New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-04-16
AN OUTLINE OF his A Full STORY


d WdIIAuG Was lSSu6u TOT u1IQ III The
police court and he was arraigned
there at four o'clock. He waived an
examination and was commit ted TO Jail
without bail. To-day he will be
brought into the recorders court and
asked to plead guilty. # he does So,
the self-confessed murderer will be on
his way to the ackson penit ntiary by
noon, to spend the rest of his life. BY:
His confession is an awful story of
impending disgrace and finally muir
der as means of averting it. He adj
mitted that there had been illicit re-
lations between Miss Jennett and him
self for the past two years, and said
it was the result of these relations that
led him to kill her. The girl was in a
delicate condition. She refused to go
to a lying-in hospital, as he wished her
to, and demanded that he abandon his
family and leave the city with her.
Wednesday night they met to discuss
her trouble and decide on some action.
Miller says that Wednesday afternoon
he decided to kill her if she refused to-
do as he wished, and he therefore car
ried small Ratchet with him to their
rendezvous. They met and walked out
Thirteenth street, talking it over, and
finally sat down on the sidewalk. Miss
Jennett renewed her demands that
Miller leave the city with her. He says
he told her it was. impossible, but she
still insisted. ssBy that. time I was
pretty near crazy" he said, .'the i'm
pulse seized me, and while she was still
talking I reached into my overcoat
pocket, drew out the Ratchet and
struck her" -.s.~ -..-,,.' ,4.y~4:$
It was impossible to induce him to
60 into the details Of the butchery. He.
told Of putting the Ratchet back in
his pocket, of seeing his victim
stretched upon the sidewalk in her life
blood and then of his walking home by
the most direct route. Reaching home,
he said he threw the Ratchet on the
ground in the woodshed, that he then
went in at the back door of the kitchen,
washed the blood off his hands at the
penstock, and then. going into the din
ing-room, greeted his wife and Mrs:
Shoemaker, a visitor, for whom he
made tea and prepared a lunch, the
three afterward eating and joking to-
gether. .c ~
Boy Oonfesses to Patricide.
Paw Paw, Mich, April 12.-The ex-
animation of Glenn France, aged Is,
who, with his mother and two sisters,
was arrested at Manton, Mich, Thurs
day, on the charge of having killed
Caleb France, the boys father, was
held here Friday before Justice Row
land. The members of the family
were arrested on evidence gathered
:, by private detective which tended to
show that Caleb France, who was sup
posed to have committed suicide on
February last was murdered by his
SON. The officer exhibited statements
purporting to have been signed by
Mrs. Effie B. Forman and Lulu France,
sisters of Glenn, that the boy had shot
his father. On the witness stand Fri
day the two sisters swore that Caleb
France had become angry because
Mrs. Forman, his daughter, proposed
! going north to join her husband and
that she intended taking her baby
with her. Mrs. France sided with her
daughter and .thereupon France
knocked his wife down on the bed
and began to choke her, saying he
would kill her. Glenn then came into
the room and shot his ia ther, who died
almost instantly. The boy afterward
confessed to the court that he did the
shooting. At the time of the tragedy
it was given out by the family that
France had shot himself. III. sxS !