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Show TEACHER SM BY FARMER BOY i After Shooting Girl He Is Captured in Attempt to Hold Up Bank NORTHWOOD, Iowa. May 4. Con-tendinfe Con-tendinfe that his sweetheart. Mlns R-! R-! becca Nelson of N'orthwood. Jilted him after tht-ir wedding date hud been sot. ;Ii-wln Benker. 21-year-old farmer boy of Manly, shot and killed the girl In the doorway of her school house four miles west of Munly. while pupils who I witnessed the shooting fled through I the windows Following the shooting. Licnker fled in his automobile to Manly w here he ,made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the Farmers' savings bunk. He j was captured when the bullet he was aiming at Cashier H. J. Schulle fallod I to explode. shortly after his arrival In the Jail here, licnker according to County Attorney At-torney Roy BOBWOrth, confessed that the shooting was Intentional but that .he was under the influence of "rnoon-I "rnoon-I shine" liquor. Benker In his confession confes-sion to County Attorney Bosworth, said he "didn't mean anything" by his alleged attempt tb hold up the bank. The growing belief that Benker was temporarily Insane when he did th shooting is believed to preclude the likelihood of mob violence which appeared ap-peared to be threatening earlier In the 1 day. Miss. Nelson wus one of the most popular girls of this northern Iowa town. She had been teaching school since the death Of her father In an automobile accident lost fall. |