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Show BOY CONFESSES TERRIBLE CRIME Beat High School Teacher on Head, Stabbed Her With Knife and Dragged Body Away. Little Falls, N. Y March 30. Jean Gianinl, under arrest for the murder of Miss Lydla Beecher, the young school teacher, who was found beaten and stabbed to death In the woods near Poland, has confessed his .uullt, according to District Attorney Farrell. Gianinl said in the confession, which was made Saturday, and disclosed today, to-day, that he had aBked Miss Beecher to go with him to see his parents in regard to his reinstatement in the Poland high school, from which ho had been expelled at the young woman's wom-an's instigation. Before their arrlv al, Miss Beecher became frightened, he said, and insisted on returning. Gianinl declares he then hit hor with a wrench which he had concealed in his pocket and knocked her down. Then he beat her, stabhed her several sev-eral times with a knife, dragged hor body into the bushes, went homo and w'ent to bedi oo |