Show KIDNAPER TALKS f OF WIFE KILLING KILLINGe e C. C 1 TWIN FALLS Idaho Dec 2 UP Although freely admitting th that t he lie killed Stat State Traffic Off Officer Fon- Fon t thin in Cooper rand and a d Mildred Hook 22 fi Is former wife DoUglas Js Van 32 continued today to refuse to sign signa a formal confession iI I want to talk to z my y mother first h he told Sheriff E. E F. F Prater Va Van had ad regained some of the c confidence shown when arrested arrest arrest- ed d last Tuesday after killing Cooper Coop Coop- er when wh-en tho the officer and Deputy Sheriff He Henry ry C C. Givens attempted S to arrest arret him on a 0 charge of abducting ab nb d ducting his former wife wIle from Tac Tam Ta Ta- I c coma m mIt I It was planned beforehand he said laid In reference to the shooting of Miss Iss Hook Hool I feel justified I probably would do it all aU over again Ho blamed Miss Hooks Hook's father ather Joseph Hook Tacoma mystery storywriter story storywriter writer for his trouble I warned him that I would kill her if It ho he didn't leave us alone tho the man i ld Van Va Va 1 and Miss Miss- Hook were married secretly in 1933 Sho She obtained ob 5 tain tamed d a divorce last October and returned to her parents' parents home A week ago Saturday Van picked her up in Tacoma forced her into his car and drove to Boise oIse From Boise the pair pall started for Twin Falls By that time word of the abduction had spread and Cooper and Givens were stationed on an on the tho highway near Buhl Buhi to arrest him Van ignoring the signal A to stop atop shot and killed Cooper wounding wounding wound wound- ing fag Givens Ho He then drove on a few miles mUes abandoning his car That night according to his own story he crawled Into a two-foot two culvert with his bis wife to sleep They were were leaving caving the c culvert when the placed his gun against Miss Hooks Hook's head headd end and d killed her |