Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1929, Page 7

BOY; 12, REPUDIATE DEATH CONFESSION Signed Statement So Detec- tives Would Let Him Go Home, He Says. - By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 7.—A 12- year-old boy, who signed a confession that he had killed a ‘i6-year-old widow, | told a judge in Children's Court yes-| terday the only reason he signed was | that the detectives told him he could go home to his mother if he did. H Testifying at his trial for juvenile | delinquency, the boy, Edward Moran, repudiated the “confession” absolutely. In it he was quoted as saying he strangled Mrs. Clara Hewes, widow of “Hewes, the magician,” when she | caught him stealing $3 from her dress- : er_top. ‘Mt Hewes, who lived in an apart- | ment whese the boy’s father worked as | ® janitor, was found dead in bed two ! weeks ago. After an investigation Ed- ward was taken to & police station for questioning. “They kept saying to me, ‘killed her, you killed her,’” the boy declared on | the witness stand yesterday. “I was! afraid and I wanted to go home to my | mother.” After he had been questioned a long time, he said, and assured that he could go if he confessed, he told them, “Yes, | I-killed her because she caught me | trying to steal $3." | The alleged confession described how Edward, a short time before the killing, showed a caller up to Mrs. Hewes’ room, and while there got the idea of return- ing and taking some money. He did return, he was quoted as saying, and seeing that Mrs. Hewes was in bed, | crept to the dresser. BOY’S AGE IS ISSUE | IN SLAYING TRIAL| £ SRR | Defense Says Youth Was Not 17! ' When He Killed Two to *See Them Kick.” By the Assoclated Press. EASTLAND, Tex., November 7.—The age of Clyde Thompson, youth accused o1 slaying two ofl field workers “just to | see them kick,” appeared today to be the paramount issue in his second trial on_a charge of first degree murder. Counsel for Thompson, who once was | ultl!mxfi to_death for the killing of Luélen and Leon Shook, brothers, but Avon a new trial on appeal, have indi- cated they will attempt to show the youth was not 17 yeais old when the erime was commiiled and should be idealt with leniently. Yesterday afternoon’s session was de- | voted almost entirely to a wrangle over | the date of the youth’s birth. The State finally entered in the records a statement by Thompson's father, taken f;nl‘n'xzchool reccrds, that he was born Thompson gazed stolidly around the courtroom duting the arguments yes- te.day., occasionally muttering to him- self. sanity, by a court ruling, also is an issue in the trial. 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