Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-09 | Page 2 | Father Admits Beating 3 of Family to Death

Father Admits Beating 3 of Family to Death ESTILL S. S C. C Dec 9 U A UP-A A middle-aged middle father calmly told police Thursday that he beat his wife and two of their children to death with a baseball bat Wednes Wednes- day Held on three charges of murder murder murder mur mur- der after the bloody battered bodies of the victims were found at their home John B B. B Bowers year old grocer admitted the slayings in an oral statement solicitor Randolph Murdaugh said Murdaugh quoted Bowers a former mental patient as saying he had waited for his family to return from a movie and then had turned on them by one because he and his wife Ue had not been getting getting getting get ting along so well Police Chief A A. A M. M Deloach said he found the bodies of Mrs Bowers and 4 year old Sandra inside in inside inside in- in side the house Seven old year earold Wayne rayne lay Jay on t the e front porch Two 10 Ice cream cones which the children children chil chil- dren had been eating were found in the blood that covered the floor Solicitor Murdaugh said he would recommend that Bowers be besent besent besent sent to the South Carolina state hospital in Columbia for examination examination examina examina- tion following an inquest Murdaugh said Bowers told hl him m I he had twice before been a patient at the hospi hospital Bowers has four other children I two teen aged boys and two grown daughters