Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Body of Woman Believed to
Be Mrs. Dorothy PreSsIer
Lemke, Worcester, Mass,
in Grave Near Garage.
WIDOW AND CHILDREN
Staying is ADMITTED
Beat Quartet With Hammer and
strangled Them With Rope He
Tells Police. Human Bones Are
Reported in Burned Cottage
Near Site of Killings.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, w. Va, August
pa fifth body, that of a wom-
an, was found tonight by police
officers grubbing in the earth
about the garage near here where
Harry F. Powers today confessed
he hammered and Strangled
widow and her three children to
death last month.
shes a Chicago woman. but
don't know her name" Powers
told Sheriff w. B. Grimm when in
formed of the latest discovery. His
statement was accepted as confess
sion that the woman, too, was
among the victims of his matri-
n1onial agency killings.
That's the last one" he added
later. There are no more out
there"
Ofacers arriving at the jail with
news of the discovery found
Powers playing poker with other
prisoners, with matches for chips.
The latest victim was Stocky,
black haired. She had been
killed by the twisting of webbing
about her neck as her hands were
dashed before her to prevent re-
sistance. She had been dropped,
without Semblance of Shroud or
coffin, into shallow grave near
where were found late Friday the
bodies of Mrs. Asia Eicher, Chi
cago widow, and her three chill
dren, Harry, Greta and Anabel
Al bank book found in one Of
the many trunks Powers had
stored IN the garage he built at
Quiet Dell, four miles from here,
made police believe that the newly
discovered victim was Mrs. Dor
otnea Pressler Lemke Of Worces-
ter. Mass, one of the rzany women
10 whom Powers, describing him.
self as Cornelius o. Pierson,
wealthy and loyelorn civil en-
gineer, had corresponded through
matrimonial agencies.
Crowd Threatening.
Digging at the scene went forward
after a halt while the woman'S body
vas lifted from its grave. and while
police pushed back crowd that in
creaSingIy threatening, pressed about
the officials as they dug
The woman whose body was discov-
cred tonight apparently, the coroner
said, had been buried little more than
three weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Powers slept--or tried To
sleep-in the Harrison County jail, 4
miles away. heavy guards pushing back
the turbulent crowd that swarmed
about the Jail doors, seeming, observers
said, TO lack only leadership that would
hurl its force against the officers in ar
effort to wrest the prisoner from them.
Demands poured upon Prosecuting
Attorney w. z. Morris 70 call a special
term of court 70 Try Powers immediate
ly, the possible penalty death By hang
ing The attorney, however, said he
could not take upon himself the pre-
rogratives Of Criminal Court Judge
John G. Southern now in camp near
Washington. Unless a special term is
called Powers viii not be tried until the
regular Nopembeg term Of court.
court order requiring Harrison
Cotnty authorities 70 permit Powers
full access 10 legal counsel was issued
by Judge Harry Shaw q Marion Cir
cult Court in Fairmont, w. Va, to-
might
The order followed presentation Of a
petition by J. Edward Law, Cizrksburg
attorney and counsel for Powers, charg-
ing that the accused had been denied
permission 70 confer with counsel and
had been subjected to abuse by police.
Sought Woman's Property.
Powers, -, sticky and-untu late
today-urbane matrimonial agency cor
respondent had confessed only a few
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