Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-14
BRIDES MALICE
WAS START OF
KILLING RAGE?
Confessions of Couple in Jail
Reveal New Angles to Crime
at Rochester, N. Y.
VICTIM WAS ON SQUARE

ROCHESTER, n Y, Jan. 14-The
Jealous mania of a husband, tortured by
his brides revelations, was at first held
accountable for the killing of Edward ].
!, Kneip.
Now Sheriff Andrew Weidenmann, who
obtained confessions from Mr.. and Mrs
HDell is convinced that a woman's
malice is the real cause behind the crime
O'Dell, a former enlisted man in the
avy, is no more brutal in appearance
than the strange, primitive girl he mar
led. He weighs 100 pounds, is pallid
nd thin, and was discharged from the
p avy for physical disability.
O'Dell is a Mason, an Elk and an Odd
elbow and a member of social clubs
and drill teams in all these orders. He
3elongs to the American Legion and
played saxaphone in the noted legion
hand Of Rochester. He is a member of
the Y. NJ. c. A.
Wearing she'll trimmed glasses as he
read newspaper accounts of his crime,
this slender youth tried hard to cover
his nervousness and, at times, to keep
back the tears.
BREAKDOWN COMES
FROM BRIDEGROOM
After Mrs O'DelPs arrest, O'dell
slipped through the ring of deputies
watching his home and ran, as fast as
he could, toward the police headquar-
ters in search of his wife. 1t was he
who broke down and made the adm1s-
sions which enabled the authorities to
obtain a full account of the case from
Mrs o'Dell.
1t now seems certain that rejected love,
turned to smoldering hatred, trans
formed Pearl O'Dell, IS years old, into
demon. Her fury at the loss Of a
favored lover impelled her to feed the
mind of the youth she had married with
venom until he became her partner In
the honeymoon. murder"
That is the theory upon which the
prosecution will work in It's endeavor
to compel Pearl -O'DeI and her hus-
band to pay the extreme penalty, which
in this state is death by electrocutlon.
The taunt you're Yellow" is believed
to have driven O'Dell into a killing rage.
CRIME IS WoMAN's,
DECLARES SHERIFF.
eft was Enthusiastically the woman's
crime says the sheriff.
Sharp and clean in the light covering
Of snow which lay on the ground when
the body of Kneip was found, were two
sets Of footprints. One bore the deep
mark Of a French heel. The two tracks
we're visible along the trail made by
the dragged body. At one point the man
aud woman had Changed hands in
their grewsome task
For some of the distance, only one
of the woman's shoes showed the French
heel mark.
Then the heel, torn loose from the
shoe, was found.
It had been. broken off as Pearl O'DcH
kicked and stamped the PROSTATE body
Of her former lover.
Tfrnni0O In her DANA ped T0OfnreaF Mrs
O'Dell trudged the six-miles back to the
home of her husbands foster parents.
Here she went to the bedside Of MS.
Arnold and said to her.
"Well, slammed him. Don't blame
Louie"
BRIDE TRIES HARD
TO CONCEAL EVIDENCE.
She burned the shoes and her hus-
bands blood-stained trousers, and
worked until dawn trying to wash from
her new fur coat the dark, tell-tale
bIotches 80
- Kneip became acquainted. with Pearl
I JBeaver through d bog-ande girl firta-
" tion. He was Square" with hers &C.
cording to his code, but never told his
mother that he knew her, and insisted,
I'm the last hour of his life, that he never
\ promised to marry her.
One night last summer Kneip called
( Mt the home Of Pearl Beavers sister to
see Pearl The girl was out, with some
one else. Kneip and Torrance Cosgrove
PEARLS brother-in-law, had a long talk
Cosgrove warned the younger man that
Pearl was wild" Kneip went away,
and never approached Pearl again
On his body was a letter signed "Vi-
ola" 1t told of romance far different
from the one in which Kneip and Pearl
Beaver had been involved.