Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-13
CHURCH SAID TO 4.
HAVE HAD HELP
OF TWO OTHERS III J: I!
Police Continue Search For
!. Several Who May Be
Implicated.
Parks Said They Killed Mer
to Get Car to Sell and
Divide Money.

4 refusing to sign an alleged con.
feesion duplicating himself with
Harvey w. Church in the 'shand-
q cun" Staying Of two automobile
salesmen, Leon Parks, garage
employe, finally signed the forty
page transcript telling the story
of his part in the Staying today.
Parks, at first, declined to sign
the statement because he said
he had been beaten and forced
into making the admissions.
Meanwhile rsiding parties of
detectives were turned loose on q
man-hunt for Clarence Bud
Wilder, named by Church In his
confession in the Staying Of Ber.
nard j. Daugherty and Carl A.
for the mu6lated condition of the
bodies.
Authorities expressed some
doubt today that the men whom
they have In custody include
Wilder. The names OF Joseph
Spoula and Charles Robinson
were given as, those of the two
suspects in custody and police
were still searching for others
whom they believe may be Inn
=. .pNcated.
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Chicago, Sept. 13.--Alleged confes-
sions obtained late last night and
early today were believed by the au-
terry surrounding the murder Of B. j
Daugherty and Carl Asmus, auto
mobile statesmen.
Harvey w. Church, 23-year-
youth, at, whose home the men are
alleged to have been killed after
Church had led them there ito receive
payment for an automobile he pre-
tended he. wished to> purchase, late
last night confessed that he was aided
in committing the crimes by two &C.
complices. Originally he had made
an alleged confession, after hours OF
gfilling that he was the Aonly one inn
plicated and had Murdctsd beth men
= single h4nded. after aIurins i them Il
the basement OF his! home. He had
buried the body OF Asmuss& III Il the
basement OF his garage and thrown
that Oh Daugherty in the Dies Plainea
river, according to his prst confes- s.
sion. Il .5. ~ sf .,t@
Last night ! he implicated Leon
PARKS, employed in a garage where
he formerly worked. and ,clarence
Wilder, a friend of Church and Of
Parks, as accomplices
Parks Told Story.
Parks who had been taken into
custody several days ago, when con.
fronted by Church, made an alleged
confession, according to the police, in
which he told the parts the three had
played in committing what the police
declare to be, two of the most bruta
murders in Chicago's history. 5r
Parks confession for the first time
barred the real motive Of the double
murder. The only reason given BY
Church in his original confession wal
that he wished to obtain possession o.
the $5,400 automobile. Parks assert.
ed the three had planned to steal the
car from Daugherty and Asmus, sci
it and divide the profits. Parks con
fession differed but little in essentia
details from the original confession
of Church except that he told of ths
three being involved in the commits
sion Of the two murders and the dis
posal of the bodies. -
Blames Church, s.
Park. and wilder, according t.
Parks, waited in the basement O
Churct's home until Church brough
Daugherty there at the point Of Z
gun, after Daugherty, Church ane
Asmus had driven to his home
Daugherty was handcuned, bount
and then struck over the Mead with
4 baseball bat and his throat cut
Asmus, who came to look for Daugh'
erty, suffered a similar fate. Parks
In his alleged confession. blame'
Church with the actual Staying Of th'
two Wctfma
Some Evidence q YytlepW.