| Show W to 11 00 w V MURDERS STRANGER TO COLLECT INSURANCE RICH BUtCHER I CONFESSES TO BRUT At CRIME Del D e lib i b era e rat tel el y Murders Stranger So Wife Can Get Insurance THEN HE RUNS AWAY Tells of Driving Around With Body In Automobile I EUREKA Calif Oct t a P i-CM- aP PI W I Alex A Kels wealthy butcher un- un until un until til iii recently believed to have been foully murdered on his ranch near Lodi Lodl Calif confessed today to SherIff W F of Stockton that he hired a 0 stranger from an employment agency September 12 killed him burned the body body and arranged for tor It to be bo Identified as aJI Kels so that the supposed widow of Kels could collect Insurance ap- ap approximating ap approximating I I dont don't know who It was I killed he was a perfect stranger to tome tome tome me I got him In Lodl Lodi tor for the pur pur- purpose pur- pur purpose pose 1051 Kels said The confession conCession as aaa made In an Interview lew wIth flecks alone after long grilling by mecks an and 1 others nr nn TRIeS SUICIDE The Tj confession came as the de- de denouement denouement de denouement of Ise a a I se hoax nearly two to weeks after altel clabo nita clabo-nita rate funeral sen ef Ices had been held at Lodl Lodi supposedly for tor Kels and 24 hours after arter Kels ZeIs arrest at Ku- Ku JuI I eka as the c to a man hunt of nearly a 11 1 week throughout the state tUe lot toi him Kels was as arr ted In a box car ton Monday day night II a as he was attempting to commit suicide by discharging a n rifle ride a with Ith hl hit his toes lIe He readily admitted ht hl his but pei slated In a denial that he had slain stain his companion com and burn burn- burned burned ed pd the bod body until he broke do do don n under last nights night's grilling Kels Kele asked what hat would happen h to his wife If it he confes confessed ed lie He aid ald she would soon oon give birth to toIL toI toa IL I bab and he would like to ha hate hae e the nus kept from her Iel He as aas promised that everything po 1 and be done to protect his Ce and then ho he asked to bo be alone aloneA A aith 1 Sheriff I s CLEAN UI UP I have always paid pal my bills and come dean elean and I nih will Ill come clean andI I no he commenced RI bald baid You fellow fello shaH a have hae got It all figured out prett pretty well I was heavily lIy Insured and I I thought that was as the best way oay to clean up I 1 figured my wife alto Ite would get the Insurance and I would nev- nev nevI r nev-r I t see her again I I figured that she a would get et over OYer the shock and be comfortably fixed Mexico and I planned to go to Mex- Mex Mex Me ico S Tho The man I killed was a per per per- er to me I got him In Lodi Lodl for that purpose I took him 0 oer er to my ranch n and nd ma made le a a pretense that the tho aind windmill In 1 was aas as out of order and et pit him out Inthe of ot the car Then I shot him In the back with aith a 32 calibre re- re re voh vol volver revolver er cr MIKES IU S sunn SUnT oi OP OF DEATH niri andI lie He groaned but fall tall and I shot eliot him again 1 t that lie he ml might ht still he be 1111 alIe e I got a heavy Iron bar and bit hit him ocr o the held heid a couple of times Then TK L I put him In the car car and put a lap robe over him and drove around for SE several eral hours I wont to Gait Galt and visited station a sen strike kc Gla- Gla eta sta tion Here and bought a supply of as Kels confession of hIs tallied closely with the WilY way the Stockton officials had It Jt fIgured ou All the time Kels Kers was Ith aith the tho dead bod body hardly yet cold he kept it in h It In the unde under the When the tank of his car was tilled filled at Gait Galt tho dead body aa was as lying In the bac laCK seat teat of the car under the robe Then I went back to the ranch continued ond and after dark I drove to a II a point about 15 IS miles away I II I It was as at the latter th Ih IA- IA IAl body l place where v 3 aid ald xu rt-xu the ne machine burned Were HE lit LIGHTS Sr STACK T Kels told hoy ho how ho placed the thein n t th j car ar against the bOdy I I III The re piled plied hy i I around It He told lold how he- he used a candle to time himself so ao that thai he b would o ho ample time to v set get ov aWay 01 before the n flames started After arranging the hay around tile ma mat an and 1 the i dead body of the stranger he candle told of hiding the In such sueh a 11 way that ahn It burned out It set get the hay bay lay Then he se so out afoot and walk walked d to Sacramento dI I Ills His III story etory at tM this point In nar rath 0 recounted hs his wander wander- Ings Inge wanderIngs gince I the murder told of his trip to Texas and back to bU San tUI I Francisco before he came camo here hero I holts Kelt maintained that ho never to con collect ct any ani of ot tile the InI 10 In- 1 Oil Page Je fc I I I RICH BUTCHER ADMITS CRI CRIME E i Continued Continued from Page One I money moncy himself but want ant want want- wanted wanted led ed his hie hi wife Ifo wit to get It for tor the tho pay pay- payment payment ment of his business obligations I Kels was kept under guard euard dur Our durling during ling tag ing the tho night Sheriff road and Assistant District Attorney Wood nard Wood Wood- Woodward ward ard retired Immediately oft after r the ad been obtained Kels Kois was wal prominent In the tho th com corn community community around Lodi and his funeral was attended by 2000 per per- persons perSons per person sons son The Tho Th grave V believed to be his a tae v heaped high with flowers SECRET I E INVESTIGATION o Soon after this Sheriff In conjunction with th the district s e off co at Stockton be- be began began be began gan a secret ecret Investigation of certain i certain tain tale circumstances The Th 1 l lin In the th burn burned ell has ha but three teeth th t th Kels was as Known t hale hD 0 a full set An analysis sla of showed the tho dead mans man's stomach no trace trac of the tho th sardines Kels was reported to Ila have hav e eaten a short holt time before the tho th charred body a tae found t ith the these points to ork nork on the tho Investigators Inv reconstruct reconstructed ed ed a II story tory which they said ald today tallied almost In every detail with the tho confession Kels Hole as vv via as destined to make mak makeR R hen hen a former resident of Lodl notified the tho th authorities that he had seen Kel Kels Keli In Rono Nevada the Inquiry seemed nearing cul- cul culmination cul culmination In the tho th next few doy days daysh ho he was as as reported seen at points In California and n a man of his de- de de description finally was s traced to Eureka The Tho Th namo name of the th stranger hired by Kels at nt the th Lodl Lodi employment ment has not agen agency y on September 12 been boen n learned Ho He H was tae os described as a Do man bet between een 60 GO and 60 0 years vear ear of age aeo Kols Keis was expected to bo be b started for Lodi Lodl today to tacO thO charge chorge of murder nn- nn |
