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MAN CONFESSES
He KILLED BOT
Breaks Down When He is Pos !
lively Identified.
WAS Seen With VICTli|
PIaymates of Dead Boy Face Murderd
and Tell Police of Attempted Grim,
and Threats.


and Threats.
Philadelphia, Sept. 80. = JOSEF
O'Brien, thirty-six years old, boilel
maker at BaldWin'S Locomotive Workl
is the slayer of seven-year-old 1sr1
Goldman, 1870 Callowhill street, WING
bruised and battered body, stripped
clothes, was found early on Satur
morning on the golf links of
Whitemarsh Country club, near Ches|
nut Hill.
O'Brien confessed after he had bed
confronted by Frank Melon, conduct
on the trolley car on which O'Bril
took Israel to Chestnut Hill FridA
night. He declared he had killed Israe
because the boy had called his moth4
a bad name"
Melon, the conductor, went to cit
hall and after he had talked with Cal
tain of Detectives Cameron for a fey
minutes, O'Brien, haggard and worl
was brought before them. Melon idel
titled him as the man who was wit
Israel on the car Friday night.
Captain Cameron fixed O'Brien wit
a searching glance. The man shran.
back, his eyes staring, his hand
clutching wildly at his hair.
well, O'Brien, what have you
say to that?" the captain said to hin
O'Brien was silent a moment. Then b
spoke.
81 did it," he faltered. 81 might q
well tell you. I'mf the man."
why did you do it?" Captain Can
eron demanded.
well, it was this way" the man e.
planned, stumbling over his words.
met that boy at Eighteenth and ca
lowhill streets on Friday evening.
said, Hello, kid When he answere!
me he called my mother bad name.
Il told the boy to come with nd
First we boarded a Pulaski avenue CO
in Nineteenth street. I found that cs|
was the wrong one. We got off, Her
O'Brien stopped, half staggered, an
felt weakly about for chair. d
Go on" Captain Cameron CON
manded.
I'VE went over to Twentieth stred
and go on Hunting Park avenue c&l
We charged at Germantown aven93
and again at Chelten avenue, and y
we stopped there l got the b
soda. Then we took car to- J
Line"
Again O'Brien hesitated, cor
ing fear evident ip his shal<
ing.
Don't be hard on me-. CAP b
pleaded, tears yelling into his sdnksl
eyes.
60 on, tell you," Captain Camerot
again commanded.
"We walked up the Reading pike1
the wretched man mumbled. Il said 4
the boy, What did you mean by cell
ing my mother that name?' He didni
answer. 1 told him to take on hi
shoes and stockings. He did. Them
stripped the rest of his clothes off
and II
well, what happened them" CAP
tain Cameron shot at him.
Il choked the boy, and l beat himf
O'Brien gasped.
Did you choke him to death ?" sCarl
sron asked.
81 don't know" the man answered
niserably. Il don't know whether 4
was dead or not when 1 left him."
The police, before the confession
O'Brien, summoned four or five boy!
to the city hall to tell what they knoll
Of the actions of the man. Among TIL
boys were Leon Risso, seven year
old; Simon Goldstein and Daniel Phil
lips. 4
Risso, the police say, declared t1f
O'Brien had induced him to aco1
pany him to Chestnut Hill sen
weeks ago. He said O'Brien had al
tackled him. The other boys declared
the police say, that O'Brien had triet
to get them to go out with him, bu'
they had refused. Similar statement'
weer made by other boys.
The police say that O'Brien woul)
walk along the street, select boy
lift the cap from his head. When
boy would follow and attempt tc
cover his headgear, according to-
police, O'Brien would invite him f6fys
ride, saying he would buy him cand7
or soda water