The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-29
George Redd nr, Aged21 Years, CO1feSSes to the Killing of Morris Greenberg in
 Hamden
WANTED TO GET MARRIED
Infatuated With Mrs. Leora Hudson, a PreposSeSSing Nurse in the Home of
 Leonard C. Lewis

George Bedding, aged 21 years, of 1Se
 Hazel street, 2 solicitor for the Inter
 national Correspondence School, mur
 dered Morris Greenberg in the ''west
 Woods os Hamden. last Saturday
 He confessed yesterday.
 Not until Coroner Mix makes pub
 lie the details of Readings confession
 will the young prisoners friends abandon their stand that the confes-
 rife third degree ordeal. His par
 ents and the young woman for whose
 love Bedding is supposed to have killed the fruit peddler to obtain money for marriage protested, today, that he was inn ocent.
 The police, on the other hand. are satisfied that Bedding told the truth when he admitted turing Greenberg to the lonely Hamden Woods riddling the peddler with bullets and robbing | the corpse of about $500. The pris- oner was taken to the scene of the crime and rehearSed every move, say | detectives Coroner Mix and the po- | lice deny the third degree accusation but it is known that Bedding was in | the hands of the police several hours | before the confession was announced. 1 During this time the authorities de- nied that they had even made an ar
 rest. The coroner's finding is expect
 ed, today.
 l Readings parents, denied access to | their boy, yesterday. at once hired | counsel and prepared to fight to the l last ditch. The prisoner today, pP0f6a6jS wi TPu65af tbe his 59eged 5 & be held without bail for preliminary hearing.
 He told Coroner NIX. after his ar rest by Detective Sergeant Henry J. Donnedy and Constable Frederick Sturtze. of how he Iured Greenberg to the deserted cart-path where the body was found and, standing on the very spot where the murder was commit ted, described how he had shot the young garden truck seller in the back and then riddled him with bullets as he lay on the ground begging for mercy.
 GOES OVER SCENE OF MURDER
 Bedding went over the whole scene of the murder with the police o#cers. yesterday afternoon, and exPlaiEed just how everything happened ''I can see Greenberg's ghost now,'' said the mur- derer, shuddering, as he acted out the 1 tragedy and he was shaking like a | leaf and panting wi dIy, as he showed | with an empty revolver how he stood l and pumped bullets into his victims | helpless body. WANTED MONEY TO
 GET MARRIED. |
 ''I was broke and needed money" w9S the way the young man explained | to the poi his motive for commit | ting the revolting crime.
 He had been attentive to a Mrs. | Ieora Hudson, a nurse in the home | of Leonard c. Lewis of 897 D'xwell | avenue, and sister of a prominent To- | cal doctor, where he had been living | for the last couple Of months, and wanted some money to get married.
 He thought that Greenberg h2d a big sum of money on his person and it was only to get his sum of money, which he thought would amount to s2O0 or $500, that he deliberately Iured murdered him in cold blood Red ding insisted to the police that he found upon searching Greenberg's rockets that the crime had been in vain and tEat he didn't find a cent
 This statement gives rise to constd- erable uncertainty, as the members of Or $500 on him, and bu. SIT was found when the body was searched.
 HAS HAD CHECKERED CAREER Young Bedding has had a rather ,heckered career and among other things, was for short time on tho La wren-e Mc-Gill- Shipn1an stock company, which ran in the old Bijou theatre here several years ago. He was also c aimed to be the author of several plays of the me1o-6ramat:c type, some of which he had sold to William 4. Brady, the New York thea .rical manager. In one of his plays. The Midnight Special, he appeared himself in the star role.
 WANTED TO BE IN LIIELIGHTI
 George Redding. who was 2 years Jld last June. is a member of one of the best known families in the lived while he attended grammar school. Bedding received his gram I"ar school educa ton at the Shelton avenue school and following his grad nation adopted a line of study that would enable hin to take up the thea -rical profession. Bedding was ] 1nown to be peculiar, from his school lays.
 He v-aS in+sraS+ad in op,o+a,, +1,. 1 -ricals in his school days and orga> lized several small plays. Three years ago. after he had worked in several : capacities he announced that play hat he had spent three years in writ ( ng, had been accepted by a New York I theatrical company. r Bedding went to New York and at T ! play house known there as the Elm l )ire the9 tre, made his debut behind he footlights in his own play. The i 'lay was entitled ''The Midnight Spe- a ,!al' and was a. creditable piece of V york, considering Redding's stage ex- a 'eriences. S
 WAS HERO OF HIS PLAY C Tn this play Bedding assumed the art of telegraph operato tor who ayes train from destruction. The with thrilling incidents that called for t lever acting. E There was much gun play in it. [ Bedding went through the y11av in u
  rom one or two managers Of minor G hea tres.
 He returned to New Haven some c me after this and announced tbat a Q had secured employment from 2 b moving picture company in N-ritina V Il connection with this york Bedding took up mail order usineSs. All this work was beina :. one by him while he lived with the h ,ewis family. He went to the Lewis k Ome following his return from New c. 'ork. Here he stayed with Leonard p ewis, helping the young farmer with F, is marketing and driving vege-, . able team from the farmhouse in - [amden, to the George street trading (, enter every morning ~ ARRIED REVOLVER ON WAGON il Bedding, according to his friends, Ii levitably concocted some wild l. chemes while alone on these tripsi l the night. to the center Of the city