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Show POLICE CLEAR UP MURD ERMYSTERY Body of Mrs. Millard Burned in furnace of Vancouver Home. KILLED BY CHINESE Servant Confesses to Horrible Crime Killed Mistress and Cut Her in Pieces. Vancouver, B. C, April 4. Jack Kong, the 17-year-old Chinese boy, suspected of the murder of Mrs. Charles J. Millard, confessed today that he committed the crime. The boy told the police that at breakfast Wednesday, Mrs. Millard had found fault with him. He struck her with a chair and stunned her. and then choked her to death, he said. Later he look her body to tho basement, base-ment, where he cut it up and placed it in the furnace, piece by piece. He hid the clothing in order to convince Mr. Millard that his wife had gone out in the morning. The skull and other bones have been found in the chimney beyond the furnace, fur-nace, the police said. The police said the Chinese confessed con-fessed that Mrs. Millard reprimanded him because the porridge had been burned at breakfast. The boy said she ordered him to make a fresh dish of porridge, but he objected, saying that he wished to go to school. Mrs. Millard made some remark to the effect that. she would hare to cut his ear off to make him" obey her better, bet-ter, and he said he then seized a chair and struck her down. He used a carving knife to cut off her legs and arms, and soon he built a big fire and put the body In the furnace, the confession reads. nn |