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December 22nd, 1926.

Mrs. Lillian Fraser, 43 years old, confessed to Captain Dennis Carroll of the West North Avenue police station

that she had paid $137.50 cash in advance to a farmhand bootleggar for the murder of William

Tinney with whom she had been living for several months at 2114 West North Avenue. The imported killer, Laura and Patrick of

Hebron, Indiana, made good on his bargain by beating Tinny to death with the lead pipe on December

7th, according to the confession. He then hauled the body to the rear of 2120 West Huron Street in his automobile

and tossed it out. Mrs. Frazier and Tenney, who was a former boarder in her home, had been known

in the neighborhood as William Lindstrom. He had taken out an insurance policy with the

woman as a beneficiary. She was to get $1,000 if the

death could be called accidental, and the fact was carefully impressed on Patrick, she said.

So well did he do his work that it was only after long investigation that murder was suspected.

It was at first believed that Tiny had slipped on the ice and fractured his skull. The woman told Captain Carroll, quote,

If I got the thousand, it was all right, and it was all right to pay Patrick what I did. It was

less than 14%. She added that she had grown sick of her man

and wanted to go back to her legal husband, Joseph Frazier, 6511 South Union Avenue. She had

already made several visits to the latter and found him ready to forgive and forget, she declared.

A second woman involved in the plot is Mrs. Catherine Castler of Hebron.

She is under arrest with Mrs. Frazier and admits that the story is true.

Mrs. Frazier said that when she first began to consider the murder,

she realized that it would take a strong man to overpower,

Tiny.

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