Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-25
GRIMES

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the BUM Bedwell. and another
man. dark and swarthy, VIII.
might have been a Mexican.
Suspect Is Arrested
In what was hailed by the
press as excellent police work
the sheriff's deputies inter.
rogated the owners of the eat
ing place. John and Minnie
Duros, who said they saw Bonnie
and the Grimes sisters in their
restaurant very early on jan
uary 6, a Sunday morning. That
would have been nine days after
the girls disappeared. Bonnie had
once worked for the DuroSes as
a dishwasher.
Besides girls, Bonnie had two
known weaknesses: alcohol and
movies. The deputies picked him
up at the Star and Garter
Theater, in the same slum area,
viewing 10000 Years in Sing
Sing"
They took him back to Mr.. and
Mrs. Duros. who reproached him
with an II told you So" The
couple had warned him earlier,
they said. that the girls he had
with him were the missing sis
tiers. Bonnie was locked UP.
Two days went by. during
which the prisoner made two
incomplete confessions and re-
quotations. Then, on Saturday
January 26, Bonnie confessed
verbally again. He said he met
the girls January THE day
after Mr.. and Mrs. Duros claimed
to have seen them together,
Bonnie said he encountered the
sisters at a bar with another
man. and the foursome set out
on weeks debauch.
On the night Of January 10. he
said, after eating hotdogs and
drinking beer with them. he and
his male companion drove the
Grimes sisters out to the forest
preserves. When the girls be-
latedly resisted their advances
Bonnie related, he and the other
man knocked them out and I'M
dressed them. He (Bennie) Their
placed their bodies on the side
of the road.
Re-enacted Crime
On January e.. Bonnie alsC
visited the scene OF The crime anc
re-enacted the death drama
Sheriff Lehman has vivid rec.
objection of this occasion.
On the way to the scene, hi
says, Bonnie directed a car con.
tanning the sheriff and his tor
aides to within $50 feet of thu
spot marked X" There he got
out of the car. asked for a
fiashlight, spotted some tall tree,
and. using these as a guide, lee
the party without hesitation Il
the exact point where the bodie.
had been found. At no stage
Sheriff Lehman says, did Bonnie
benefit by coaching.
On the way to the scene, Ben.
ME had told the sheriff that al
one Of the county police station,
the last two letters in the neor
Police" sign were burned out
the night he passed by with the
girls on the way to the foresI
preserves. The sheriff and hi,
party had not known this, ane
the lights we're not out now.
The sheriff checked. The two
letters had indeed been defective
on January 10. There was 9
maintenance record in the f1lt
noting that repair man hac
been called.
About midnight Mr.. Lohmar
called IN States Attorney Ben
iamin Adamowski and, with hi.
top aides and a stenographei
present. Bennie's formal confess
sion was taken.
Bennie's Mother Visits
Mr.. Adamowski personally
conducted the Interrogation
After the confession, he told the
press that "unquestionablyo Ben
ME was one Of the two men who
killed the Grimes girls. He added
chat he had enough evidence fol
an indictment.
Mrs. Ethel Bradberry, Bennie's
mother. came to visit him the
day after the confession was an.
nounced. With her was a law.
yer. David Z. Bradshaw. vice.
chairman OF the Young Demo.