NEARLY “PERFECT” CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 1

NEARLY “PERFECT” CRIME

MENTALITY OF MURDERER. CONFESSION AND A MEAL. LOS ANGELES, June 16. Airs Grace Grogan’s husband died two years ago, after making a. couple of million dollars in oil speculations. She straightway set about acquiring a handsome new husband who would help her look alter her fortune, and also the interests of her nineleen-year-old hem, Patrick. Dr Thomas A’omig, a leading Los Angelos dentist, appeared to lil 1 the specifications, but he had hardly married her before ho began plotting her death and the elimination of Patrick from his father’s estate. All this is contained in a romarnable confession obtained from Young, following a .long; search by the police for the body of the late Aire Grogan Young, who mysteriously disappeared in February.. Young killed his wife and placed her body in a cistern alongside their country bungalow. He then euhsted Patrick’s innocent help to mix cement and fill the cistern. so as to encase the body of his mother. Tho confession was obtained under the most, peculiar circumstances. The detectives were withholding food from Young, and he proposed to tell them all if they would take him down town to a good supper. In a leading cabaret, surrounded by dancers and diners, Young whispered his story to tho officers, who since have unearthed tho woman's body from its cement tomb. Airs Grogan Young was strangled to death by soniuofonn dental gas. Ever since her disappearance the police had been following Young, certain that ho would incriminate himself. " Young Dniieved he iutd committed a perfect crime,” said (ho .District Attorney to-day. ‘‘Ho often discussed the AT'Cliutook case in Lineage, and pointed out where Shepherd failed. He, deliberately planned to dispose of his wife, and then get tho, body's citato. When we found recently that he had induced Patrick to make a will in his favor, we. began to be fearful of the boy’s safety; but, like every oilier ‘perfect crime,’ (here was a Haw in it. “At the moment Young dumped the body into the cistern he removed a huge diamond from her finger and gave (Ids to Dorothy Leopold, his office assistant. She almost immediately informed (he police, YVo were sure of Young then.” Young thought himself exceedingly clever to get Pat Grogan to cover Ins mother’s body with cement, “I thought, it a good joke,” he told the police in his confession.