Evening star., 1932-12-28

only as Shorty" Jumbo" and Slim,
beeside the writer. who said he was an
innocent party to the Staying. and that
the three had forced him to sign pa
per "confessing' that he struck the
fatal blow.
After describing how the writer met
tho other Youths. Jumbo" slim" and
"Shorty" in Jacksonville and arranged
to ride with them to Washington. the
letter said, in part:
Between Petersburg and Richmond
Jumbo was driving. He SAID, Ihere
are four of us and we must have gas.
The next man I meet that's alone
am going to brush against his car ana
we will make him pay us damages.
The next car we met was Chrys,er
sedan with one lone man In 1t. Jumbo
swiped his fender. Neither was hurt.
Both blamed the other for running into
him. Our car had a bad fender that
had been smashed before. Jumbo
claimed SIS damages.
One Used Blackja jack.
They got into an argument. Shorty
ran up and hit the man on the head
with blackjack. The man fell to the
ground ss' Jumbo said to hurry and
put him into our car. which We did.
:. : We drove down the road until we
came to a road leading of the highway.
After driving out OF sight we examined
the man and found him bleeding from
the nose and ears. He was timber.
never spoke and in 10 minutes was dead.
Il know Shorty never intended to
kill him, but he was dead all right, and
we we're all scared to death"
The letter then tells how the four
youths took S33, watch and fountain
pen from the dead mans pockets, COW
cred him with robes and drove until
Washington was sighted. 1t said:
The three got their heads together
and decided it was not safe to let
me leave as We had planned. Jumbo
told us to drive to lonely place near
Hagerstown and camp for the night
and bum and destroy all the man had
on and all he had in his bag and to
bury him in the woods. Shorty was
afraid to trust me and did not want
me to know where he was buried. so
we did not bury him that night but
buried all his clothes and other things,
except when he fell to the ground.
got his glasses and put them IN my
overcoat pocket When they mistrusteo
me I mistrusted them. put the
dead mans pocketbook and one Of
Jumbos bloody gloves in my pocket
with the glasses.
Left Articles in Car.
Jumbo seemed to make all the ar
rangements. They made new
plans. Jumbo was to take our car,
We were to leave 90 minutes later and
drive at 30-mile rate. 1t was under
stood that whoever got to Uniontown
first was to drive out No. 40 and wait
for the others We got there an hour
first While waiting 1 slipped the glasses,
pocketbool and Jumbo's bloody gloves
behind the back seat Of the Chrysler." !"
Then. the letter continued, the party,
using both machines, drove to Columbus.
where Jumbo put the dead mans ma
chine in storage. After this the TOUR
to Chicago The letter continues.
Il don't know where they carried me
except it was to room in large build
ing. in room used as an ONCE. !hey
locked me in the room until o'clock.
I never saw either of them again. About
4 o'clock an old man came In and said
he was sorry for me, but If would sign
a paper and keep my trap closed 1t
would be OK.
Read Long Confession
He then read me long paper say
ing had accidentally killed the man all
by myself, that had hid the body and
gone to Columbus, where I happened to
meet four men giving the strange names; !;
that they brought me here as an accom-
mediation to me and that they didn't
know anything about the trouble until
within few miles of the city. This
paper is all lie, but I was scared SO
bad that 1 signed before an officer.
After signed the paper the old man
gave me $40 and told me to 60 home
and stay there and keep my trap closed. >
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