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Show NURSE MAKES CONFESSION. Says Physician Mutilated Body of Girl and Placed It In Trunk. San Francisco. Aftor two days and nights of silence, Mario Messcr-schmidt, Messcr-schmidt, the nurse held in detinue since Friday night In connection with the death of Eva Swan, following tho finding of tho girl's body bbneath tho cement flooring of the basement of a vacant house, confessed to tho police on Sunday that sho had knowledge of tho operation performed by Dr. James Grant upon Miss Swan and that she attended the girl after tho operation. Tho confession states that "Robert Thompson, known as Dr. Grant," packed tho girl's body Into a trunk, first cutting off tho legs at tho ankles; that Grant discussed tho burial of tho body with tho nurse and spent two nights at tho house where It was found. Dr. Grant was taken Into custody with tho nurse, and late Sunday Paul Parker, former Stanford athlete and who lived In tho house whero Miss Swan roomed, was taken to the pollco station and placed In detinue. |