Show Youth Admits ml s Slaying Girl in Theater CHICAGO Feb 25 LS A R-A A 17 year-old year former high school student student stu stu- student dent was seized in suburban Berwyn Berwyn Berwyn Ber- Ber wyn Wednesday and confessed Coroner A. A L. L Brodie announced that he kissea kisses pretty Dorothy Broz his year old companion and then shot her to death while they sat in the downtown Palace theater I IThe The youth Clarence McDonald I a a. railroad was seized on information supplied by the victims victim's victims victim's victims victim's vic vic- tims tim's friend Miss Elaine Mastney 17 a senior in the Morton high school She told authorities that Dorothy said Clarence was inordinately inordinately inordinately inor inor- jealous and had said If If I cant can't have you nobody else will Some 12 hours after the shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing late Tuesday in the theater balcony where and Sealed Lips were being shown the youth made a statement to the coroner and Assistant States State's Attorney Leslie Curtis It Just Happened S I dont don't know it know know know-it it just ha happened happened hap he was quoted as saying Was there any conversation before before before be be- fore you shot her the boy was asked No he replied I 1 was kissing her Young McDonald said he had been going with Dorothy for about two years that they had talked of marriage but later had decided to wait four four years until she was wasa a little older He admitted the officials said that on a former occasion he had drawn a pistol on the girl while they were in anice an anice anice ice cream parlor but that he was just fooling Police had obtained only a a. vague description of the youth who stepped across Dorothys Dorothy's bleeding body sprinted up an aisle and escaped in the dark and confusion confusion confusion con con- fusion of the theater Knew of Pistol Dorothy he later confessed had felt the pistol in his pocket and had pleaded with him to give it to her but he refused In the nearly empty balcony Dorothy suddenly cried Help oh help me Hes He's got gott a agun agun gun Those near by heard her but associated her cry with the zany antics in the picture just ended A scene in the crime feature a fight in a prison mess hall had the sound amplifiers roaring a perfect cover for the shot that followed by a few seconds Oh get that man Im I'm shot Im I'm shot shoU Dorothy screamed then collapsed in an aisle a bullet beneath beneath beneath be be- neath her heart |