The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-16
CONFESSION OF
HORRIBLE CRIME
Nathan swartz ls Guilty Of Brutal
Murder and so Told His Father
Who Suggested
Suicide.
MOST DRAMATIC SCENE
Old Man Appeared Before Grand Jury
Where Little Victims Grief
i Stricken Mother Had
! Testified.
MOST DRAMATIC SCENE

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, July 16.-That Nath-
an Swartz. confessed TO his father
that he was the slayer of little IL
year-old Julia Connors, was admitted
by the father, Daniel Swartz In the
grand jury ante-room today. He sta
ted that his son told him that he was
responsible for the child's death the
Sunday morning that her body was
found.
Il told him that the best thing he
could do was to go out and kill him-
self and save the family further dis.
grace said ~ old man, "and am
certain that he did So"
A score of witnesses we're called
by the Jury including the coroner and
his physician, police officers, who
/ worked on the case, all OF the mem
i bers OF the Swartz family and Mrs.
Connors, mother OF the dead girl. 1t
i was explained by the police that un-
less an indictment was In existence
against Swartz 1t would be hard to
extradite him II he was arrested in
another state.
4 The old mans dramatic statement
/ followed a scene unparalleled in the
criminal courts building. He ana
members Of his family were sitting in
Z the ante-room Of the grand jury room
when Mrs Connors, mother of the.
4 murdered child. was brought in. She
!, was garbed in the deepest black and
! plainly was on the verge OF a col
/ lapse AS she was taken into the
: grand jury room with the box contain
, ing the blood stained garments that
8 had been torn from the body of her
: outraged child, the mother became
! hysterical and her cries could be
J. heard all through the building.
Old man Swartz sat In his chair as
II rooted to it. His face became ash
. en- pale Finally the tears began to
flow down his cheeks and when the
heart-broken mother was led from the
4 room he called to Assistant District
7 Attorney Mott who presented
: the case to the grand jury and admit
ted that his son who had served a
prison term for an outrageous assault
| on another child, and who was still
h on parole for that crime, had admit
J. ted to him that he had committed the
e crime.
/. Gle told me what he had DONE
t. said the old man. "and told him
It there was nothing for him to do but
i. kill himself. I told him that he did
el not deserve to live and that he should
q keen further disgrace from all of us
n by killing himself believe he did
So I certainly hope that he has
n Members Of the family were then
q called to tell their stories to the
n grand jury, the old man repeating the
a. confession OF the boy murderer, as It
ic was given to him by the conscience
stricken youth.
The nude and mutilated body OF ~
year old Julia Connors was found In
4 a vacant lot in the rear Of East 1870
G. street between Third and Fulton Ave.
,r nues in the Bronx on Sunday, July Z
le The child had been missing since the
e. night before There were forty-one
It. stab wounds In the body, twenty-one
n of which we're in her back. In spite
II of the terrible nature of her Injuries
IT, the child had lived for hours.
a She was still alive when found bu'
1t could only whisper that "a man die
IL
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