Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-28 | Page 10 | Boy Poisoner's Trial Rushed

BOY TRIAL RUSHED LOS ANGELES Sept 28 UP As P-As As authorities today moved to bring LeRoy Drake year old student of chemistry and astronomy to a q quick ick trial tria on on charges he murdered his el elderly elderly el- el derly deny uncle a and d. d aunt Mr and Mrs Henry p police lice disclosed that hat his alleged admission Jl he poisoned poisoned poi poi- poi poi- zoned them to gain possession of their estates made mad nad a the crime Detective Lieutenant F. F S. S Stone who charged the youth confessed confess d to him that greed was the motive for forthe forthe the crime said disinherited disinherited Drake only three days after young Drake was arrested for Jor driving driving driving ing a car without the owners owner's consent consent con con- sent Drake at first told police he de decided decided de- de to kill his uncle and aunt and plunge their bodies in the harbor at it S San n Pedro to spare them the Ithe Imo knowledge of his arrest