The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-07-14
Staying CASE
BY CONFESSION

car with Henry Grimes that police
are endeavoring to establish.
Abram Grimes, officers declare
told story in Jerks and starts
and one that 10 not entirely clear
as to all details Of the death Of
the child.
Grimes was permitted to return
to his home after cross examina'
ton last night but will be ques.
toned again today, police say.
Abram Grimes. in a written state.
,ment to authorities OF SpottsyIvania
county, said:
Before the drowning and about
three weeks after the Baker boy
had disappeared, my brother, Henry
Willis Grimes. had a talk with me.
He seemed to be dreadfully worried
about something; did not act in his
natural way.
Commented on MOOdiness
HE would hang his head down,
often with his face resting in his
hands. Some of US at home COM
mented on the unnatural way III
which he acted.
II asked him one evening after
he came from his work at the gar
den at BromptOn, while lac was
working on his automobile at home,
what was the matter. He replied
that he had some trouble down
town. I asked him what it was.
He said, oh, nothing / told
him to come off with that kind of
stuff and he said, I struck a boy
I asked him il he killed him. He
said. L broke him up pretty bad
said, What did you do? Why
didn't you take him to The hos
pital?'
Afraid to Tell .
at was afraid to because / was
afraid I would get into some trou.
BILE said You should have carried
him to some place for treatment
| asked him what he did with him.
He replied, I carried him away
and put him in some bushes the
night after / struck him. He did
not tell me the whereabouts of the
bushes.
II said to him, I suppose you
put him in the river, as was stated
in the newspapers Then he said,
No didn't put him in the river
Later on. possible week, was
again talking to him about the
boy he ran over and he said, L got
a sack, or some sacks Il can't re-
call which,, and some stones and
weighted him down and put him in
the river
Just before he said this / told
him I suppose he had put the body
in the river and he said he had.
then said to him. i didn't know a
body would sink and then he told
oh H. H.
weighted down with stones.
Said He Might Go Away
about week before my brother
drowned he told me. he might go
away and il he did could have
his car and his job.
my brother, Willis Grimes, 1--WE
all called him Billy would get off
from his work about 5 o'clock. He
had a Ford rooster. I did not know
he had been down town the even
ing the Baker boy disappeared, until
he had the talk with me about three
weeks afterward.
I'm talking about his striking
the boy. I said to him I suppose
II was the Baker bOy?' He said,
1T might have been
He had a way OF avoiding ans
WGTlnR u 4uSSSAOA AA q NAA WI
ner.
"Mr. Jackson Sullivan, who
worked at Brcmpton, told me Billy
pcted in a queer manner. That
he would work in the garden in
a fast manner and look around,
drop his hoe, leave the work, go
mt TO the road and look around !
In a mysterious way and then sud |
denly go back to his work and
then do the same thing again In
a short while.
sister Had Heard 1t
after my brother was drowned,
can't say just how long, one of |
NV sisters told me she had heard |
hat Billy was the one who had
tilled the Baker boy.
This Is all / know about it. If
r knew more / would gladly tell
,ou This statement 10 voluntarily
made by me.
signedl "ARRAM CRIMES"