Painter, 57
Admits Killing
Girl Aged 4
NEW YORK, Aug (AP)—Si
mon Elmore, 57-year-old WPA
project house painter with a po
lice record of drunken brawling
and wife beating, was reported
by police to have confessed to
jthe, murder of 4-year-old Joan
I^u^eba near . Squth Beach, S. I.
He also confessed to an attempt
ed criminal assault upon the
child, the police said.
Elmore, a hard sullen-appear
ing man, startled the summer
coliyiy at South Beach by appear
ing in the rear of a group of
oottages lining the marshland and
announced that he had found the
body of the Kuleba child. Hisj
announcement was made while
policemen were grappling in the
Narrows of South Beach for the
body of the girl, who had been
missing Since the morning of the
day before after she had gone
to the beach from the near-by
home of her aunt, Mrs. Grace
l^esa ndi.
Little Joan was strangled with
the shoulder straps of her red
bathing suit and left face down
in the cellar door of the aban
doned shack in the lonely marsh.
She was the only child of a Man
hattan electrician of small means
and was extraordinarily vivacious
and attractive.
Elmore’s confession is reported
by detectives to have been made
after he had been confronted by
William Frick, a chauffeur. The
chauffeur told the police he had
seen Elmore with Joan on the
beachfront at South Beach be
tween 12:12 and 12:15 p.m. Thurs
day afternoon. Elmore was walk
ing south along the beach hold
ing the child by the hand, Frick
said.
Frick said that he paid little
or no attention to the child and
the man at first. Yesterday, how
ever, he saw the picture of the
child and another of Elmore in a
newspaper. He was certain that
they were the two he had seen on
Thursday.
When taken to face Elmore, he
identified him without hesitation
as the man he had seen with the
child.
When Elmore heard Frick ident
jfy him he showed the first signs
pf emotion that he had display
ed since he was seized. He flush
ed and broke into sobs. “I can’t
stand it any longer. I want to
confess,” he saud.
, While the police declined to
give out exact quotations from
the story that they say Elmore
told, enough of his reported ad
missions were given to reporters
to permit a more or less accurate
reconstruction of the story which
the police call his confession.
Elmore said he went to South
Beach from his home at about 11
o'clock Thursday morning. He
had with him a milk bottle con
taining a grasshopper. While
walking along the sands at the
margin of the Narrow's, he saw
the little girl playing in the sand.
He walked over to her, showed
her the grasshopper in the bottle
and after he had watched her
face light up with amusement,
took her by the hand and walked
back from the beach to Seaside
Boulevard.
Going south on the thorough
fare to Olympic Boulevard in
the rear of the bungalow colony
he took her out across the marsh
to the deserted house. He led her
to the cellar, tore off her bathing
suit, attempted to assault her,
and strangled her with the bath
ing suit's shoulder straps.
When she was dead he placed
a section of the brick wall on her
back. Then he went home and re
mained there until noon yester
day when he returned to the
shack so that he might come out
of it and run tow'ard the bunga
1 nvs with the alarm of the crime.
Elmore has a police record of
arrests for petty offenses, which,
however, included no sex charg
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TEXAS WOMEN WIN
MORE RIGHTS
AUSTIN, Texas, (AP) — The
women of Texas have won an
other fight to obtain equal rights
with men in the field of politics.
The legislature this summer
overwhelming passed a bill mak
ing the personnel of the state
democratic executive committee
! alf men and half women. Texas
is preponderously democratic.
Mark Twain is said to have re
marked that when at the age of
H he considered his father so
igncrant that he could hardly
bear to have him around; but
upon reaching 21 was surprised
a; what the old man had learned
in 7 years.
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