Show WOMAN KILLED KILIM it HYAN MRS AURORA HEDGES A ADMITS 1 I T KILLING PEDDLER declares ryan attacked her and she killed him una ded after which she feared to give herself up on sunday mrs aurora hodge a woman 19 years of age whose home is s in denison iowa walked into the police station at grand rapids mich and declared that she wished to give herself up saving that on july alth she had shot and killed william X ryan a peddler near salt lake city mrs hodge who claims to be 19 years of age says that she had left her husband in california and came to ogden here she met ryan who engaged her to accompany him in his travels over the country and act as his bookkeeper when near salt lake city she claims he made an assaul upon her when she shot him in self de defense ferise she intended to give herself ap up to the police but her nerve failed her and she took what money she could find upon ryans person and bought a ticket for denison iowa where her brother and foster parents live she claims she told her brother what she had done and he advised her to surrender herself to the au an hori ties or he would tell them him belt pelf she then left denison and went 0 chicago where through an em agency ane secured a post uon tion as waitress at a hotel at spring lake near grand rapids mich then ene made up her mind to surrender and went to grand rapids tor for that purpose this is the woman s story but it Is not credited by the police although they believe she was implicated in the murder on the afternoon of tuesday july the body of william X ryan a spectacle vendor was found in a wll wil low thicket two miles east ol 01 murray the body was in advanced stages of decomposition and presented a horri ble sight it had been carefully wrapped in blankets and in tion showed shored that death had resulted at least forty eight hours before the discovery was mas made that murder had been committed was apparent Eil evidences dences of the crime were found in profusion the ped diers dog was fastened to the tongue of the wagon his horses were teth ered near by the body was found lying face downward when the blankets were removed a deep gash was found in the mans man s bead head the physician however eald said that this wound did not cause his death his legs were bound with a whipcord his ills hands were fastened rigidly with a cord while a strap encircling his was bound tightly around his neck it developed that the crime was committed at midnight july alth neighbors in the vicinity of the corpse declared that they had seen been a woman with the wandering merchant on the day before the crime was corn com bitted it is believed mrs hodge had assist ance in the crime and fu u ther devel are expected she will be brought bad to salt lake city at ince once |