The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-12
HOLD 2 MORE
IN MURDER
OF AUSMUS
Church's Second Confes,
sion Points to Crime
Aids.

Chicago. Sept. II. - UNITED
pTess,l--Chicagoss handcuft mur-
dor case was laid before grand
jury today 49,
chief Of detectives, submitted the
evidence leading to the arrest and
subsequent confession of Harvey
" Church, slayer of Bernard }.
Daugherty and Carl a. Ausmus,
packard Motor company statesmen.
other witnesses were TO be call
Cd The confession, secured yes
terdav after hours of intense grill
ing. was to be introduced .
Chicago, Sept. 12.-Authorities in
vestigating the double. murder of
Bernard ]. Daugherty, automobile
salesman, and Carl Ausmus of
bloomington, H., his companion,
today were attempting to sift the
facts from two alleged confessions
made yesterday by Harvey W.
Church.
In one confession, according to
the police. Church admitted COM
mitting both murders single-hand-
ed. In a second and informal con-
fession, the police say, he assert
ed he had an accomplice in the
crimes. It was announced today
that in investigating the latter
statements, two new arrests had
been made in the case. Search for
a former companion of Church was
under way and Church's parents
we're today to he subjected to ques-
boning.
Church's first and formal confes-
sion. according to the police, was
made yesterday afternoon after
nearly ten hours of ceaseless ques-
toning. following his return here
from Adams, Wis, where he was
arrested He broke down after haV-
ing been taken over the scene of
the crime.
He said that he took Daugherty
and Ausmus to his home in the new
$1,000 car he had bought through
their company on the pretense of
paying for it, He luTed Daugher-
ty into the basement of his home,
he said. waylaid him at the point of
pistol, handcuffed him, choked
him with a rope and then struck
him over the head with a baseball
bat.
Ausmus was lured to the base
ment a few seconds later and was
tied up and beaten until Church
believed him dead.
J Leaves Bodies, Takes Ride.
Leaving the bodies in the base
ment Church AYERS he then took his
mother and neighborS on a long
auto IL in
evening and burying Ausmus' body
in the garage. The hom emade 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 bridge. The
next morning he left in the new car
with his mother for Adams, Wis.
This alleged confession, charac-
terized as a tissue of lies" by Coro-
ner Peter Hoffman, was followed,
according to the police, by a sec
ond alleged confession in which
Church said he had accomplices. In
this confession he is said to have
admitted cutting Daugherty's throat
With an axe.
To Question Parents. --
Investigators today pointed out
mat Church himself could hard! ~
nave handled the body of Daugher-
", weighing 220 pounds, when he
weighed but 1856, that Church in his
hrst confession referred several
unes to we. that there as yet has
peen no explanation of how Aus
mus neck was broken or how
Daugherty's head and face were
bruised and beaten to a pulp.
church and his parents were tc
De questioned further today in an
euort 10 clear up many details d
Ae crimes, which were character
1ed by Chicago police as the mos'
coid-oiooded in the city's history