The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-15


Church's bravado never for moment
deserted him on the trip from Adams
to the scene of his alleged crime. While
his mother sobbed Historically, he
again and again assured her that the
whole thing was mistake and that he
would prove himself innocent when the
proper time came.
And while Church was calming his
mother, detectives in Chicago were re-
vealing the grewsome details of the
murder, as indicated by the marks on
the body Of Carl Ausmus, the second
victim. They showed plainly that lie
had been dubbed into ,insensibility.
gagged and buried alive in a shallow
grave in the Church garage in Chicago.
They also suggested that the killing
must have been the work of either a
party of men or a maniac, endowed by
demoniacal frenzy with super-human
strength.
The case, then, even with Churcf's
confession, resolves itself into the
question: Could the twenty-three-
year-old boy, calm and unperturbed.
who passed through KenOsha Saturday
evening, have been such a maniac, such
a murderer?
(By Associated Press Leased Wirel
Chicago Authorities investigating
the double murder of Bernard ].
Daugherty, automobile salesman and
Carl Ausmus his companion today were
attempting to sift the facts from the
two alleged confessions made by Har-
vey w. Church yesterday.
In one OF the confessions, according
to the police, Church admitted com
hitting both murders single handed.
In a second and informal confession,
the police say, he asserted he had ac-
completes in the crimes.
1t was announced today that in in
vestigatipn of the latter statement two
arrests had been made in search for
dozen former associates of Church
and Chureh's parents we're today to
be subjected to questioning.
Church's first and formal confess
sion, according to the police, was made
yesterday afternoon after nearly ten
hours Of ceaseless questioning follow
ing his return here from Adams, Wis.
where he was captured. He broke
down after having been taken over
the, scene of the crime.
Baseball Bat as Weapon.
He said that he took Daugherty and
Ausmus to his home in the new $4,000
automobile he had bought through
their company on the pretense of pay
ing for it. He lured Daugherty into
the basement Of his home he said, way
laid him at the point of a pistol, hand
cuffed him, ehoked him with a rope
and then struck him over the head
with baseball bat.
Ausmus was lured into the basement
few moments later and was tied I'D
and beaten until Church believed him
dead.
Leaving the bodies in the basement
Church AYERS he then took his mother
and neighbors on a long auto ride,
returning in the evening and burying
Ausmus' body in the garage. The
home made grave was not large enough
to hold Daugherty's body also and
Church, according to the police, said
he took this body in the new car for
possession of which he committed the
crimes, to the Des PLANES river and
threw it from the bridge The next
morning he left in the new car with
his mother for Adams, Wis.
Hoffman Says ''Tissue of Lies"
This alleged confession, characterized
as a Tissue of lies by Coroner Peter
Hoffman was followed, according to
the police, by a second alleged con
fession in which Church said he had
accomplices. In this confession he is
said to have admitted cutting Daugh-
erty's throat with an axe.
Investigators today pointed out that
Church himself could hardly have
handled the body of Daugherty,
weighing go pounds when he weigh
ed but 1876, that Church in his first
confession referred several times to
I'VE" that there has as yet been no
explanation of how Ausmus' neck was
broken or how Daugherty's head and
face were bruised and beaten tn a
pulp.
With two detectives heavily armed
seated at his bedside, Church slept
Bound.y last night in a down town
hotel The guards said he fell asleep
immt diately after going to bed at
midnight sleeping until o'clock this
morning. Lieutenant Norton, acting
chief of detectives, declared Church's
behavior was most unusual.
Tells Story Never Flinehed.
81 have never seen man recount
such a sordid story without flinching
and without at least the mention Of
sorrow for the victims"
Lieutenant Norton disagreed with
Coroner Hoffman's theory that Church
had accomplices in the killing.
eff Church had an accomplish he
would have made known his name as
readily as he described the murders"
Lieutenant Norton said. "A revolver
will make most any man throw up his
hands. He could reasonably have
killed one after the other at the point
of a gun. If anyone else had helped
Church he would haze told it. Human
nature is that if a man confesses as
far as Church did, he would have told
it all
Hundreds Of people floeked to the
Church home yesterday and police say
that as many as 1000 cars were elus-
tered around the Fulton street resi-
denee at times. A Gordon Of police