Show BODIES SOUGHT I DECADE AFTER DISAPPEARANCE 1 IN I N CALIFORNIA Texas Wholesale Slayer Slaver Tells Where to Dig for Remains CONFESS CONFESSES S CRIME Kills Wife and Her lier Three Adopted Children WHITTIER Calif FebBy Feb Gy 1 l By ByThe CyThe The Associated Press Press-A A A ot of clay to today stood between the police and the tIle possible discovery of lore tour inore In the mur murder der career o ot George e J now aVo ailing execution In Texas ls for tor the th slaying of ot hl hi hil wife and eight step-children step there Has Has- Hasell sell ell according to a a leHer itter received from Sheriff Lea Ward of ot Walker county Texas confessed recent recent- recently recently recently ly that ten years year ago apo he ho killed I a woman with whom ho lie was living here and her met three adopted chil- chil children chil children dren then burn their bodies beneath the house house- house Guided bs by bJ a a chart hart prepared by Hassell police in relays last night had dug their way through hard bard clay to a a point which they estl- estl estimated esti estimated mated to be bo within two feet Ceet or of o where the th bodies should be bo found When found When the digging was concluded a 1 for the tho th nIght a pit five feet teet deep 7 and five feet long had hail been made Because of ot the th cramped quarters r only one man Is permitted to dig tIt bt a a time t roun DISAPPEAR R 1 Authorities expressed 1 the belief beliet that the th victims of ot lIa sell ad- ad adS ad admitted S may have havo been Mrs lIra Marie Vogel Vo el formerly of ot Pitts- Pitts Pitts-bure Pitts t burg and her three thre adopted chil children dren who disappeared from hero here hereunder hereunder under mysterious circumstances In 1917 Hassell In his purported con con- conCession con confession Cession said eald hi he WIlS was living here H alien ne lie murdered tue woman with whom ho he was living over an argument as to whether ho should go Into the army This was short short- shortly shortly shortly ly after acter the th United States Slates en- en entered entered en entered the orl World 1 war and the se- se selective e draft ws about to be bt en- en enforced en enforced forced lIe H said he ho choked and clubbed Mrs Baker to death and thelt killed the sleeping chil- chil children children chil children dren Mrs Myrtle Lark a neighbor yesterday told the th police of ot the th strange trance disappearance of ot Mrs Ba- Ba Baker Baker Ba Baker ker and her children Baker as ashe she I he was known here bere told neigh neigh- neighbors bors bors that his wife had been called to San Francisco by the death ot of ota ofa ofa a sister CRAWLED WIED UNDER HOUSE Mrs Lark said ald she saw Baker carry a large lars and apparently heavY trunk to the th garret on the th day that the th woman and children were first missed At night she saw him hInt carrying other small bundles Into the tho garage Dur Dur InS Ing the th days which followed Ba- Ba Baker Ba Da Baker ker was noticed crawling under the house throwing out dirt and rubbish Later Mr Lark observed ed Baker digging a large hole hoi in the floor of his garage A fe few months later Baker brought another woman and child to live with him She w was s In- In Introduced introduced In Introduced to Mrs Lark as imis bis housekeeper Soon after acter that tinker Daker disappeared Several years after acter the tho disappearance of the tb Baker family au- au authorities au authorities here hero were asked to search tor for Mrs Vogel Voel The re- re reQuest request re request quest came cam from front Mrs Gertrude Gertrud Hoffman Hortman ot of a sister who said eald she be had bad not heard from Mrs Vogel In 11 years ears No trace of the missing woman was found nt at the tho time |