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Show Admits Throwing Sons Into River Father Gives Reason Lack of Home for Them. COSHOCTON, OHIO. Warren Patterson, a slender 31-year-old machinist who, Prosecutor Russel E. Lyons said, admitted in a signed statement that he stood on a bridge and dropped two of his four sons into the Mohican river because he had no home for them, was held in jail here. One of the boys, Larry, 1V4 years, drowned, and Lyons said he would file a murder charge later. The other, Raymond, seven years crawled from the stream, wandered most of the night in a cold rain and finally was picked up by a motorist, Lyons said. The two other boys, Gene and Glenn, eight-year-old twins, were put out of their father's automobile a half mile from the bridge and left with a blanket under a tree. They stayed there 16 hours in a rainstorm rain-storm before being found, the prosecutor prose-cutor added. Lyons said that Patterson told him and Sheriff Jay Abbott in the statement that he intended 'to push the twins into the river too, but "hadn't the heart" to go on after dropping the first two. The story unfolded, the sheriff said, after Charles Fessler, an oil driller, brought Raymond to Abbott's Ab-bott's home and listened to the boy's bizzare account of being dropped into the creek along with his infant brother. A search disclosed the child's body, Abbott said. Abbott said Patterson later was found asleep in the rear seat of his automobile near an Ashland (Ohio) machine shop where he was employed, em-ployed, and was brought here. The sheriff said Patterson related this story: He left Ashland about 11 a. m. with the children in his automobile auto-mobile and drove to Wooster, Ohio, where he had a few drinks. Later he started for Coshocton, arriving ar-riving near Mohican river about midnight. He told the children to lie down and sleep. Later he awoke the baby and Raymond, took one under each arm, walked onto a bridge and dropped them into the water. "I made up my mind to get rid of them all, but I lost my nerve," Abbott Ab-bott quoted the father as saying. |