Show murder charged without VI victim cum fail to find body of boy men are indicted for killing wooster cr ohio first degree murder indictments against charles ilan hun dab and earl in connection with the mysterious disappearance of four acar earold ear old melvln melvin horst were returned recently by the wayne county grand brand jury despite the fact the boys body has never been found the only basis for the alio indictments Is that ilan nan in ono one of his many statements confessed that he fie killed melvln melvin and charged that conold disposed of the body the grand jurys action in returning the murder indictments without li elvIns body bodi having been found and without a n scintilla of direct evl dince other than hannahs questionable confession to indicate a crime tins has been committed probably lias has few parallels felsin in legal annuls annals may scare prisoners voting of the murder indictments further farther complicating an amazing and tangled mystery was regarded as a criterion of the sentiment in wayne county against hannah and conold unless At elvins body Is found the prosecution itself has little hope that the murder charges will stand but the indictments were returned it was reliably reported on the belief this action would scare the two defendants d into giving more information the authorities handling the investigation ti tl endeavored to administer Lu twilight llight sleep a drug supposed to make a L person unwittingly tell iho fhe truth to conold ile he restated resisted the ef orts forts and the potion was not administered ered Twili twilight glit sleep was administered unsuccessfully to hannah the indictments against conold and hannah were returned after the grand jury had heard the testimony bof ot eighteen witnesses many of thon them county and local officers conducting tho the investigation into the disappearance of the m four year old orrville boy the night of december 27 1028 the murder and child stealing indictments were voted without recommendation mend men dation atlon of the prosecution prosecutor graven said anti and were based on the evidence the prosecutor and his aads assembled isiace melvins disappearance pe arance and in the month hannah find and conold have been held in the evayne way county jail for questioning graven helas lie was not greatly surprised that the murder indictments were returned 1 I merely Presen presented feil afie evidence and the grand jury saw fit to vote against both men the prosecutor said bald 1 I believe we have plenty of precedent for returning such indictments even though the body has not been found Is an unusual case we lye are going about it in an unusual way with unusual results reits 11 while the plans for the trial of counah and conold go forward both will remain the center of the investigation seeking to daie determine amine Bl elvins ultimate fate which the prosecutor admitted was apparently no nearer disclosure that it had eyer been authorities will continue to question hannah conold his has refused to answer questions unless hi his s atto attorneys imers are present I 1 because of the murder indictments both will be held field hall bull sin since ce they were held to thy the grand jury on charges of stealing three UKO ago they lc have remained in jail in lieu of 1000 bond each based on confession the evidence on which hannah and conold were indicted on both counts to Is reported to have been largely clr cir the option being ilan mort mo recent concession which was na presented to the grand jury by graven tn in this confes confession slon said taint liff ills ten year beir old son BOH junior brought melvin horst florat to the lie garage enrage where conold kept cur car and that there lie he I lannah killed the hoy boy by ing him over the lie licad head with wl tb a scant ling ile weri te ted d burled the body hut but every place hannah indicated ns na the burial spot failed to hold any trace of if the body tills this confession like two tivo previous lous ones was repudiated by hannah lie he said bald the satisfied with the flie truth so BO I 1 told them clesto lies to get some sleep llan naha first sint statement ement was ob tallied by the prosecutor a month aro ago otter after junior under rigorous questioning tio ning had told the story of taking melvln melvin to canowa Con gain garnre e on cleveland avenue in orrville hannah then related that conold killed the missing bo and burled tits his body the night after hannah made this statement conold was questioned in for nearly twelve hours lie he apparently patently ly broke after that siege slag and dictated to mayor maor A U of 0 orrville oville a terse statement without the slightest detail that hannah had killed the boy in the garnge |