The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-17
UNABLE TO GIVE
ANY REASON FOR
KILLING VICTlI
Adolph HotelIng Is Spirited
From Flint Jail After Max
ing Confession
TAKEN TO STATE PRISON
Mans Outstanding Character
istic Was His Apparent Piety
Deacon in Church

Flint, Mich. Jan. 17.-lR)-
Adolph Hotelling, q l7-year-old
church deacon Of Owosso, Mich,
has confessed kidnapping, Staying
and dissecting the body Of little
Dorothy Schneider, but why he did
it is, by his confession, AZ incon,.
prehensible to him as to the au-
thorities.
Officers, however, had little time
to ponder over motives last night.
because Hotelling's arrest was fol-
lowed by such an outburst of public
indignation that all the ingenuity
Of police was needed to save HOTEL
ing from mob violence.
The Flint jail was found no safe
place for him, mob forming al
most as soon as word Of the arrest
spread. Hotelling was taken secret-
~ from the jail. driven by motor
car under heavy guard, to the state
capital, Lansing, and finally, Short
~ after midnight, locked II Z cell
at the state reformatory at Iona.
Mob Charges Jail
No sooner had the cavalcadc OF
state police and sheriff's officers
cleared the Flint city limits with
their prisoner last night than .
mob Of 10000 persons charged the
Jail, seeking to wrest Hotelling
from the authorities.
The assault was met by tesr ~eass-
bombs hurled into the mob By
guards. Brickbats and q few gum
shots were the mob's answer. Tho
increasing strength of the attack
ers led to the calling out Of the ma
tional guard which succeeded ii
clearing the streets shortly after
midnight. 41sA
Hotelling, father Of five children,
and an active worker in the Owosso
Church Of Christ, is carpenter. It
was a fellow workman's tip that led
to the arrest. Hotelling had
aroused suspicion by constant dis.
cussion of the Schneider case, and
st one time said, polYce were told,
that he could lay his hands on the
child's slayer.
Denies Charges ut First
When officers went to his home
Hotelling at first denied the
charges. He hroke down and con-
fessed, the officers asserted, after
being identified by q farmer who
had helped him extricate m auto
mobile from a mud hole near the
place where Dorothy Schneider's
body was found.
The automobile which was used
for the kidnapping was found at the
Hotelling place. It had been
freshly repainted.
Hotelling's confession, rs given
out, said that he stopped the child
while she was returning from kim
dergarten at Mt. Morris. near here.
Hotelling said he was in Flint at
the time looking for work.
Il don't know what came over
me-" the confession said.
II was driving along and saw
Dorothy. got her into the car
thinking l would take her home. She
cried. l drove her to the Snyder
road (the road in which his car be-
came mired) and carried her part
way across the field. She still
cried and wanted to 20 home. She
said she would tell her father. SO
! pulled out my knife and stabbed
her twice.
II had been thinking night after
night Of the Hickman case. turning
over in my mind the details Of the
crimc."
Attacked Children Before
The possible bearing Of the Hick.
man case was dispelled later. po-
lice said, when Hotelling confessed
to similar attacks on children over
a period Of years. Two of these at
tacks. according to officials, oc-
Cured in Owosso. One was on I
two-year-old child and the other on
an eight-year-old girl.
Hotelling's acquaintances we're
thunder struck at his arrest. John
Boyd. Grand Rapids attorney, re-
called Hotelling o. ! modest farm
boy. the son Of . pioneer Kalkasla,
Mich, settler. Hotelling, Boyd
said, worked on his fathers farm