The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31
Let Them Dig
 All They Want
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! swift running Elk creek nearby 1 which is being dragged systemat. ically, or sealed below the cement floor of the garage Powers built two months ago and used later al his butcher house.
 Bones dug up nearby are being examined to determine if they art | from the human skeleton. Meanwhile, the thorough system and care Powers used in the exc cution of his crimes are being re- vealed by his own word, by letters by word from relatives of known victims, and in women's letters arriving daily.
 | The police version of Powers story of the execution of the five is:
 "On August l took all five tc the garage. 1 put the two womer and the two girls in cells in tho ] basement under the garage, leav' ing the boy upstairs.
 That night l went to the gar age and hanged the two women. let the boy watch 1t. When ht screamed, l hit him over the head with a hammer until he was dead Then I killed the two girls and buried them all at once. This story and confessions of tho | murders were obtained after police mistreatcd Powers, according tc Edward Law, counsel for Powers He said preliminary hearing might be arranged for his client during the day. No date has been set for return of a writ against Sheriff Grinny and other police officers he accused of barring hin as counsel from Powers cell. Police said the cells in whicf Powers had placed his victims . were sound proof. And upstairs he had built n crudely designed scaffold. The victims were led tt their execution there, one by one | Powers story to them indicated Bones and other evidence lead. ing to Il continuation of the hun' for more victims were found 1T the ashes of Il cottage near tho Powers home. It had been de stroyed by a mysterious fire. It wal on Powers property.
 Police revealed letters writer to Mrs Lemke who married Augus Lemke in Worcester, Mass, ant has been living at N0rthboro, Mass with q sister, Mrs Chester Fleming Lemke Is reported stil living in $ Paul.
 one letter part of which Is un printable said:
 | You certainly are n well pre- served woman, to my way 0 thinking, just the right size ant weight. l never did take any fanc! to q slim woman, but prefer then plump.
 "I suppose you have already be gun the books 1 gave you"
 They were volumes on sex psy choogy by Havelock Ellis and ID w. Y. Robie.
 "The chapter on The Art o Love in Robie's book is the mos valuable. Dr Robie. who ts a yer! good friend of mine, tells me h' has ha< letters from ministers ask Ing If N,cy could have that chap ter reprinted in pamphlet form.
 A description of the contents o that chapter and similar chapter from other books followed.
 "When you have read some O these books and know q little more about sex. would like to sugges that we exchange our sex histor les"
 There was much of that type o suggestion in Powers letter, whicf closed with this comment:
 q am sure that after you haV' read the books loaned you, vol will see in marriage something beautiful and wholesome. l WI say bye bye for this time. A. C. M.'
 Mrs Lemke's brother-in-law de scribcd two letters purportedl. from her after she left Northbor' with Powers. They were signed "Dorothy" One from Uniontown Pa. told of the end of the mar riage venture, and the other iron Chicago snid Mrs Lemke was abou to start n European trip as wo mans companion.
 It was recalled that neighbor of Mrs Richer had been told D! Powers that she had gone to Eu rope. It waB believed the two hat been brought together, then, un der the pretcnse that one was t' be companion to the other on th' European tour.
 My wife thought the letter
 
 were in Dorothy's handwriting, Fleming said. "I thought tho writ ing was too small and must hav' been copied. The words were spelled too good for Dorothy.
 Mrs Lemkc was born in Ger many. She divorced Adolph Lemk' in st Paul" Fleming said.
 Another sister of Mrs Lemke Mrs Eva Nelson was quoted II Ltoston as saying:
 Dorothy told me she was writ ing through that matrimonia agency for thrill. l warned he of the danger but she Jus llaughcr," she said.
 It was indicated Mrs Lemk' also obtained her first husband through a matrimonial agency.
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