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Show FURTHER ACCOUNT . OF BRUTAL MURDER CHIOO, Cel., June 29. More evi-dene evi-dene concerning the brutality that ranted the death Tuesday of thirteen-year-old Helea. Rumball came to the police po-lice from the lipe of a younger lister of the dead girl. The child told the offl-eere offl-eere that while Helea wu in the'etifling attic where her lifeleee body wu found, her cries of pain were heard by the muter, who pleaded with her stepmother, Mrs. Emma Rumball, to be allowed to go and comfort the sufferer. These pleas, according to the child, were rebuffed re-buffed and the woman made her go to bed. In the late houn of the night Mr.. Rumball awakened the girl and her brother and told them Helen wa dead. Today Sheriff Webb discovered where the rone with which it is believed Helen was chok.'d to death wa fastened to the etudding in the attic. Marks on the throat of the body indicate that the rone wan fattened about the neck. Mn., Rumball taid todar that while Helen wa bound in the attic her step-uncle. step-uncle. Arthur Lewis, taunted her until un-til the became frenzied in her efforts to free herself. |