Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-07 | Page 5 | 'He Wouldn't Button His Coat'

He e W Wouldn't Button His is Coat oat p 6 1 wr V m ll n l li l l lr 7 i 4 ra N i a l f L li v x Gl y l r r l 1 i S. S r f x p rp r irr i yr s sI I y l lw w rj 4 CLAIMS BOY BUTTED HIS HEAD AGAINST BATHTUB Mrs Dorothy leaves cell for arraignment Murder Laid to Foster Mother I After Whipping Death of Boy SAN DIEGO Cal Dec 7 UP UP- UP The mother foster-mother of Leonard Skill- Skill horn 6 who died of a skull fracture fracture fracture frac frac- ture after a whipping because he didn't keep his shoes tied was charged today with murder Mrs Dorothy 29 said she whipped Leonard with a ruler Because he wouldn't button his coat and tie his shoes She locked him lim in a closet and when she let him out the boy butted his head against a bathtub she said She was held in jail without bail after being arraigned in municipal court on a complaint issued by the district attorney Her preliminary hearing was set for December 20 Mrs and her husband Chief Mate Elmer Boel Boel- hauff 30 of the U. U S S. S. S Balch are childless Leonard was the son of her ler husbands husband's former shipmate now transferred to Hawaii His mother separated from his father faUler and re re- re re-I re married The took the boy into their home and planned to adopt him Mrs said she whipped the boy but not unreasonably with the ruler last Saturday Then she kept him in the dark closet for a time The boy was found naked and unconscious on the bathroom floor by her husband who took him to a hospital Doctors said he had a skull fracture and multiple bruises Medieval l Torture Laid To Step-Mother Step ELIZABETH N N. J. J Dec 7 INS I Mrs Mrs Alice H H. Whaley of Union faced trial today on charges of ot punishing punishing punishing pun pun- her four step-children step with medieval torture Welfare authorities claim the 33 year-old year waitress whipped the children chil chil- dren Roy dren-Roy Roy 15 Elinor 11 William Villiam 10 and Robert 6 with 6 with a o cat tails nine and broke a dust mop over Roys Roy's back Elinor allegedly alleged was forced to sit on a hot air register register register reg reg- ister until the hot metal seared her body The children on their plea that they not be sent home with the stepmother stepmother stepmother step step- mother when she was released on 1000 bail have been in custody o of the state board of childrens children's guar guar-