Blaine Snouffer late Wednesday afternoon [11 Apr] pleaded guilty to first degree murder when arraigned before [Justice of the Peace] Squire E.G. Fickel [sic], at Worthington.
'When she told me last night [10 Apr] that she was thru with me and that she'd get the law on me if I didn't stop bothering her, I told her I'd beat her to it -- and I did.'
That's the way Blaine Snouffer, 26, farmhand of near Linworth, coolly explained his murder of Mary Augusta Sickles, 15, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Snyder, High and North streets, Worthington, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Angered because she rejected his attentions, Snouffer went to the Snyder home where she was staying, broke down two doors which were locked in his face, and cut the girl's throat with a razor.
'She told me last week,' he said, 'that she'd give me a date Tuesday night. When I called her up she refused, saying she couldn't go with two at the same time. She had gotten another fellow.
'I told her I'd 'get her' and hung up. Then I went home and got the razor, jumped on the motorcycle and went to Snyder's. Miss Clara Boardman tried to keep me out of the house.
'I wouldn't have killed her so quick, I guess, if I hadn't had to kick down the two doors.... She was in an upstairs room and didn't have a chance to get away from me.'
For the murder of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Augusta Sickles, at Worthington, near here, April 10, Blaine Snouffer, 28, farm hand, paid the death penalty in the electric chair at the penitentiary here shortly after midnight.
Altho Snouffer said yesterday that he was glad to die to be with his sweetheart again, he replied, 'Nothing to say,' after he had been strapped in the chair.
'When she told me last night [10 Apr] that she was thru with me and that she'd get the law on me if I didn't stop bothering her, I told her I'd beat her to it -- and I did.'
That's the way Blaine Snouffer, 26, farmhand of near Linworth, coolly explained his murder of Mary Augusta Sickles, 15, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Snyder, High and North streets, Worthington, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Angered because she rejected his attentions, Snouffer went to the Snyder home where she was staying, broke down two doors which were locked in his face, and cut the girl's throat with a razor.
'She told me last week,' he said, 'that she'd give me a date Tuesday night. When I called her up she refused, saying she couldn't go with two at the same time. She had gotten another fellow.
'I told her I'd 'get her' and hung up. Then I went home and got the razor, jumped on the motorcycle and went to Snyder's. Miss Clara Boardman tried to keep me out of the house.
'I wouldn't have killed her so quick, I guess, if I hadn't had to kick down the two doors.... She was in an upstairs room and didn't have a chance to get away from me.'
For the murder of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Augusta Sickles, at Worthington, near here, April 10, Blaine Snouffer, 28, farm hand, paid the death penalty in the electric chair at the penitentiary here shortly after midnight.
Altho Snouffer said yesterday that he was glad to die to be with his sweetheart again, he replied, 'Nothing to say,' after he had been strapped in the chair.
Blaine Snouffer late Wednesday afternoon [11 Apr] pleaded guilty to first degree murder when arraigned before [Justice of the Peace] Squire E.G. Fickel [sic], at Worthington.
'When she told me last night [10 Apr] that she was thru with me and that she'd get the law on me if I didn't stop bothering her, I told her I'd beat her to it -- and I did.'
That's the way Blaine Snouffer, 26, farmhand of near Linworth, coolly explained his murder of Mary Augusta Sickles, 15, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Snyder, High and North streets, Worthington, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Angered because she rejected his attentions, Snouffer went to the Snyder home where she was staying, broke down two doors which were locked in his face, and cut the girl's throat with a razor.
'She told me last week,' he said, 'that she'd give me a date Tuesday night. When I called her up she refused, saying she couldn't go with two at the same time. She had gotten another fellow.
'I told her I'd 'get her' and hung up. Then I went home and got the razor, jumped on the motorcycle and went to Snyder's. Miss Clara Boardman tried to keep me out of the house.
'I wouldn't have killed her so quick, I guess, if I hadn't had to kick down the two doors.... She was in an upstairs room and didn't have a chance to get away from me.'
For the murder of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Augusta Sickles, at Worthington, near here, April 10, Blaine Snouffer, 28, farm hand, paid the death penalty in the electric chair at the penitentiary here shortly after midnight.
Altho Snouffer said yesterday that he was glad to die to be with his sweetheart again, he replied, 'Nothing to say,' after he had been strapped in the chair.
'When she told me last night [10 Apr] that she was thru with me and that she'd get the law on me if I didn't stop bothering her, I told her I'd beat her to it -- and I did.'
That's the way Blaine Snouffer, 26, farmhand of near Linworth, coolly explained his murder of Mary Augusta Sickles, 15, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Snyder, High and North streets, Worthington, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Angered because she rejected his attentions, Snouffer went to the Snyder home where she was staying, broke down two doors which were locked in his face, and cut the girl's throat with a razor.
'She told me last week,' he said, 'that she'd give me a date Tuesday night. When I called her up she refused, saying she couldn't go with two at the same time. She had gotten another fellow.
'I told her I'd 'get her' and hung up. Then I went home and got the razor, jumped on the motorcycle and went to Snyder's. Miss Clara Boardman tried to keep me out of the house.
'I wouldn't have killed her so quick, I guess, if I hadn't had to kick down the two doors.... She was in an upstairs room and didn't have a chance to get away from me.'
For the murder of his 15-year-old sweetheart, Augusta Sickles, at Worthington, near here, April 10, Blaine Snouffer, 28, farm hand, paid the death penalty in the electric chair at the penitentiary here shortly after midnight.
Altho Snouffer said yesterday that he was glad to die to be with his sweetheart again, he replied, 'Nothing to say,' after he had been strapped in the chair.
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