Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-10-10 | Page 3 | Babes Wired to Plowshare Drown; Parent Confesses

Babes Wired to Plowshare Drown Parent Confesses FLINT Mich Oct 10 UP The uP-The The bodies of two babies attached attached at- at ached f-ached to a plowshare by wire were taken from Bloat lake early today Their stepfather Ferrin Rowland who confessed drown drown- lug ing g them hem because they were a nuisance was en route here from bt St t. t LOUIS in custody 4 The children were Katherine Woodwin 6 and Virginia 2 Rowland missing for a week was arrested in St. St Louis yesterday and allegedly confessed the slayings He said he took the children from his home in Harrison Mich after his wife wile the tho childrens children's mother complained com com- repeatedly about them being in the way He told her he said he was giving them to a Flint family for adoption Instead St. St Louis po- po lice Ice said he confessed he took them out on Bloat lake Jake in a rowboat wired them to the share and threw them hem overboard Mr Mrs Rowland held in Clare county jail at Harrison since the thc search for Rowland began Monday collapsed when told of her husbands husband's husbands husband's hus- hus bands band's confession She had insisted her ler husband had taken her children by a previous marriage to turn them over to a family for adoption Rowland waived extradition in St. St Louis last night and Prosecutor John J. J Carrol Carrot of Clare Ciare county count and peace officers left with him by automobile automobile au- au for lor Harrison I Sl St Louis police quoted Rowland as follows An uAn estate had been settled and andI I had come into a little money and the children were annoying my wife So I told them I was going to take them boat riding We Ve three got into my small de delivery delivery de- de livery Jivery truck and drove to the lake We Ve got in the boat and we got out into the lake I put the wire around their necks and tied it to the plowshare plowshare plowshare plow plow- share which was in the boat Then I threw them overboard They made no outcry when I put the wire around their necks but they clung hard to the boat I rocked the boat until they sank and were drowned My wife had nothing to do with it and knew nothing about it But ButI I discussed with her the idea of adopting the children out We wanted to get around more and the children were a a. nuisance They held us down When I took the children away I told her I was takIng takIng taking tak tak- ing them to Flint to the family that was going to adopt them