Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-12
Killed Two Men to
 Obtain Automobile
Ruthless Staying of B. J. Daugherty and Carl Aus mus Confessed by Harvey w. Church in Chicago.

Chicago, Sept. 11-Harvey w. Church the twenty year old youth accused of staying E. J. Daugherty and Carl Ausmus to obtain possession of a $4,500 automo bile, broke down after twelve hours of questioning today and made a complete confession according to the police.
 The youth, brought back last night from Adams, Wis, his former home. where he had driven his mother in the car Friday, the day after the murder. was quoted as admitting that L4 alone planned and executed the tragedy. The terrible beatings shown on the bodies and the trusting of both was mere ly to be sure they were dead, according to the alleged confession which in part | follows
 1 'Ausmus waited in the car outside my house at the curbing while I went inside with Daugherty. I told him 1 would give him tle money in the parlor. When l got to the parlor. I drew pistol. He just held up his hands, guess he thought I was going to rob him.
 l l pulled out the handcuffs with enc hand and told him to hold out the hands one at a time. All the time 1 kept him covered with the gun. He looked like a powerful man and I wasn't going to give him a chance l took him to the base
 ment
 | When we got down the stairs I took the baseball bat in one hand, but I kept him covered with the pistol so that he
 couldn't move. Turn around 1 said He started to turn. l guess then he had
 an idea of what was coming, but it was
 too late. I swung the bat with all my
 might, and it caught him right across
 the head. He went down but tried tC
 strike back with his two hands together
 'I kept beating him over the heaC
 until he didn't move any more. I hit hin
 with bat and with a hatchet. Ther
 I cut his throat. I was afraid he might
 come to while I was going up stair:
 to get Ausmus. Then I went up stair:
 and waited. I knew Ausmus would come | in. He did a few minutes later and went through the same thing I did th' other fellow.
 : After I had them both killed, I waite' until dark and iut Ausmus in a hole il
 the garage Then I bound up Daugherty' : body in a quilt and dragged it to tn . automobile I dumped him in the rive right over the bridge where he wa : found floating. I had a lot of troubl
 with that body. Kind of hard for on fellow to handle a body that way. Yo know. it flip Hops around. Then l drov around in the car.
 Tt certainly was a beautiful car, an | guess SnOulQ nave gone BdCh an l cleaned up the basement instead of rid ing around. It didn't seem so terribl to me. I wanted the car and I though I would get caught if Daugherty or tn other fellow got away"
 Coroner Peter Hoffman tonight de clared that Church's alleged confessio wassa tissue of lies, false on the fac Of it." He said that it would have bee 2 physically impossible for Church t \ have killed the two men in the manne described. He asserted a belief tha T the double murder was the work of se' eral men.
 : 'Daugherty's jaw was broken 0
 each side. proof positive of terrific blow
 which Church says he did not deliver
 the coroner said. "Ausmus was aliy when he was placed In the grave in tt : rear of the garage. Church says it wa Il Il three or four hours after the attack c , Ausmus that he was buried. He forge
 to mention the manner in which Au
 mus neck was broken"
 The questioning of Church endt T shortly after 10 o'clock and he w.
 taken to hotel for the night. Througl e out his long cross examination, y showed little emotion.
 l. At one point Church was said to ha7 l. admitted to the police that another pc $ son was implicated In the two slayine D but refused to reveal any name. TT 1t police. however, dec ared that they we 2 convinced that Church alone was r .e sponsible and that the first story he to l. of the tragedy was correct.