Evening star., 1923-02-21
SLAYER CONFESSES:
"L|FER" TO co FREE
Boastful Youth to Bring Vim
dication to Clarence Nc
Kinney, No. 51,210.
TO GET FORMAL RETRIAL
Innocent Man Has Spent Five
Months Behind Walls of Ohio
Penitentiary.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, February. 2l-
Three fateful words. II am guilty"
from the lips of another man and az
indefinite number Of years behind the
! bleak gray walls of the Ohio peni-
tentiary had dwindled into hours to-
day for Clarence Leroy Mckinney
convict 51,210), who five months ago
! began life sentence for murder. The
court, backed by jury of twelve
men, chosen in Clinton county,
staid Quaker community, which sel4-
fenced Mckinney, expects TO right the
injustice through formal retrial at
which tho life sentence will be an
nuled.
Judge F. II. Clevenger, over the
telephone, said he would instruct The
prosecuting attorney of Wilmington
to file motion in the state court of
appeals in Cincinnati today TO grant
the request of Mckinney for new
trial. Immediately this IL granted,
udsetClevenger will consider mo
ton in his court for the annulment
of Mckinneys sentence.
Mrs. Mckinney left Cincinnati
early today for Wilmington 10 meer
her husband. She expected to return
to Cincinnati with him tomorrow.
Convicted despite his protests OF
innocence OF the murder of Special
Policeman Emery McCreight at VII
mingtop February II, 1892. McKin-
ney, q huckster, was unable in the
eyes Of the jurors to furnish con
elusive alibi.
Youth Confesses Guilt.
In the same courtroom at Whining
10
with the same Judge presiding, boz
in his early twenties. Louis Wander
WORT. son of a wealthy fruit grower
of near jamestown, first arrested or
charges OF robbery, yesterday PLEADED
guilty to the murder OF McCreight
He was sentenced to life imprisor
ment in the penitentiary. waite.
Bangham. nineteen, an accomplict
pleaded guilty TO manslaughter aHG
was given "a one TO twenty years ser
tence in the Mansfield refor1natory
Authorities in Green county, WhIcf
adjoins Clinton county. have betH
conducting an investigator INK"
statements made by boy friends OF
Vanderyoort that he shot and KILLED
Policeman Elvas Matthews in henia
in December. 1922. Vandervoort wa
implicated in the McCreight murder
by friends. who declared he hau
bOaSted OF his prOW6SS Win d II
volver, claiming that two notches cut
in the butt OF his pistol representec
dead policemen. after he had been
arrested for robbery.
Summoned by Warden z. Z. Thomas
to his office from the penltentar.
loom mill late yesterday afternoon
Mckinney received philosophicallE
the announcement that he was TO hr
freed.
More sorry for Mother.
Well. we all have our troubles.
Ie said calmly. i've always had
feeling that I'd get out. ] haven
| felt so very bad, because L knew !
wasn't guilty. I've felt more SOFT!
| for my wife and my mother than for
myself-the humiliation was hard or
] them
| Mckinney said his parents. Mr.. auu
! Mrs. Charles Mckinney, reside on q
farm near BIuftton. Ind.
| His wife. whom he was married 20
n short time before he was sentenced.
/ has been working in Il Cincinnati
| restaurant, obtaining funds TO be eS
| pended in All effort To free her hus
| band.
| James ". Reno. arrested with Nc
I Kinney as an accomplice, but never
| brought to trial. will be relea sed
| from the Clinton county Jail, wher-
| he has been incarcerated according
| TO Judge Clevenger.