The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-14
MAN ADMITS HE
HIRED(ANOTHER
TO Do KILLING
Victims Husband and the MUIR
derer Now in County Jail
at Waukesha
PLOT CAREFULLY LAID
Notes and Mortgages Due, Al
vim Greenwaldt Planned
Crime to Get Insurance
PLOT CAREFULLY LAID

Milwaukee, Wis.,, Nov. l4.-tRl---
Alvin Greenwaldt and Arthur
Richard Kelly today were lodged in
the courty Jail at Waukesha await
ing the states next step in the
drama unfolded last night when
GreenwalJt confessed that he hired
Kelly to kill his wife, Emma, so
that he might collect her insurance
and live life Of case.
Kelly rt ccived So in cash and two
diamond rings, valued at $3.50, and
he was to be paid an additional $500
after Greenwaldt collected the $685.
600 insurance, according to the
signed confessions of both now in
the possession of Herman Salen,
district attorney Of Waukesha coun-
ty.
Kelly Was Killer
It was Kelly who didNthe Staying;
it was Greenwaldt who plotted the
death of his wife and who hired
Kelly, a Milwaukee bus driver, the
confessions agree. And Kelly, out
Of work for seven weeks, recon-
ncndcd himself to Greenwaldt as
"a good choker," and insisted on
strangling the woman instead Of
shooting her, as Greenwaldt confess
propos d, the Greenwaldt confess
sion, as given out by Mr.. Salen, cx-
plains.
Repentant and remorseful, broken
by sorrow and by the long grilling
at the hands Of Mr.. Salen, Green
waldt late yesterday unfolded the
story If the plot and Staying. He
told where Kelly could be found and
then faced Kelly at police headquar-
ters here and forced the confession
from the accused assassin.
II hired Kelly to kill her." Green
waldt's confession read.
II choked her to DEATH" Kelly
added according to police. II was
in the car with -Greenwaldt and his
wife. / reached over and grabbed
l.er by the neck with my right hand.
She never moved. It was over in
five seconds"
Plot Carefully Laid
It was a long story the slayers
told; story Of plot carefully laid
and executed. !,
The killing took place while the
Stutz coupe, which Greenwaldt used
in rum running, was racing over q
highway near Dousman at high
sneed. After the body of Mrs.
Greenwaldt had been cast into, .
field, Greenwaldt tore the ylomafi's
underclothing to make it appear
that she had been assaulted; tore
the rings from her fingers and gave
them to Kelly to indicate she had
been -otbed, and then Kelly took
the wheel and drove the car back
to Tacl's hoadhouse, three miles east
of ,Vaukesha. where Greenwaldt
stopped and sluggeA himself on the
head with q large stone. Kelly took
the automobile 20 Milwaukee, his
confession. states, jerked an ignition
wire. and called q garage nla1t ID
two the car away. All this, Green.
wadlt told police, was prearranged
to bear out the story Of an attack
by bandits.
plot Patched Two Weeks Ago
Greenwaldt, according to. police,
told of Matching the plot two weeks
aro. PAYMENTS We due on the
mortgage on his home and notes due
on his automobile. He conceived the
idea Of. getting rid Of his wife; with !,
whom he had never quarreled IN
Is years Of married life, and
broached the subject to Kelly, his
confession states.
Kelly agreed, Greenwaldt ASSERT.
ed in the confession, ,1nd when
Greenwaldt suggested Fsiday, NO
vember IL, Kelly, the confession
states, replied that he had . date
with a woman and with me, it's
pleasure before business"
Then. the confession explains. It
was agreed that the deed be com.
mitted on the night Of November
and Creenwaldt drove in from Mt.
Horeb. gave, his wife money to 90
shopping and checked over the de-
Il was happy day for Mrs.
(Contirue N -ege two)