Show POOlROOM BOYS ADMIT KilliNG flORIST Chicago Youths Hide for Five Hours Waiting for Victim CH CHICAGO Auril Two 10 Two of tho men who on EH Faster Easter ter nl night ht beat and choked to rJ death ath William W. W Well Veil amon among th thEaster the Easter UlicH lilies of ot his greenhouse at Rt 21 West Vest third Sixty street have been arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested and have confessed And just justas as ab tho the police predicted they are not old and hardened criminals but hut young fellows fel fel- lows who spend their spare time loafing about poolrooms where crooks congregate congre cong gate The two who have t confessed are arc Wilbert A. A Hard 3 23 years ears old of or West est seventh Fifty place and Walter Vatter F R F. Weed 18 18 of West ninth Fifty street They her confessed that they went Into Wells Well's shop about S o'clock In the evening even even- Ing of Easter Laster Sunda Sunday lay Jay In watt walt for Cor Cormore more than five hours until Well Veil came caine homo home slugged him with a club tied lily his feet and stuffed his hiM mouth full Cull of ot cloth robbed him and left him bound on the floor The They claim tho they did not mean to klU kip him and did not know that the they had committed a n murder until tho they read the newspapers on Monday mornInG morn morn- lm ing g. g There was a n third young joung Cello fellow with them but bul ho he is In hiding In a suburb Last night Captain ln Joseph Smith of tho Englewood station with his men went out In III a an n auto and said that when the they return the they expect to bring bring- tho the third man with them Weed First to Confess Weed eed was the first to confess confers He could not stand It when Captain Smith began to question him and point out variations in the story he told Except for or the poolroom feature the case caso of ot Weed Vecil would wourl puzzle the police sorely He comes o of excellent family he never s. s ho he never was arrested before beCore In his life lire nor in trouble of any 1411 kind lie was In III no need of mone money for ho has worked for fOl months 1 In a hi big loop store Ills His reli religious sous training had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been neglected for for or he attended o St. St Martins Martin's church and was a pupil pupil of f St. St Martins Martin's parochial school But he ho had the poolroom habit Often Tried to Rob It was no sudden Impulse to do wrong for In his confession Weed tells telli of ot attempts at bur burglary lar extending over the IR last t six elx months He worked In Weil Wells Well's s 's greenhouse until six months ago o. o and when hel eft tt he kept kepl a key to the front door Several times he ho says ho has haB gone ono Into the tho place at night looking lookIng look- look Ing Ins f for r mono money to steal but denies that ho he found any Hard Is IH older r and the tha police say not so Innocent The They have ha not his hio entire record but the they say wiy 3 that ho has been arrested more than once and that he was once convicted of burglary bl They The third man Is said to be about Weeds Needs age ase and If he is caught his confession con con- is considered certaine certain Weeds Needs e ds d's confession was wan simple and complete completo when once he decided to talk Tried It Night Before The three of or us 18 planned to pull the tho robbery robber off oft last Jait Saturday night he said Mid and we went to Wells Well's door but bul I saw flaw two detectives s across tho the street and we rane ran We Ne e met on Easter Sunday In a a. house In Yale late street and planned It all nil out anew l Hard scolded me and the tho other fellow for running away tway tiN the night before said before said we wo had cold feet It Il was about S o'clock when w wo e went to Wells Well's door and I opened It with with the key I had kept when I left Well Yell W We e 0 went t back among the lie flow flow- ers ere and aud hid to walt wall for tor him hire V Wo 0 e knew he always w went nt ov over to the tho North Side on Sunda Sunday evenings Wo We waited about five bourn I guess I. I when he hI came in When hen en he walked Lack back toward his livin living groan room we Jumped waked jp Ip and Hard hit him over over the head head 1 with a club We Ve didn't mean to o kill l him but I guess Hard hit him too hard The Tho old man made a pretty stiff fl fight 1 lt and we we- had to Jump on on him him and hoko him and I stuff same R me cloth In his mouth ith to keel keep him still I tied his feet teet with rome rope Got Only 10 lo Hard got ot the money out of hie his ts I dont don't Know how much IlliCit II ho hc got gt but he gave me mo only 10 H Ho was WI to have given me mo more mor more but bul he never did Then we slipped out at the base ment door In the thc rear and went wont home Both were were- booked on charges of ot murder 1 1 t f a Last when your youn o nb Weed was s office to b betaken bo be l led ct from Crom the tho captains captain's taken back to his Ufa cell there thero was s acone a acone cone seldom 8 witnessed messed In th the tho old police police police po po- po- po lice station Weed had been ver cool his m and and unconcerned In conation Jn had borne himself ei rather J Jauntily n X- X But 1 office of office of- of the a ns us he topped stepped from fice lice he saw his his- older brothers Harry Barry ind Edward sitting on a bench With a a. wild cry err the bo boy leaped away his arms and threw thre his detectives R roof rom rom th the about the necks of hl hiM bi brothers others and amid screamed and sobbed screamed Make It I It Il as Nt easy as on father rather and mother mother moth moth- moth moth- I d Wc-d. Wc y er M p you ou can Dont Donl let them think any tny wo worse of It me than th they y U O t to And AmI tell them I Ill I'll b be a a. man when whon thie Is nil 1111 over rv I The Tha brothers comforted him hint to b hest f t I they could and urged him to tell the I full truth rind make whatever 11 tinn hf he ca can Weeds Weed's father father told Captain Smith that hat ho lie could not understand nd the tho boynt boy boynt nt all unless It w were ro the 11 bl tHos t. t habit v v. v tics Hes always Leon n n. good ol i bo boy h he said 11 hI lIe Ito was never v wild ld never drank nor gave UK us a bit or trouble and antl he no worked nil mill tho time tune I J cant can't understand d H. H fL Captain Smith and amid his men mn an arp trying try try- ing n to connect Hard and the third man with th them n order of Alexander Prince an aged ged watchmaker r who was w murdered murdered mur mur- dered lorer and his hiM boll body set pet in cn n fire In South Englewood a few Cow ow weeks aso aio a o. o |