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Show 'Sissy' Rebels, Slays Ota, 11, Admits Crime Garroted Eoy With Leather Belt; Tells FBI How He Planned Deed. NEWARK, N. J. A 14-yenr-old parochial school student was accused ac-cused of slaying an 11-year-old companion. com-panion. The FBI said the youth admitted garroting his pal with a leather belt in an abandoned warehouse ware-house because he wanted to prove himself "no sissy." The FBI said the boy, Walter Smigelski, signed a statement telling tell-ing how he planned to kill someone to assert his superiority in the face of his mother's continual demands that he wash dishes, dust furniture and do assorted household chores. The body of the younger boy, John Preston Jr. of Kearny, was found in an old warehouse, in nearby Harrison, Harri-son, a leather belt tightened about his neck and several gashes on his chest and wrist. The statement quoted Smigelski as saying he selected, the Preston boy as his victim because he was certain he was weaker than himself and could be subdued easily. The FBI said the boy admitted the slaying after he had been brought to headquarters here by his father, Walter Smigelski, a lathe operator, whose suspicions had been aroused by a copy of a kidnap ransom note found by Mrs. Smigelski in the pocket in one of the boy's trousers. Demands $1,000. A similar note, crudely scrawled and asking $1,000 ransom, had been received by the victim's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Preston Sr., in the mail some 12 hours after the boy was reported missing. "If you want your son back alive you get 1,000 one thous.," the note said. "Bring a clean shirt, pants, shoes underware and a good supporter a small one that will fit him tight he has a slight case of rupture we did it he'll have worst if you don't do as 1 we say don't trust anyone wrap everything nice in a paper bag the 1,000 and clothes you see a boy stand on First st. and Sussex st. I there will be a boy there he'll know J nothing he just a hired boy do ask ; any questions give it to him don't go to the police or we'll kill him just do as we say cross up (two scrambled lines followed, crossed out and illegible) one one of these five words and you h.ave his body for nothing. "Don't ask the boy any question and give it to him at 4 o'clock Monday Mon-day afternoon four bells p. m. and you have Jackie back at six p. m. no funny stuff." On the other side of the paper was the following: "You know the byby shirt is just an underware shirt. Do as we say or else." Father Accuses. The father of the Smigelski boy said he waited for his son as he came out of church and confronted him with the kidnap note found by his mother. The boy told conflicting stories, police said the .father told them. As a result the father took the boy with him to FBI headquarters headquar-ters here. S. K. McKee, New Jersey FBI chief, said the boy first insisted he met a masked man who asked that he help in the kidnaping of the Preston Pres-ton boy. The youth broke down under un-der questioning, however, and told the story of his long resentment over household chores and his plan to prove that he was no sissy. |
