oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-04

SECOND SECTION TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. KELS ANXIOUS TO RECEIVE SENTENCE STOCKTON, Calif., Oct. 4.—After hearing three witnesses, the San Joaquin county grand jury summoned in special session today, indicted Alex A. Kels, supposedly wealthy Lodi cattle man, for the murder of an unknown man who was buried as Kels when the latter fled in an alleged effort to perpetrate a $105,000 insurance fraud. The proceedings of the grand jury were brief. James E. Nelson, autopsy surgeon, of Lodi, testified as to the burned body which was recovered from the Kels automobile after its incineration in a hay stack fire. George Eaton, a deputy sheriff, testified as to the circumstances surrounding the finding of the body. Then Edwin S. Parker, shorthand reporter of the district attorney's office, appeared before the jury and read the confession made by Kels in Eureka that he had lured an itinerant worker to a shack on his ranch, killed him and later burned the body in the hay stack fire. Falkens We're Saying New Ha A Special $9.85 Show Room Models from One of California's Best Makers sy surgeon, of Lodi, testified as to the burned body which was recovered from the Kels automobile after its incineration in a hay stack fire. George Eaton, a deputy sheriff, testified as to the circumstances surrounding the finding of the body. Then Edwin S. Parker, shorthand reporter of the district attorney's office, appeared before the jury and read the confession made by Kels in Eureka that he had lured an itinerant worker to a shack on his ranch, killed him and later burned the body in the hay stack fire. Whether Kels will plead guilty late today or tomorrow is up to the prisoner. The indictment was returned before Judge B. M. Young but no date was set for Kels' arraignment. All precautions are being taken at the jail to prevent an attempt at suicide on the part of Kels. Meanwhile officers are pressing their inquiry as to the identity of the unknown worker who was buried as Kels. STOCKTON, Calif., Oct. 4.—With Alex Kels, confessed murderer of an unknown itinerant worker, back in jail facing the formal filing of a murder charge, San Joaquin County authorities today turned their attention to solving the mystery of the identity of the man who was buried as Kels. Indications were that justice would move speedily. Arrangements were made for the grand jury to meet this morning and that body was expected to return an indictment charging first degree murder. Kels will be arraigned immediately and if he holds firm in his expressed intention of pleading guilty may enter his plea late today. "McVic or McVickers, I think his name was," Kels told Sheriff W. B. Riecks. "I got him from the employment agency for the purpose of killing him and because he was about my height." "One man for Kels" reads the entry on the employment agency docket. Search for boarding houses has revealed no registry of either "McVic or McVickers." One rooming house was able to produce no register and it is possible that the penniless itinerant whose search for work led to his death, may have been a lodger there. Public sentiment is running high against Kels. This was evidenced shortly before midnight last night when Kels arrived here from Eureka where he had been arrested. He was taken into the jail by a rear entrance but a crowd of several hundred persons caught sight of him thru the bars and hissed him. At the same time the entire community seems to be in deep sympathy with Mrs. Kels, the innocent beneficiary of her husband's death plot. She is ignorant of his capture and is expected momentarily to become a $9.85 Show Room Models from One of California's Best Makers —REPRESENTED IN THIS GROUP ARE OVER 50 MODEL HATS, MADE FOR THE LATE FALL OPENING OF A VERY HIGH GRADE MAKER OF MILLINERY. THE MATERIALS, TRIMMINGS, AND COLORS ARE THOSE THAT ARE IN DEMAND RIGHT NOW, AS YOU WILL READILY AGREE WHEN YOU SEE THEM FRIDAY. 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He asked that his little daughter be brot to see him. Announcement was made today by counsel for Mrs. Kels that the $105,000 insurance money has not as yet been paid Mrs. Kels. It was said her condition was serious due to the expected motherhood, but her death is not expected, as rumored. "We have the evidence to convict, even eliminating his confession" the district attorney said. Kels expressed a desire to plead guilty en route here and "take his medicine." He, from the time of his confession until his incarceration in jail here, has been seemingly callous of his own fate. "I took a life and I'll give one for it," he remarked once. By a curious irony of fate, the insurance money now withheld from Mrs. Kels, will be paid to her, according to legal opinion, in case Kels pays the supreme penalty for his crime on the gallows. Kels told the officers he was "in for about $75,000" and had hoped the insurance money would "fix his wife and child comfortably." He denied that it was even his intention to return and enjoy the fruits of his plot, had it been successful. The authorities are still interested in the strange condition of Kels' mind which impelled him to return to California after being in Texas. However, the authorities seout the theory that Kels is insane and will combat any plea of that sort that may be offered in his behalf. All along the route from Eureka to Stockton crowds gathered at the denots to see Kels. At Santa Rosa two small nieces sobbingly asked him "why he did it." Kels affectionately embraced the children and tried to quiet them by saying "It's all right." It will come out all right." THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer Anaheim, Calif., Thursday, October 4, 1923. Falkenstein's Falkenstein’s October Message Is To Saying It With Values! 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