The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
MISSING WOMAN BURIED.
ALIVE IN NEW YORK
SUSPECT IN MURDER CASE
REVEALS THE DETAILS OF
AN HORRIBLE MURDER.
BODY is DUG UP BY THE POLICE
Thrown in Pit of Quick Lime and
Covered With Dirt While Moaning
From Lick in the Head. Crime Oc-
Cured in Heart of the City.


in which Abraham Becker was named
as the murderer of his wife, Jennie,
was made Saturday afternoon by Reu-
ben Norkin, proprietor of an automo-
bile shop in the yard of which Mrs.
Becker's body was dug up by the po-
lice nearly eight months after her dis
appearance.
Norkin stated that two days before
the murder Becker borrowed a shovel
from him and with it dug the grave
into which he subsequently flung the
body OF his wife, who was not then
dead, but moaning from the blow on
the head Becker had given her, This
bears out the already announced theo-
ry of the district attorney and medical
examiner that Mrs. Becker was buried
alive.
Becker, according to the signed con-
fession OF Norkin, struck his wife as
she was bending over the engine OF
his car in Norkin's repair yard, she
having been asked by her husband to
listen to the mechanism for faulty
noises.
Discussed Staying Method.
Becker hit her with a piece Of pipe
after he got his wife to leave the car
and which was found on Saturday by
detectives.
Norkin also stated that on at least
half a dozen occasions Becker discuss
ed with him means of disposing OF
Mrs Becker One plan was by poison,
another by drowning, but NOrkln said
he advised against each of these as
dangerous. AS for the drowning plan,
he declared Becker replied that he
could tie a weight to her which would
prevent the body ever coming to the
surface.
Onlv one blow was struck by Beck
err, Norkin swore, and this sent Mrs.
Becker sprawling across the engine of
the car. She then slid to the front fen
der, groaning and moaning. Becker
grabbed her, Norkin declared, and
dragged her to the disused boiler pit
where he had prepared her grave.
In an apparent effort to stit1e her
groanings Becker drew his wife's coat
over her head, Norkin said, and thus
bundled I'D she was tumbled into the
waiting grave. 1t was Norkin's task,
he said. to act as lookout while Beck
er scraped over the body the earth at
one side of the excavation, which
Becker had dug to a depth OF about
four and half feet.
Sworn to Secrecy.
When the body was covered, Nor
kin said. he and Becker stood on the
low mound. and shaking hands swore
never to tell what had happened there.
Asked whether he had received any
money for his share in that morning
work-the murder was committed on
the morning of April 7-Norkin said
no. He said he had done what he did
out of friendship for Becker.
District Attorney Cohn, to whom
Norlin confessed, said that he intends
to begin a thorough investigation OF
the disappearance in 1915 OF Miss Fan
ME Bloom, whom Norkin has admit
ed knowing. There is belief in the dis
trict attorneys Office that other bod
les NAV have been buried in the lot
in which Norkin's. shop stands.
Witnesses have furnished a motive
for the crime, since Becker IS said to
have told friends that he was going
to get rid of Mrs. Becker in order
to live with Miss Anna Elias.
Two years ago Becker left his wife
and four children and took Anna Elias
to Cleveland, but after three months
he returned to his own family.
He continued to see Miss Elias,
however, and she took the name of
Mrs. Becker and lived with him after
the disappearance OF the real Mrs,
Becker last April.