The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-04
By J. G. l.. BR3CKER International News Service Stan
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 St. LoUR, Mo, Dec. 4.-A hapless youth coiiAned in a cell in the city jail here is proving strange prob lem to criminologists who are study ing his case.
 He is Albert Scott Ellis, 21, con- fessed slayer of his first sweetheart, Edna Ellis, 18-year-o1d stenographer, because she persistently spurned his efforts ts effect a reconciliation after their dance hall and summer resort brutal manner in which the girl was slashed to death with a razor and the youth of her slayer have made the case Q sensation in St: Louis police annals.
 When one sits and talks with Ellis in his cell in the jail it is difficult to believe that this quiet, sadfaced youth could have committed such a horrible crime as the one with which he is charged. There is nothing of the hardened criminal or thug about him. He is not q tough or a gang ster, but seemingly a normal young ster, with deep love for his home and his mother and an overwhelming desire to have her constantly with him.
 Ellis is charged with and has con fessed to the murder of his sweet heart on the night Of November 5. They had quarreled and when he found that all his efforts to make Up' were useless he waited for her near a vacant lot she was in the habit of passing on her way home from work in north St. Louis and s1ashed her throat with a razor. Two days later he was arrested and when confronted with the evidence signed g. confession admitting the crime
 It was in October. 1918, that Ellis met his sweetheart. He had just first girl"
 1T will never forget the date" he said in talking of his love affair, which has terminated with such tra- gedy.
 Neither will he ever forget, he de- clared, the place-Creve Occur Lake. But Ellis didn't know that Creve Occur Lake translate means flake of the broken heart" or flake of sor- row" It seems an ominous coinci- evenings of these youthful lovers should have been spent at the "loke of the broken heart before their own youthful hearts were broken by a series of minor circumstances result ing in the breaking of their engage ment, and that the final effort Of the youth to patch things up before the tragic evening of November should have been made at the Lake of Sor- row.
 The occasion of their meeting was church picnic at the resort and Fl lis. struck by Edna's beauty. asked permission to dance with her.
 'I fell in love with her right away" he said. "I took all the rest of her dances that evening, took her home and made an engagement to take her to another dance. She became my first steady girl. She didn't go with any other boys and I didn't go with any other girls.''
 Ellis wept while telling of his pro- posal to Edna I've talked about getting married" he said. CT was boarding at her home. It was her birthday, September 2S, 1919. We al- ways went to dances. We spent every Sunday afternoon and evening danc- | ing and lots of week evenings mad saved SIS and had bought a lit. 1 tie diamond ring in a pawnshop. That night asked her point blank to mar. " me. She said she would. I was : driving truck and earning S4OE per day. but soon after that my em. : ptoyer told me all the soldiers were ! coming back from France, makins