The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-02-21
POURED GASOLINE
ON GIRLS BED SET
FIRE LOCKED DOOR
Four of Five Members of Family
Wiped Out BY Youth in
One Years Time

st. Petersburg, Fla, Feb. 20
Full and complete confession of the
murder of his father and mothr here
last night and his two sisters in De-
catur, Ga, year ago, was made
here this afternoon by Frank Nc
Dowell, according to Chief of Police
Coslick and Detective John Trotter.
Frank told the police that when he
was IL years old, he committed a
sin against the Holy Ghost, and ever
since then there had been an anti
Christ element in his family, and he
| felt he had to remove it. He said
that last night soon after his father
and mother went to bed, the anti
Christ became dominant and he got
his pistol and shot his father and his
mother. They were to him, not his
father and mother, he said, but the
anti-Christ. He said he shot his
father first and then his mother, and
fired five shots, all that we're in his
weapon.
| Then he went back to bed. This
was early, soon after 10 o'clock. He
said he woke up later when it began
Ito rain and realized what he had done
and that there might be consequent
ces. So he said he got up and went
to the kitchen and bumped his head
against shelf and then gave the
alarm to the neighbOrs.
| Describes Burning Girls
Frank told the police that he had
realized long before the fire in which
his sisters were burned to death, that
they were the anti-Christ element in
his family, and that he must remove
them.
He said he went into the room
where they were sleeping and threw
gasoline over their bed and then took
fire from the fireplace and set the
gasoline ablaze He said he then ran
out Of the room, after locking the
door leading from the house and af-
I ter he got out locked the other door,
which opened into the yard.
Frank went into details when
asked to do so. He said that he had
written the old letter, typewriter on
piece of paper cut heart-shaped
Monday and had taken it home with
him. After shooting his parents, he
said he put the letter on the bed be-
tween them.
This letter read as follows:
Our father who are in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy name; Thy king
dom come; Thy will be done on earth
as it is in Heaven; give us this day
our daily bread and forgive us our
debts as we forgive our debtors and
| lead US not into temptation, but de-
liver US from evil for Thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory
forever and ever, Oh, Jehovah, for
thrust in the defiled womb of the
elder virgin of the issue of anti
Christ didst offer up this prayer to
the spirit writ upon the likeness of
the cross of sin, which didst weigh
heavily upon mine heart, till purged
in the consuming flames of the evil
one; and it was the end of the first
year of sin with me and the end of
mine sin before the spirit; and now
in the mouth of the father of the
house of Satan do / offer up this
prayer Of mine Heavenly Father writ
on the likeness of mine heart, des-
tined to the blackness of sin that it
shall be washed away in the blood
of the lamb as it gusheth from the
! body Of thine slain enemy; and it is
the end of the second year of sin
with me and the end of mine sin be-
fore thee and likewise in the watery
sepulchre of the Son of the House
of anti-C Christ shall / mingled this