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Show SEEK MASTER MINDS BEHIND MURDER OFJP Confetaion of Young Stayer CtuMa Officer, to Think Others Are Leader WAKSAW, Ind. March It Th "maaiar mind" bahjnd th kill inaj of Laray Lovatl, It. wara art lit aoucht by county official today, althouch Vtrtll lckar. . ha coafad ha murdered I hi rkum liana for ronvanlna a nrlal -ranl Jury nan Monday t lntatiaie lha lvati munlar ware not halted by lha ronfeeeion Hheriff C. B Moon and ether county afflcer bUd th rand Jury would find rldnr Implicating Im-plicating othare Tha motherly way of Mra Moon wrung th ronfeeemn front the lip of young liacka after tha iron matron a nf grilling by the aheriff and dataciivaa had failed repeatedly alma ha wag ar-reated ar-reated laat Kundaf According to the eonreaeton, Virgil Inlned hla friend at the ahark on tha Tippecane river Haturday. Aft'r leaping a while fie awaken la find lroy org III a a leap Ma aald ha picked up a plere of Iron and atrork tha youth acruaa th head with It and want out nf the ralMn. Then he did onme chorea at the home nf Kred Iwckar. tha brother with whom he etaved. and returned re-turned to the cottage In the duak of evening. , ltrof waa atlll a'lva. but In delirium de-lirium Virgil o.k nff I .amy 'a outer garment and dunned them himeelf. I clothing lroy in the clothing be had I taken nff Me lad l.eett to a horae land buay which had been taken from hla brother barn. Driving lo the railroad rrneaing. Virgil aald ha watched three or four train naaa and finally when another waa atlll eome dlatanro nway. he etopped the buggv arroaa the iracka. unhitched th horae and left lrroy in the buggy, hoping thai In view nf lhair trlking llkaneae and the fact that-Lnvett wore hi rlothea. the dead boy would be identl-i identl-i fled aa Virgil Ierker an that no I search would b Inattiuted for him. Toung lerker waa arreeled -unday nlghi at tha home of an uncle In Marion It waa thought at the time he had aialn Ixrvelt, but that ha waa aided by eome an who wanted to help Virgil collect 240 life Insurance ha carried after Ihe daad youth had been Identified Identi-fied aa !erker. INr-LUINCI aOrTINI. WARSAW. Ind.. March tt iflv the Aaeoctated I'reaai. Memories nf hla early religion, revived hy a teller urging urg-ing him In ronfaaa hla sine and aeek forglveneae, combined with the softening soften-ing Influence of motherly advice given bv Mra f R. Moon, wife of tha aher-Iff aher-Iff of Koaclusko county, haa reeulted In a ronfaaainn from Virgil Decker, II rears, in whlrh he declarea that he alona wag responsible for the death of hla chum. Ieroy lvett, a It -year-old youth of Klkhart, Ind. rlinre hla arreat Tueaday at Ms Hon, Ind., en the charge of murdering Lovett. lha Dorker bov haa Insisted that h had no part In th Lovett Isd s death. Teeterdav ha recelred In a letter from Mra. ((corse Walker of Kappanee, a woman wholly unknown to him. a deeply religions appeal that he -con-feaa everything to Ihe man you hava harmed." and Imploring him to 'Iran on Jeaua." , AlKa FOR tllLf. t.at yeaiarday Decker requested a Bible. Later. Mra. Moon heard him talking aa ha walked about hla cell. Mhe listened and heard hire quoting lha acrtpturea. "Did you find anmethlnc lo comfort you?" aha aaked. -My favorite vera la John, chapter 1, versa II." aald he. and quoted: " 'fur llod ao luvrd tha world thai II rave Mis only begotten eon that whosoever helleveth in Him. should not perish, hul have everlasting life.' " "Isn't that good?' ha shouted. "It makes me feel better already." "Hut, Virgil. If you keep on telling Ilea, don't you know that you will only mak your raa wore T" suggested Mra. Moon. -Yes, I know It. but I hava made mv pear with (iod and I'm ready to tell all." declared lha boy. |