Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-13
PRIEST INSANE,
FRIENDS SAY
Priest Who Shot and Killed
His Superior Rector is Un-
der Arrest
TELLS OF SHOOTING
Slayer Telephones for Police
and Calmly Owns Up to
the Murder
TELLS OF SHOOTING

KALAMAZOO, Mich, April 13.-
Prosecuting Attorney Stephen II.
Wattles announced today that he
was preparing to issue an order for
4 warrant charging the Rev. Father
Charles Dillon with murder in con-
nection with the Staying last night of
Father Henry O'Neill. pastor Of st.
Augustine's Catholic church here.
"Under Father Dillon's own sworn
statement I can do nothing but
charge him with murder" the prose-
cutor said.
Police Chief Benjamin Taffee an
nounced this morning that Father
Dillon, who is held at police head
quarters, has reiterated the confess
sion made last night, that he had
shot Father O'Nein. Father Dillon,
who was the assistant to the pastor,
told the authorities he shot Father
O'Neill because the latter had
treated me like u child"
A post-mortem examination OF the
body of Father O'Neill today dis
closed six bullet wounds in his body
Father Dillon, in his statement, is
said to have declared he fired four
times.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. April 49,
Four bullets from revolver brought
! tragedy to the priest house of St
| Augustine's parish last night when
Rev. Father Charles Dillon, assistant
| pastor and member of the Carthu-
sian Fathers Order, shot and killed
his superior, Rev. Father Henry
O'Neill, pastor of the parish, who
had ordered him from the house.
The killing of Father O'Neill cul-
minated what Rev. Father Dillon
told police was thirteen months OF
ill-treatment," during which, he
said, Father O'Neill treated me like
little boy, and assumed toward me
the attitude of czar.'
Rev. Father Dillon, who is being
! held, told police that the tragedy was
| the climax of the evening meal. Rev
Father O'Neill, his assistant and
Father Mccullough were at the table
| he said. Rev. Father C'Neill order
| ed Dillon to go upstairs and pack
his grip" Instead, Dillon went tc
his room, obtained a revolver and re-
| turned to the dining room.
II intended to give him chance
to confess and repent before l killed
him." police report Dillon as saying
"but as l advanced into the room
with the revolver extended, l saw
him grab a salt cellar to throw al
l.me, and I fired twice."
II knelt before God and prayed
That something would happen to thai
man." Father Dillon was quoted as
saying in a statement made to Prose
cutor Stephen H. Wattles. He was
being questioned in the presence OF
stenographeR The statement AT
times was disconnected and con.
tained numerous repetitions.
''I had no right to kill Father
O'Neill; not one right in the world, u
the statement said. Il took that in
my own hands and killed him.
want to go to Jackson (the state
PRISON.. I'd rather have the chair,
81 never did any harm in my life;
never took cent from nobody. The
gentle little children all over Mich
igan will tell you they love me-"
Asked how long he had possessed
the revolver, Father Dillon said,
not very long"
Did you purchase it for the pur-
poser" asked the prosecutor.
Eyes, for the purpose, replied the
priest. "Conditionally for the pur-
pose. Not absolutely to say it was
going to happen; hoped It would
not"