Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-28 | Page 1 | 'She Asked Me to Kill Her,' is Slayer's Plea

'SHE ASKED IE TO kill e; IS SOTS PLEA Suspect Confesses He x Murdered Mur-dered Telephone Operator j on Porch of Old House j i PONTIAC, Mich., April 28. Anson! Best, formorly of Flint, Mich., confessed con-fessed early this morning, according to Prosecutor Glenn C. Gillespie, that he killed Miss Vera Schneider, 18-year-old telephone operator, whose body was found early Sunday morning on the porch of the unoccupied dwelling. 1 Best, according to the prosecutor,! had been questioned throughout the1 night nnd broke down after being identified by a workman as having been seen washing his hands in -the1 Clinton river near the scene of the! crime a few minutes after its discovery. discov-ery. "She asked ma to kill her." Best was quoted as saying. He even declared, de-clared, according to the prosecutor, that ho met Miss Schneider for the! first time lato Saturday night. She even drew the handkerchiefs from his pockets and asked him to tie them together and place them about her neck Best said. Her only reason,' he said, was that she was "simply in the way of others." oo