Slain Woman Is Buried In Ada Cemetery
KENTON, Jan. 6 - Mrs. Helen Grace West, 58, whose lifeless body was found by Pittsburgh detectives in a hotel room in that city last Wednesday was buried in Woodlawn cemetery at Ada this afternoon. Rev. Walter Condon, pastor of the Ada Presbyterian church, conducted services at the grave.
Miss Agnes West, 34, daughter of Mrs. West, is being held by Pittsburgh police in a hospital there. She is suffering from back and internal injuries, received when she jumped from a window in the hotel after having strangled her mother with a scarf, Pittsburgh police reported.
Mrs. West was secretary of the West Virginia university health service, a position which she had held for more than a decade. Miss West was assistant student librarian at the university. They made their home in Morgantown, W. Va.
The body arrived in Ada today at 3:21 p.m. from Morgantown. Mrs. West was the sister-in-law of Mrs. Earl Wolfrom and Vic West, both of Ada. Her husband, Kenneth West, is buried in the Ada cemetery. Her mother, Mrs. R. Britton Russell lives in Pemberville, Ohio.
Mrs. West was the former Miss Helen Grace Russell and she and her husband were both graduated from Ohio Northern university in 1903. They were married in 1904.
The alleged slaying was not discovered until about 3 a.m. Wednesday when police investigated Miss West's leap from the hotel window to a tin roofing over an areaway. They found the mother's body, fully clothed, on the floor of the room.
Detectives quoted Miss West as saying later: "I was selfish and unstable. I did not want mother to go thur life alone and decided I would take her with me."
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, January 7, 1940)
KENTON, Jan. 6 - Mrs. Helen Grace West, 58, whose lifeless body was found by Pittsburgh detectives in a hotel room in that city last Wednesday was buried in Woodlawn cemetery at Ada this afternoon. Rev. Walter Condon, pastor of the Ada Presbyterian church, conducted services at the grave.
Miss Agnes West, 34, daughter of Mrs. West, is being held by Pittsburgh police in a hospital there. She is suffering from back and internal injuries, received when she jumped from a window in the hotel after having strangled her mother with a scarf, Pittsburgh police reported.
Mrs. West was secretary of the West Virginia university health service, a position which she had held for more than a decade. Miss West was assistant student librarian at the university. They made their home in Morgantown, W. Va.
The body arrived in Ada today at 3:21 p.m. from Morgantown. Mrs. West was the sister-in-law of Mrs. Earl Wolfrom and Vic West, both of Ada. Her husband, Kenneth West, is buried in the Ada cemetery. Her mother, Mrs. R. Britton Russell lives in Pemberville, Ohio.
Mrs. West was the former Miss Helen Grace Russell and she and her husband were both graduated from Ohio Northern university in 1903. They were married in 1904.
The alleged slaying was not discovered until about 3 a.m. Wednesday when police investigated Miss West's leap from the hotel window to a tin roofing over an areaway. They found the mother's body, fully clothed, on the floor of the room.
Detectives quoted Miss West as saying later: "I was selfish and unstable. I did not want mother to go thur life alone and decided I would take her with me."
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, January 7, 1940)
Slain Woman Is Buried In Ada Cemetery
KENTON, Jan. 6 - Mrs. Helen Grace West, 58, whose lifeless body was found by Pittsburgh detectives in a hotel room in that city last Wednesday was buried in Woodlawn cemetery at Ada this afternoon. Rev. Walter Condon, pastor of the Ada Presbyterian church, conducted services at the grave.
Miss Agnes West, 34, daughter of Mrs. West, is being held by Pittsburgh police in a hospital there. She is suffering from back and internal injuries, received when she jumped from a window in the hotel after having strangled her mother with a scarf, Pittsburgh police reported.
Mrs. West was secretary of the West Virginia university health service, a position which she had held for more than a decade. Miss West was assistant student librarian at the university. They made their home in Morgantown, W. Va.
The body arrived in Ada today at 3:21 p.m. from Morgantown. Mrs. West was the sister-in-law of Mrs. Earl Wolfrom and Vic West, both of Ada. Her husband, Kenneth West, is buried in the Ada cemetery. Her mother, Mrs. R. Britton Russell lives in Pemberville, Ohio.
Mrs. West was the former Miss Helen Grace Russell and she and her husband were both graduated from Ohio Northern university in 1903. They were married in 1904.
The alleged slaying was not discovered until about 3 a.m. Wednesday when police investigated Miss West's leap from the hotel window to a tin roofing over an areaway. They found the mother's body, fully clothed, on the floor of the room.
Detectives quoted Miss West as saying later: "I was selfish and unstable. I did not want mother to go thur life alone and decided I would take her with me."
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, January 7, 1940)
KENTON, Jan. 6 - Mrs. Helen Grace West, 58, whose lifeless body was found by Pittsburgh detectives in a hotel room in that city last Wednesday was buried in Woodlawn cemetery at Ada this afternoon. Rev. Walter Condon, pastor of the Ada Presbyterian church, conducted services at the grave.
Miss Agnes West, 34, daughter of Mrs. West, is being held by Pittsburgh police in a hospital there. She is suffering from back and internal injuries, received when she jumped from a window in the hotel after having strangled her mother with a scarf, Pittsburgh police reported.
Mrs. West was secretary of the West Virginia university health service, a position which she had held for more than a decade. Miss West was assistant student librarian at the university. They made their home in Morgantown, W. Va.
The body arrived in Ada today at 3:21 p.m. from Morgantown. Mrs. West was the sister-in-law of Mrs. Earl Wolfrom and Vic West, both of Ada. Her husband, Kenneth West, is buried in the Ada cemetery. Her mother, Mrs. R. Britton Russell lives in Pemberville, Ohio.
Mrs. West was the former Miss Helen Grace Russell and she and her husband were both graduated from Ohio Northern university in 1903. They were married in 1904.
The alleged slaying was not discovered until about 3 a.m. Wednesday when police investigated Miss West's leap from the hotel window to a tin roofing over an areaway. They found the mother's body, fully clothed, on the floor of the room.
Detectives quoted Miss West as saying later: "I was selfish and unstable. I did not want mother to go thur life alone and decided I would take her with me."
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, January 7, 1940)
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