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Show MURDERER GIVES HIMSELF UP TO POLICE OFFICERS LOS ANGELES, Cal., July S -Harry-! s N w of Glendale. Cal., walked into! police headquarters early today, in-1 formed detectives that there was a di ad woman in his automobile and he desired to give himself up as a mur-oerer. mur-oerer. He then led the officers to a sedan type car outside the station, where the body of Frieda J. Lesser, 21 years old. was found. New told the officers, according to a Statement of the police, he had quar-reled quar-reled with the young woman .at Top-1 anga canyon, several miles from the; city, when she refused to marry him,1 and had hot her. She had a bullet hole through the head. New was booked for murder and held without bond. "Wo didn't understand each other," said New, according to Detective Ser-geanl Ser-geanl D Davidson, "and so I shot her, and here I am. There she Is too," he added as he gazed at the dead girl. New, thirty years old. told the officers, of-ficers, according to their statement of his story, that he was engaged to Miss Lesser He said they became intimate and that she disclosed to him that there was to be a child; he said ho' urged her to marry him forthwith and when she refused he became furious at the thought that there might be; I another man, and shot her. oo |