Markham a bill bil peddler Lieutenant Oliver Hoffman and D Detective James Sullivan said he confessed Police said they believed Jobb orIginally originally or or- came from Saskatchewan in Canada Letters were found among his belongings postmarked at Brandon Brandon Bran Bran- don and Swift Current in that prow pro ince But it was to old 8 Jackie Threlkeld whose mother Mrs Mittie Threlkeld identified Jobb's charred body that police owed their clue that tha cd ed to the quick solution of the mys mys- tery Jackie told of a terrible fight in inthe inthe inthe the building where he lives with his mother and where Markham also resIdes resides re re- sides and where Jobb was employed as janitor Taking Markham into custody th the two wo officers said he confessed at oneto once one to having killed Jobb Tuesday night nigh and hiding his body in a storeroom until last night when he removed It t to the vacant lot under cover o ot of darkness saturated it with gasoline and touched a match to it after placing pine ing ng it in a crudely made crematorium of bricks There it was discovered still burn tag ng by a passerby