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Show ADMITS CHILD'S MURDER. Body of Missing Six-year-old Girl Hidden Hid-den in Coal Pile. Chicago. Thomas Fitzgerald, 39 years old, and married, confessed Sunday Sun-day to the police that he killed little Janet Wilkinson, six years old, a neighbor's neigh-bor's child, last Tuesday by strangling her. He accompanied the police to his home and showed tbeni where he had concealed the body beneath some coal under the basement steps, and it was recovered. The solution of the mystery, which has stirred Chicago as few police cases have aroused the populace, came this morning when Fitzgerald .after five sleepless days and nights, constantly kept under a grueling examination and never-ceasing scrutiny, called for an oificer and made his confession. The authorities acted quickly. Although Al-though Fitzgerald has been termed a 'moron" by the police, the criminal machinery was to proceed as usual. Coroner Hoffman quickly selected a jury and opened the inquest. Fitzgerald was an employee at the Virginia, a residential hotel. He lived in the neighborhood. In the same building lived the Wilkinson family. Janet was one of four children. |