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Show 1 SALT LAKE CONFESSES HE KILLED AN OLDMAN Salt Lake. Aug. 2S. In a frcnr.y of remorse and drunken delirium, Steve Isrnel, a Welshman, 21 jearc of ago. after sunenderlng himself to tho police po-lice last night, made a fearful 'confession 'con-fession of having brutally murdered an aged Jewish merchant of N'orta Topeka', Kan , moro than a year ago. According to nn Associated Press dispatch this morning Benjamin F Plait, an aged Jewish clothing merchant, mer-chant, was found murdored in bin store in North Topeka, on February 22, 11)11. ( While making his confession Israel writhed in an agony of mortal terror and begged in shrieking tones of deadly feai to be protected from the vengerul shade of hl6 victim, which he imagined was pursuing him. "I killed that Jew I murdored him. I hit him on the head with a monkey wrench three times and the third time ho died I killed him In his store in North Topeka, Kan., and 1 robbed him." Talks In Delirium. Such was the hysterical declaration of Israel, alias Harry .Nelson, while in a fit of delirium tremens at police headquarters la3t night at 11 o'clock. Overcome by the effects of drink, and haunted by tho horror of a crime real or fancied Isrnel pave himself up to Pntrolman Henry, Betz on the street last night. While being booked book-ed at the station he shrieked iu terror ter-ror for bomo one to protect him from the cravliug things conjured by his delirium-racked brain. Suddenly his fear took a new aspect. as-pect. "Don t let that Jew hit me," he yelled. "I killed him, but don't let him hit me.'' A telegram of inquiry was immediately immedi-ately seut to the police of Topeka last night by Captain John Hem pel. At first Israol gnve the name of Harry Nelson. Later he delcared It to be an alias and Steve Israel to be his correct name. With drawn features,, fea-tures,, frothing mouth and horror-widened horror-widened eyes as he writhed upon the floor or clung with fearful clutch to the wire grating and looked through at Desk Sorgoant Lenyl. came the whole ftory, repeated again and again with absolute conformity as to detail. de-tail. He answered lucidly all questions put to him by the officers, pleading In a terrorized troble between answers lo be protected from the attack of tho Jew whom he had murdered. Tells of Robbery. According to the story of the wretched man he secured twenty watches and S1S0 from the store of the man whom he declared to have been his victim. Not during his wildest wild-est ravings could he be tangled In anv particular of his story. Onrc ho corrected cor-rected a remark of a bystander who used the name Topeka, insisting that It was in North Topeka where he had murdered an I robbed the Jew from whose avenging shade he sought protection. |