Logan Republican | 1914-01-22 | Page 3 | Father Commits Horrible Crime

I FATHER COMMITS I HORRIBLE CRIME M Miner Strangles Three Infants Born I fo Daughter; Bodies Are Found M in the Garret Central City, Colorado, Jhn. 20. Daniel Williams, 52 years old, a miner, min-er, was arrested today charged with the murder of three Infants whoso bodies woro found on September 25, 1913, In tho garret of a cottage at Black Hawk occupied by Williams and bis daughter, Roaolla, 30. Tho arrest followed the returning of Indictments, against Williams In the Gilpin county coun-ty district court. Samuel W. JohnBon, district attorney, attor-ney, stated that Kosclla Williams had confessed that rho was tho mother of tho Infants an 1 that her father was their father, ho said, according to at-clared at-clared according to ttho district attorney at-torney that Bhe had seen her father strangle each baby to death Immediately Immedi-ately after it was born. The murders according to the allege confession, were committed in 1801, 19u3 and 1908.