Show DUAL SLAYER IN S TELLS STORY Twin vin Falls Prisoner Callously Relates Girls Girl's Death By ny United Press TWIN FALLS Idaho Nov 30 30 Douglas Van 32 refreshed b by y several nights of of rest after allegedly al- al perpetrating the tho most brutal series cries of criminal acts on record In Inthis inthis this his count climaxed the county gruesome story tory t today day by formally unfolding to o Sheriff E. E F. F Prater a detailed account of events that cost the lives of two persons and brought serIous erious wounds to a third I II I UI placed the gun against Milred's Mildred's Mildreds Mil Mu- dred's reds head as she came caine out of the culvert and fired one shot he said calmly to the sheri sheriff Prater gained a a. completed confession confes- confes ion aba clearing up conflicting evidence ar aa s. s to the slaying of pretty prett Mildred Hook of ot T Tacoma coma whose rigid bod body was s near found Berger yesterday Van readily confessed kid kid- naping his wife wire front from Tacoma and shooting hooting State Stat Trooper Fontaine Cooper and Deputy Sheriff Henr Henry C. C 2 Givens Given but had denied killing hilling his lis wife wile even after alter discovery of her ler body bod Tells of ot Van told Prater Mildred had been going downtown downtown down- down town own in Tacoma guarded by either her cr father or brother but Saturday 1 she ho was with Doris Clark I spotted spotted spot- spot ted ed her and took her in my car telling Doris to notify Mildreds Mildred's parents that if it the they sent officers the he word I would kill both Mildred and nd myself She had phoned and wired her parents arents on our trip this far lar and I was met by the officers near Juhl Buhl Monday I knew h her r parents had lad not heeded my warning warning and and that hat I faced either cither death or life imprisonment The only reason for m my acts is that hat her parents Ignored my threats After we were chased Monday night ight and Tuesday morning we abandoned the car and started walking We Ve found the railway track rack and followed it She kept insisting that I surrender to the officers When we got down the track we ve became cold and tired and we found this culvert We Ve decided to enter it and rest and to get out of ho tho wind as well as out of sight That is why I pulled the brush in Continued on Page Pase Two Column Daht DOUBLE SLAVE TELLS OF oi CRIM Continued from Page One Ore from the far side sIde to to keep out i h cold We stayed there a while am andl then we got colder and colder W vj were going to start on so 50 I out and Mildred Began Degan to follow il Unaware vare of Death Peril l. As sho she emerged I placed the run against her head and fired I one a shot hot I did not hit her with a rock o or t anything and do not know how ab shit could have had a skull fracture aj ail l I tho the doctors say a aThe The sheriff asked him If It knew she was to be killed I No he said f The contes confessed ed killer walled waited pa pi and calmly today loday in th the co county nty jail hero here for what fate may bring l Prater said he has no fear that Van will vill attempt to lo take lake hui own life By Br t the e Press i TACOMA Wash Nov 30 J M seph Hook today loday charged action jJ federal agents at the proper would have prevented the death ot of off his daughter Mildred and IdahO Idab State Stale Patrolman Fontaine Cooper 1 The detective fiction wrIter made mad his charge in an interview soo after afler he was told lold Douglass Dougla s Va Van Miss Hooks Hook's former husband hus band had confessed her slaying Hook claimed United States Div Dj Attorney J. J Charles Dennis of ot Tacoma had refused to aid him in stopping slopping Van abduction n flight across the Pacific t on the contention it was a family affair r. r Refused to Act I IT went to Mr Dennis Sunday Sundal afternoon the year old writ writer r r said after alter we had received word from my law in In Portland Portland Port Port- l land and that Mildred had called hIr t Saturday night and had told hin she was being held by her former forme husband and that the police 1 not to be notified as he would kill her and himself J I 1 went to Mr Dennis on the th suggestion of Judge Fred Remann t Remann who after alter hearing the stances told me rae it was a government govern govern- government ment case Mr Dennis told me jury in the world could be cori coi- coi J vinced Mildred didn't get in the c car cari 1 of her own accord and drive t td to l Portland with Van 1 Mr Dennis maintained it waS was wai just a A. family quarrel and that th the two would be bo back within eight or 10 days 1 Now Mildred Is dead Mother Iother Prostrated Had the men G-men acted in the case Im I'm confident neither my daughter nor the Idaho officer would have ha been killed The agents would have hav stopped Van before he could have gotten Into Idaho Hook made no direct comment on orr onVan f Van Vack s reported confession News yesterday of at his daughters daughter's death caused him to be put under a a i doctors doctor's care but he later recovered sufficiently to talk to interviewers Mrs Hook was being cared for by bya a trained nurse Hook previously had asserted he ha believed Mildred was in danger of death as soon as he heard a week ago today she had been forced into Van car on a Tacoma street He had also charged Van with making repeated threats or orthe on tho the lives of the entire Hook family Lived in iii Fear Hook said he had lived In constant con con- on- on stant slant fear of at Van and Mildred Mildred Mil Mu- dred had even slept with her bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room door open in dread of a night attack Mr and Mrs Carl Van parents of the man held at Twin Falls were were reported reported in Tacoma toda today today to to- da day but but could not be reached |