Show DET DETAILS ILS OF SLAYING BARED NOT GUILTY PLEA IS MADE Y Youth o th Admits Pearl-Handle Pearl Revolver Is His Tells of Fight 07 News S t to Tb The Telegram COLUMBUS COLUMBUS Ohio Jan 1 15 Weldon Veldon Weldon H. H Wells 23 23 3 of or Kansas City who last I night confessed h he be slew Mona Simon in inI ina ina I a room at nt the Deshler notel Thursday night pleaded not guilty this thin morning in municipal criminal court anti and was held without bond He was bound over to the grand Jury without ball Immediately after his arrival front from Huntington hid last night in charge of Sergeant of Detectives Albanese Wells Yells confessed he slew Blew the Simon girl sirl In a matter of ot fact tact steady voice oice he recounted tho the details of ot one ona of or the themo mo most t horrible and sensational murders in Columbus police annals His hands shook and perspiration stood out on his forehead but he told his story In in a n calm nonchalant manner The confession confession confession con con- was as made ma-de In the presence of or Chief Chic of oC Police PoUce Carter Albanese and County Prosecutor Robert Duncan Court Stenographer Armstrong took hi his story In shorthand ADMITS PISTOL OWNERSHIP Wells admitted a n pearl caliber revolver which Chief Carter took from his grip was his I got ot In Columbus Tuesday afternoon afternoon after after- noon Wells said and registered at atthe atthe atthe the Deshler hotel about noon I went to my room unpacked my grip and then went down and got some drinks Wednesday night after eating supper supper supper sup sup- per I left leet my hotel to take a walk I got several drinks and started to finish my jaunt About four tour squares north of oC the hotel I met this woman Mona Simon I had never seen Been her before She proposed that we get a drink and wanted to take me Into some Bome cheap saloon I suggested suggested- that we go to the Deshler When we wo got inside the lobby I no noticed noticed no- no how hov shabby she looked and tried t to shake her She Insisted and rath rather r than have a n fight tight I took her up to m my room After we were In the tho room about twenty five minutes she began laugh laush- ing Ins I asked her what s she he was laughIng laughIng laughIng laugh- laugh Ing a about out and she told me she was afflicted with a n dreadful disease THREATENS TO CUT THROAT I became very angry and in the quarrel that ensued she threatened to cut her throat with a R razor which she had in her stocking I started to struggle struggle- le with her an and while I was waa in a kneeling posture I reached up to a dressing table on which m my revolver was lying grabbed It and shot norI herI herI her nor I wiped my hancl hands packed lacked my grip and walked to the elevator ele I then left the tho hotel hoarded boarded a car to the tho union station tation where I Immediately took a atrain atrain atrain train for tar In Indianapolis After staying In Indianapolis until Friday noon I went to Fort Wayne ayne and from there to Huntington where the police got sot me meat ut at the home of at m my grandmother |