Show PROFESSOR COED MURDER SNOOK ADMITS Rf RENTING RO ROOM M fOR LOVE NEST Slain Girl Posed as His Hi Wife He Confesses j 1 to Police l 3 1 HAT GIVES CLUE CLUES Suspect Confronted b by Rooming House Owner i COLUMBUS CLUMBUS 0 O. June 15 AP i AP-i Confronted at the county jail by a woman who told police she h had d rented a room a-room room to him which he had shared hared at intervals with Miss The The- ora Hi Hix slam Ohio State sity alty coed Dr James H H. H Snook admitted ad ad admitted to detectives tonight that tho the womans woman's story tory was true The woman was as Mrs rs N. N M M. Smalley Detectives questioned her herat herat at her rooming house and were told that a a. man representing himself as Howard Snook Snook of t Newark had rented rent ed the room in February for himself him him- self and nd wife She said he told he her hj h wa was a a demonstrator for lor a a salt c company a Vered 11 Dr Ir tipp and the woman was taken to the jail and Dr Snook was called from his cell GREETS PROFESSOR Mrs Ire Ire- Smalley greeted r ted him with Good evening Mr Snook and Dr Snook returned her salutation Thereupon he told detectives that he rented the room and that Miss a Hix was the wife who shared i it with him part of ot the time Dr Snook said he be had turned the tho room back to Mrs Smalley yesterday yester yester- d day y explaining that he was transferred trans to Washington Cour Courthouse house Ohio and that he took his belongings belongings belong belong- ings and those thos of at Miss l Hix 1111 from the place with the exception of ot ofa a womans woman's womans womans woman's wo wo- mans man's brown felt hat which was found In the room Ho lIe Identified the hat as belonging to Miss lIss Bi His He t tOld ld Mrs Smalley according to the story both told police that his wife wite would remain until Sunday He said he had been to the room several times with Miss Hix and Mrs 1 Smalley said she had seen the girl accompany him to the place three or four tour times She said Miss Hix nix might have ha been there oftener ROOM AT REAR Mrs Smalley explained that the room occupied by the couple was at atthe atthe atthe the rear of ot the tho building and that they always came and left by a a. rear entrance accounting for the fact that she had no more definite knowledge of at how many times the girl girt had been there ther Detectives said ald they had uncovered uncovered ered the fact that Miss Hix wore the brown hat on the night of at the killing and expressed ed the belief bellet that s she ehe e had been in he the room shortly before she met her death They refused to reveal the basis of ot their evidence The Tho scene between Dr Snook Mrs Irs Smalley and the detectives oc occupied occupied oc- oc but a a. few minutes and after atter Continued on page 4 I SNOOK ADMITS ADMITS' RENTING ROOM FOR LOVE NEST Continued ft from m pa page e 1 b both U had m made de their statements Snook was taken back to his cell celland eel cell and ad Mrs frs Smalley Smale returned to her home hom By HARRY tARRY W. W S SHARPE ARPE United Pre Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS Ohio June 15 United Press Press Police tonight were attempting to wring a confession from Dr James H. H Snook the Ohio State university professor of ot veterInarY veterinary vet vet- who was arrested today as a suspect in the rifle range murd murder mur mur- d der r o of l I Miss s Th Theora ora Hix lUx a coed In Inh inVie n h Vie the college ot medicine Dr snook admitted that he saw Miss 1188 fix frequently and that he M had iad helped h her r. r finance her education tion but h hp lip denied that denied that h hd he knew anything about her murder Miss IK's IKs body mutilated almost beyond recognition was found Friday at- at by two boj boys on a rifle r ange northeast of Columbus In It the doctors doctor's blue coupe police found one bl blood o stained glove on which they claimed to have er red d strands of ot hair A hairpin was ns picked up from the tM floor of ot the cars car Dr r. r Snook however was ready with an explanation He said sald he had staIned th the glove after alter injuring his hand white while hil repairing hi his aut autOmo- autOmo mo- mo Wl bile lle WAS CHAMPION SHOT Tracing back through th the recent movements of 0 the middle age aged vet vet- who was arrested at hi hiS hiS' on the Ohio State Stat campus pOlice learned that h he went frequently fre- fre to tho Title range rang for tor target pr rW For s several veral years he was world champion pistol shot and in 1920 he lie w went to Antwerp as a mem- mem memer her er of ot tho the winning American Olympic pie pic ic pistol team At th the same saint time a review of Miss Has college college- career yielded virtually no cities as to why anyone anyone- would have desired to murder her She came to Ohio St State te from her herome home ome in Fla na la and had attended high school in Northill Conn while her father William T. T Hix t taught In the public schools ot of f New York Miss fix Hix was known to her friends as a a. qui quiet t studious girl with only a p passing Inter interest st in men n. n although she was pretty She play played d tennis and and- golf gott and often walked alone in the tM twilight b before tore starting a 4 night with her text boons bOOkS She he had finished the p preparatory cours' cours course ourse and was taking advanced d work wort leading to a a. d degree gree of ot doctor ot of t medicine a Dr or or a bespectacled man manIn manIn mann In Ina n a blue coupe whose description fits Ii the veterinarian veterinarian occasionally h occasionally slon took h her r riding Sometimes les she had dates with Dr Marion Meyer of tho dep department ot of horticulture Meyer came Into police headquarters today and gave a satisfactory alibi That left Dr Snook as the only onty suspect In lii the case He submitted to arrest without protest and drove to hea headquarters quarter in the blue coupe in which friends had seen him riding rid rid- ing ng with Miss 1 Hix One One of ot the doctors doctor's hands was was bandaged II He explained that he had Injured it when a wrench slipped while he lie wa was t repairing his hiscar hiscar hiscar car earlier in the week Police surgeons examined the hand an and said It must have been in injured In- In several ago I When WIlen did you have the tho Injury dressed Dr Sn Snook oc was ast asked d. d Not until last night I took care of ot it myself at first Detectives then began directing questions at sit Dr Snook designed to trap him into an admission that he lie had been with pith Miss on the night she was na murdered presumably Thursday Dr Snook explained calmly that he reported d' d dat at his campus office Thursday evening at 7 45 o'clock to clear up some work He lie Ie said that later a er in in the evening he went to a 0 golf golt club to get his shooting glasses and then home and to bed I About the hour Dr Snook claims to have entered his hIs' offices office Miss 1 HIx walked out of ot the university hospItal hospital hos hon I pital where she was tp be employed for or the summer She Sho told the girl on the tM hospital hopital switchboard that she ho was leaving for fot a date dale That was the last anyone saw of ot her he Until until un un- til Milton Mitton Miller 16 and Paul 15 15 found the body on on the range ranc Autom Automobile tracks on the range indIcated that Miss diss Hix or her bo body y bad ad been brought there In a 8 car Tile The place wh where re her body was found borG bore oro no marks of ot th tho battle she must have haV waged ged for her life me Her head had ben hen crushed as though by bya bya a heavy wrench Her throat was stashed slashed and there were wounds in her abdomen Mrs Alice Morah l identified the tM bo body y guided more mor by th the fashionable fashionable fashion able broWn dress with white collar and cuffs than by br the the mutilated features Mrs Moran MoTan is secretary of of Nell I lIeu Hall dIl women's 1 dormitory at OhIo State Others who viewed the theody body ody were Alice AlIc and Beatrice BusI Busin Bustin Bus Bus- I tin in who had shared an apartment apartments s with ith Mi MIM Hix |