Show CRIPPLE CRIPPLE- I PLANS PLUMS ORGY OF GRIMES CRIMES CONFESSION STATES NEPHEW WAS HYPNOTIZED BY UNCLE KILLS STEPMOTHER STEPMOTHERS Other Othe M Murders S Were Conceived and Wills Willi Drawn In Favor of Slayers Slayer Accused Famed as al Astrologer Ore Plans rians for the deliberate slaying of prominent residents real resi dents of Coos COOl county v with Ith their families families lies were laid by Arthur COTA 41 47 41 a crippled astrologer according to his reported confession to authorities here With his year old nephew Alton Covet Covell he bela Is held in the county jail because of Ms his indictment by the grand Jury on a murder charge in connection with the death of Mrs Fred Covell September 2 2 last The The nephew it Is 18 said by by the au an authorities has confessed that he killed his st stepmother r while under the influence InfluenCe Influence In fluence of his crippled uncle The confession it is declared tells Jells how the youth by the den man crept up behl behind id his step stepmother mother mother- on the morning of September 2 while lie was at work in her kitchen hitchen hitch kitch en and clamping an soaked ammonia cloth face fact smothered her to death with the fumes Then the confession describes how the youth still noting acting under the overpowering will of his uncle carried his stepmother stepmother step step- mother to her bed there arranged her clothes BO so as as to remove any signs of at a struggle gle and carried th dead body to the front of the house Famed as s an astrologer throughout the Pacific coast Arthur Jovell according according ac ac- ac I cording to his purported admissions and to the confession of t the the nephew ephew based his schemes for tot the killing hilling of Mrs frs Covell and for wiping out at least a dozen docen persons of ot Coos county upon the stars star |