South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-24
Harold UIIery. II Years Old. in
Second Confession. Saws
Murder of Former South
Bend Woman Was Planned.
DECIDED To INITIATE
DRUG STORE ROBBERS
Il Kept Thinking About the
Fink Case Until Determined
TO Try Something Like It,"
He Tells Sheriff.

NILES, Feb. 24.-Harold Ullerv. II
years old. who shot and killed aIrs.
Emma Dayhun. formerly OF south
Bend. and then robbed the cash draw
er in her general store az Fairland.
near here. has made "a second confes-
sion. according 10 Sheriff Franz.
The boy made a clean breast of the
shooting, according TO the officer. ad-
lhlJtng mat II was not an accident
and declared that he was DrOmpred
10 the act when he heard Of the rob
/ berry and shooting of Emanuel A.
Fink, South Bend druggist
The crimes in South Bend and Fair
land were almost identical UHerv
VIII face charge OF murder. the same
AS Joseph Smith and FLOYD Fifer. who
are held for the South Bend robbery
( Jhery. -Owever. viii not be in dan
ger OF he electric chair as caDitaI
punishment has been abolished i'm
Michigan for several years.
The coroner's jury which made
second INVESTIGATION into the death OF
Mrs naNhur, found UHery respon-
Slble. 1ne boys father sat on the
first jury impanelled 10 probe tho
mystery and the boy himself offered
/ 10 serve before he broke down and
confessed 20 the shooting
Here is young Ullerys story as he
{ told il To the officers.
1T wasn't an accident can't ten
I YOU why / did il bun J shot her with
the intention or killing her 2 know
/ that IL Is murder and . ann ready 90
! take my medicine"
Crime Haunts Him i'm sleep.
The youth admits that the crime
! has haunted him I'm his slecuing
hours during the last two nights
It's awful" he says. TO Iie on your
, bunk and have the whole thing come
before your eyes just as real as when
it was done. 7 couldn't stand d.. So 7
thought ] had better tell just how it
happened.
Il read about that Fink case in
South Bend and somehow IL caught
hold of me and / kept thinking about
I az until i made up my mind 20 try
something just like IT, But ] didn
intend TO murder Mrs. Dayhun when
I went into the store Thursday after
noon. Somehow as ] was standing
in front OF the stove thinking about
the Fink case i was prompted 10
reach for my gun and before 7 knew
II ] had killed the woman. Then 7
thought about the cash box and ran
back of the counter. gra bhed III and
got ont OF the store just as fast as
7 could. I'm sorry now for it all
bat ] guess it's too late"
Caught by Accident" Theory
Ullery was frank 90 state that when
he was led before the corpse by Sher-
iff Franz and Deputy McGuiness he
had no intention Of cOnfessing and
would have kept on in his denial Of it
all had not il been suggested ia him
that the whole thing might have been
an accident
THAT looked to be the easiest wav
out so 7 said that ] had shot her acc.-
dentaIly. But 7 guess not many peo-
pie believed my story. T feel better
now that ] have told the truth OF IL
all"
The boy was visited in his cell this
morning by his mother. Mrs. Fred
Ullery. and the pastor OF the South
Berrien Senter church 10 which the
family belong. Young Tllery was 20
have been baptized Sunday I'm the
church The rite may now be admin
istered In his cell in the county jail