Show huES mt l PR'S STORY Texas Killer Is Branded Thirteen Times L a Murderer r. r I. I CaL Fe Feb 2 2 AP- AP cc J. J Hassell H ssell convicted Texas i- i today todar was branded as as- thir- thir ii Umes a murderer as tiro decay decay- ecar- ecar ones of four of his victims reed re- re sed ed in ill a vault here after fter having unearthed as the thc result of a ho he recently ma e. e e skeletons of four four-a woman three children were presumed Ie e those of Mrs l Marie Vogel of Pa and her children whom Hass Hassell ll lived lied here more moreta t-a t l ten years ago I n Hassell confessed to murders t l exas te e also said he be had killed Others ethers here bere Following a chart charta a ade yesterday il t red the bones in the basem basement nt cottage here In further urther substantiation of Has Has- I 41 stor story neighbors identified pictures of him as' as the I. I It Baker who once occupied the JU ge with a woman known to to teJas Mrs Baker a. a and d her three thre l children Has Hasten en admits t ag g used the name nam-c of of Baker h bile e living Jiving here Ie I-Ie Is awaiting awaiting- in Texas as the r result sult of l to sla laying in that state of his wIfe 1 eight stepchildren il fA today w were re 1 ih the problem of further iden- iden fy ng the skeletons hen the skeletons were ed ti were found to be t those se of an iu Hilt t and three children From de iTi t o s by Hassell the Jl iii e a identified the forms as those r a woman a bo boy 8 a girl 5 and anda a old old infant i he e skulls of aU all four had be been n hed ed and pieces of rope found I a n n about the necks Indicated at he victims had been strangled i oy's skull was vas found wr wrapped eay eavy cloth indicating that he het hei t i cen smothered and strangled Inthis confession Hassell declared ti d clubbed and choked r th wo to 10 death while her children gre U asleep lie He next put the chile chil- chil e e to de death th lie He said he had been I R with the 1 hp woman and that he killed her a quarrel over thee the question of his going into the arm army at the time the United States entered entered en- en the World war Hassell Was as three days In digging s. s grave and bur burying ing his victIms 1 recall having seen him craWl house throwing out dIrt and ru rubbish bish When questioned about the absence ot of Mrs Baker Hassell them told that she had been called to San Francisco by of a sister r. r He also was seen car car- x a heavy trunk into a garage on the the day the woman and children disappeared l' l Neighbors also said they smelled rags Durning in th the kitchen for several days and nights I after the strange disappearance o of Hassell's family Several months later Hassen Hassell j a woman whom he intro intro- duc d as his housekeeper and a achild achild child to live with him Hassell disappeared disappeared dis- dis appeared a short time after and the woman closed close the house lIe Ire returned returned re- re turned three months later for a bundle itch Ich the woman had left at a neighbors neighbor's house That was wase e Ins Iasi een of him here Mrs Vogel was reported missing two years ago by a sister Mrs Gertrude Gertrude Ger- Ger trude Hoffman of Pittsburg who |