Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 10

SLAYER CONFESSES ASSAULT ON CHILD Baudy Pencil Found in Cellar Leads Suspect to Admit Crime. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 27.—A gaudy pencil, whose red, blue and gold stripes ccaxed 6-year-old Helen Sterler to hor- ror and death in a Brooklyn cellar, (orced & confession today from a colored that he attacked and strangled her. Lloyd Price, 22, sat grinning and smoking cigarettes 4 a police station before dawn today. Detectives had been questioning him for seven hours. “Naw, boss,” he said for the hun- dreth time. “I wouldn't do a thing like that.” Confesses Crime. “But look at this pencil,” a detective said softly. “It was found in the cellar. Your mother’s outside and she says it belonged to your dead father. She says it disappeared from her bureau drawer two days ago.” “Is my mother out there?” the sus- ect said. “Well, cap'n, I want to clear y conscience. Get some one in here ho can write and I'll tell you about it.” The confession said that Wednesday #fternoon he left his home and went 1t told how he approached Helen as she played on a sidewalk, showed her 25 cents and the pencil and “made he eyes brighten.” quotedas saving. “ana 1ed her nto s |Us S. CLERKS BLAMED hallway. As I was carrying her down the cellar stairs she started to struggle &nd I struck her in the face.” Has Reformatory Record. He carried the child to a dark end of |ghayw Says Employes Failed to Let £he cellar, the confession said, and as- ‘saulted her. Price said he lit a match, {%\:’nld a plece of clothes line, tied it it the girl's neck and crept away. One hundred policemen, spurred by & frightened and furioius populace in 'the dingy tenement district, ransacked the neighborhood for hours. Price was one of a number of suspects picked up. Police suspicions grew when they Enrnzd he had served two reformatory rms for attacks on boys. Helen was buried yesterday while gelatives supported her mother, in a state of near-collapse. Pharmacists to Honor Heads. BALTIMORE, January 27 (Special). =A testimonial dinner, under the joint auspices of all pharmaceutical organ- izations of Maryland will be tendered Dr. Robert L. Swain and Dr. John C. | Krantz, jr., on February 7, in honor ot their election as president and second vice president, respectively, of the American Pharmaceutical Association. | of honor tonight. In District Night Horse Show QUESTIONNAIRE TO TRY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN. lonnaire, which won the show championship of the Military Night exhibition at the Riding and Hunt Club recently and will attempt to dcplicate the ! BOVE is Mrs..William G. Hill schooling her chestnut hunter Questic feat tonight in the District night show at the Twenty-second and P : t streets ring. The winner of the most points during the Winter series out on the streets looking “for a child.” | will be awarded a 1932-33 championship tri-color at the end of the season. District Commissioner Luther Reichelderfer and other officials will be FOR INVITING ATTACK Public Know the Worth of Their Services. Speaking at the installation of offi- cers of Post Office Department Lodge 27 yesterday, John Arthur Shaw, presi- dent of the American Federation of Government Employes, said attacks on Federal workers are traceable to their failure in the past to acquaint the gen- eral public with the worth of their service. “They have more than ordinary | qualifications, have passed strict ex-| aminations and must face keen compe- tition to enter the service.” Mr. Shaw said. “Instead of impressing these facts | on the public mind, they allowed the | people to gain the i ion _during | prosperous years that Foderal emoloyes are not particularly competent or neces- sary, and are somewhat overpaid for| what they do. They should have known attacks would be made on them and ests CMac-Hay Ehoto, they should have begun an offensive. Instead. they have ailowed themselves to be placed on the defensive.” The policy of the American Federa- tion of Government Employes, Shaw promised, will be an offensive rather than a defensive one. ‘The following officers were installed: ‘Thonfas O. Fee, president; Paul A. Hines, vice president; Willam N. Lochnane, treasurer; Frank E. Gorely, secretary, and Edward J. Mahoney, sergeant at arms. HONORED BY LODGE Veteran Odd Fellow Feted at An- nual Session. George B. Johnston, who has at- tended every meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows for the last 42 years, was feted last night at the an- nual session of the Grand Lodge. He is to move to Fallon, Nev., shortly. 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