Show seventeen year old spokane lad confesses to most horrible crime P aneer merchant falls V ct m to H s own son who slew H m in hopes of securing a few dollars wh ch he thought H s father was carrying spokane wash the body of james F sloane a pioneer merchant of this city was found behind a pile of rocks in an alley near his home on sixth avenue near stevens street great gashes on his head showed that he had been murdered apparently with a hatchet and a trail of blood led from the alley to mr sloane s home hinves ti gation proved that he was murdered in his room shortly after midnight his body being loaded into a wheelbarrow trundled to the alley and dumped against the rocks sidney sloane the 17 year old son of the murdered man was taken into custody by the police shortly after the body was discovered at first he pro tested complete innocence but broke down and confessed the murder he said he slew his father with an axe in the hope of getting which he thought his father was carrying the murdered man had been one of kane s leading merchants for years being the senior member of the sloane paine company |