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Win St3ns-Suhk Body in Creek.
Camden. \. d.. Nay 26.-An IS
yesr-old boy confessed THAT he muir
dered Ida Kramer. .-yesr-old Wood
bury. y. j., girl. whose body was
found in Newton Greek. near Wood.
lynne. month ago.
He is George Elmer Monroe, 1875
Fillmore street, his city. The boy,
rem anded TO The Camden county jail,
WAS taken out b! detectives aid led
over the scene OF the crime.
Monroe confessed he killed :ae child
by hitting her on the head with q rock
and dropping her. unconscious, into
The creek, on the night OF March 81.
when she mysreriously Disappeared.
The youth said he had taken the
girl away from her home with the
Intention Of kidnapping her and h,.:d-
Ing her for ranSoHt. Ne did not
iEean to kill her. he said. bur hit her
oil the head with rock TO silence her,
as Ida etdr.sI -, ii. 10 be laksn
home.
Aft. hi her She fell over and
| Tho Z: she was dead" Monroe said
in Ia confession. Il didn't know
wi. :" do. I look off my shines and
S! : n. and picked The girl up
"%~irr.ns her. | waded OUT into the
c. re. ;:nd dropped her inro The wafer
a!ioIfi tHa feel deep. Then | wa,icd
back tn HE shore. put on my shoes
ana Stockings and started for home"
Monroe sail he was taking The
child To Il vacant house along the
creek that he know about. Intended 10
keep her there until after her IA ther
l::'iore Kramer, i butcher, paid FOR
her TO be restored TO him.
Monroe is The son OF Laura and
Samuel Monroe. The father. Tho is
separated from his wife, is Cam,
den City employe. working in the
wafer bureau. The BOY was a sailor
Ia the Eavy. buL a, year ago his moIher
obrained his release. Mrs. Monroe,
her son George. and a sister. Cath
crime. II. live Al the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Levengood. None of The
family believes the boy killed Ida:
Monroe's confession is authentic
and true in every detail. Prosecutor
Wnls erton believes.
He said he at first believed the boy
might be of fanciful imagina ton,
and Immediately after his arrest he
had Monroe examined by County PLY
stefan Stem and specialist.
For a cold-blooded recital of brutal
facts, the confession Of Monroe is one
that might be expected from hard
ened criminal, the prosecutor said. AS
the boy unfolded his tale of the MUIR
ed at the reyela tons Of the crime.
which for weeks had completely baf-
fed the authorities.
Monroe's arrest was due 10 his con-
science. His crime preyed on his
mind, he could not sleep, he was OBJ
seSsed with desire to expiate il,
but for weeks he could not nerve him.
self 10 the ordeal. he said.
AT one time during the investiga-
ton into the mystery Of the girls
death. and while a relative Of the
child's father. Miss Esther Tannen-
baum. 0s Camden, was detained as
suspect. an anonymous letter saying
the child's body was IN q creek. was
senT 10 The Kramer family.
Monroe wrote this. His arrest aud
confession were due 70 two other let
tiers he wrote to Prosecutor Wolver-
ton. telling Of the crime snd the man
Ter OF the childs death
The first Of these letters. unsigned
was received month ago. Prosecutor
WOlyerton and detectives were unable
70 trace it and concluded It tie work
Of crank.
Hut Wednesday there came the sec.
ond letter. written il the same hand
This time ii was signed and gave
MOnroe's address On Fillmore street.
[n this second letter the boy said he
did not know Ida or her family, but
just picked her out at random while
wandering about Woodbury., as a
likely girl to kidnap."
Monroe conceived the idea Of kid.
mapping q child because ne was out
Of work and needed money, he said In
his detailed confession.