FOR REVENGE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 4

FOR REVENGE

YOUTH ADMITS MURDER. WOMAN WHO BEFRIENDED HUM. BUFFALO'. Arthur Leonard, IS, to-day confessed he killed Mrs Samuel Jones, wealthy widow who had befriended h.im for many year?/in revenge, because she had sent to the reformatory *» stealing chickens. _ Mrs Jones was beaten foo «*»' with a bedslat at her homo near Jowauta, Fa., December 5, . _ Leonard was arrested! hem last *"- day for possession of a .revolver, under the name of Kelly and had been sentenced to thirty days in the county penitentiary. Pensylvania. officials came here: to question him and to-day, alter 8 MKoseiifield, district attorney of Brad, fordl countv, Penn., had talked to the youth for severaljiours, Leonard confessed to the murder. Leonard said the revolver bojia&j !at the time of the arrest was one he found ju a box car in which he, I had been riding. Burton Jones, son 'of the dead woman, identified! the gun as one belonging to his mother. " Leonardl finally related, police said, thnt he had been semtenced to three years in a reformatory for stealing chickens belonging to Mrs Jones. Eto, was paroled alter a. year, ho said, audi determined to seek revenge.

He went to her home the night o" the murder, ho said, and sought to have it out with her. After he struck Mrs Jones, he said, sh e got her gu"Ho then wrested the gun from, heir and shot her in the breast, hie He said he picked no bed slat and beat her on the head tilt she dropped.

The youth displayed no remorse.