Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-31 | Page 1 | Crime is Revolting

CRIME IS REVOLTING Butte Girl of Nine Murdered Mur-dered and Her Body Hidden Away. BUTTE. Mont.. Jan. 31. Through the startling confession of Miss Adeline Courtney last night, the officers arrested Eugene Helbok, a tailor, on the charge of murdering nine-year-old Ethel' GUI seven years ago. her ravished and frightfully fright-fully mutilated body being rudely thrust and crammed down a toilet and covered with newspapers and refuse. Miss Courtney"s tale Is harrowing In its details, her confession being prompted, she declares, by the awful weight of the horrible and shocking tragedy on her conscience. con-science. The woman declares she was Helbok's mistress, and when he became aware that she had discovered his connection con-nection with the tragedy he had kept her a prisoner in her own home, bound hand and foot to her bed. He compelled her to scratch her arm till it bled. then, with her own blood. s!n a statement giving the right to Helbok and two. masked friends to kill her if she divulged the murder. The girl's body was found as a result of a strange presentiment the mother had that her child's body would be found there, though many searchers had looked into the toilet.