Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-12
ADMITS
KILLING AS']N|lUS
AND D|AUGHER1'Y | |! !! ! : ! ! |'. |
Two Confessions Made BY
Youth Of 20; May Have
Had II ], He Help.
Two More Arrests; Mem
bers Of Family to Be
Questioned,

Chicago, Sept. 12-Authorities in
vestigating the double murder of B.
j. Daugherty, automobile Salesman,
and Carl Asmus his companion. today
were attempting to sift the facts from
two alleged confessions made by
Harvey w. Church yesterday. l
In one confession, according to the
police, Church admitted committing
both murders single handed. In
second and informal confession, the
police say he asserted he had ac-
complies in the crimes
1t, was announced today that two
new arrests had been made and search
for a dozen former associates of
Church was under way and Church's
, parents were today to be subjected to
! quesu oning. s
Church's first and informal confess
| sion, according to the police, was made
yesterday afternoon after nearly ten
hours Of ceasess questioning following
his return from adams, Wis, where
he was captured. He broke down
after having been taken over the
| scene of the crime. He said that he
took Daugherty and Asmus to his
home In the new $4,000 automobile he
had bought through their company on
theapret ense Of paying for it. He lured
Da4gherty into the basement Of his
home, he said, waylaid him at the
point OF pistol, handcuffed him,
choked him with q rope and then
struck him over the head with a base
ball bat.
Asmus was lured to the basement a
| few seconds later and was tied up and
I beaten until Church believed him
dead.
Leaving the bodies in the basement,
Church ayers he then took his mother
| neiRhhnFa 0y,L a i i'm y; ~.
ride, returning in the evening and
burying Asmus body in the garage.
The homemade grave was not large
4 enough to hold Daugherty's body also
rand Church, aceofding to the police,
said ne took this body in the new ca car. !.
the. crimes; to the Des Plains river
and threw it from bridge. Later
that morning he left in the new car
with his mother for Adams, Wis. II
T Another Confe.a ion.
This alleged confession, character
lied as Tissue of lies by Coroner
Peter Hoffman, was followed, accord
ing to- the bolice, by second alleged
confession in which Church said he
he is said to have admitted cutting
Daugherty's throat with an axe.
Investigators today pointed out that
Church himself could hardly have
handled the body Of Daugherty.
weighing 220 pounds when he weighed
but 1876, that Church in his first con-
4 fession referred several times to
4 "we, that there has as yet been no
/, explanation of how Asmus neck was
broken or how Daugherty's head and
face were bruised and beaten to a
pulp. ltisy
Slept in Hotel.
With detectives heavily armed.
seated at his bedside, Church slept
souhdly last night tat a down town
hotel. The guards said he fell asleep
imme diately after going to bed at mid
night, sleeping until.9 o'clock this
morning:
| John Norton, acting chief of detec-
tives, declared Church's behavior was
most "unusual.' 81 have never seen
without finching and without at least
the mention Of sorrow for the vic
Tins"
Lieut.. Norton, disagreed, with Cor
oner Hoffman's theory that Church
! had accomplices in the killing.
IF Church had an accomplice he
would have made known his name as
readily as he described the murders" /"
Lieut.. 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. II anyone else had helped,
IChurch would have told it. Human
far as Church did, he would have
told it all"
Hundreds Of people focked to the
/! Church home yesterday, by automo-
bile and<on foot, and police said as
4 many as 900 cars were clustered
4 around the Fulton street residence at
times. A ! Gordon OF police was thrown
about the apartment building today to
4 keep the curious away. e
Told Story.
The police version.of the alleged
confession follows in part.
Il ''Ausmus waited in the car outside
at the curbing," Church was quoted
as saying, while u went inside with
Daugherty. told him / would give
4 him the money In the parlor. When
4 got to the parlor. 7 drew q pistol. He
4 just held UP his hands j guess he
A thought / was going to rob him
4 ri pulled out the handouts with one
hand and told him to hold out his
hands one at a time. All the time I
Il kept him covered with the gun. He
Il looked like q powerful man and I
4 wasp't going to give him q chance. I
took him to the basement a.s
When we got down the stairs, I
n took the baseball bat in one hand, but
Il i kept him covered with the pistol SO
that he couldn't move. W i$ }.a s - st
Turn around 81 said He started
1! to turn. I guess then he had an idea
o6 what was coming. but was too late.
4 I swung the bat with all my might
u and 1t caught him across the head
4 He went down but kept wriggling and
4. tried TO strike back with his two
hands together. H.
81 kept beating him over the head
,iuntil he didn't move any more. Il
1. hit him with bat and with d
thatchet. Then / cut his throat.
was afraid he might have come to
while 4 was going upstairs to get
Ausmus. Then went upstairs and
lwaited knew Ausmus would come
ins He did a Few moments later and
then went through the same thing
.lIA. "A III with Is * lier fallola