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Page 6 Section 2 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 31, 1957 Bedwell Says HeDidn'tKill Grimes Girls Claims Confession Wns . Forced liy Heiitings From Officers CHICAGO W-7:dward Hennic Bedwell, illiterate young Skid How dishwasher, says lie did not kill llic Grimes sislers and the lengthy statement he cave to sheriff's ofli cials admitting the slayings was ; lie. Bedwell testilied in Criminal lourl yesterday that he signed 14-paEc confession alter four days of questioning because "the slier- 111 s men beat and kicked me." The 21-year-old derelict retract. ed the confession at a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus before Liner Justice Wilbert F. Crowley. His attorney. David E. Hrad lliaw, demanded that Bedwell, who is charged with the murders of the Grimes sisters, Barbara. 15, and Patricia, 13, be admitted lo hail on the ground that liis purported confession is obviously false. Bedwell was on llic wilness aland when the hearing recessed until today. In Ihc statement which Sheriff Joseph Lohman said Bedwell signed, (be Skid Bow drifter re lated that he and a companion named h rank had taken the Grimes sislers on a week-long sex and drinking spree. On Ihc night of Jan. 13, the statement said, they beat the sis ters and dumped their bodies alongside, a rural road southwest of Chicago. Their nude, frozen bodies were found Jan. 22. The girls had been missing from their home since Dec. 28. In his testimony yesterday, Bed well said he had never seen the Grimes girls, lie said he and "Frank" had taken out two girls of Indian descent, who have ver ified Bedwell's story of Ihc dou ble dale. lohman denied Bedwell was beaten and said Bedwell lied on the witness .stand, lie said he still considers Bedwell the prime sus pect in Ihc case "even more so now than when we first look his confession." He did not elaborate. , Bedwell testified that during questioning after he was picked up Jan. 23 he had several times denied any connection with the crime. However, he said he was kicked and slapped by sheriff's officials and threatened with further beatings. "I had seen pictures of the dead bodies and of the scene and I also had the story read to me by a woman in a restaurant. I Bedwell cannot read) and 1 remembered parts nt the story and 1 made it up titling niysclt Into it," he said "1 then used Frank's dcscrlp Hon and occupation, the guy that was witti me with the Indian girls, to he'd figure in as the second guy. Bedwell Identified "Frank" as William C. H'illingham, 2ii, an ac quaintance who now is serving a city Jan senlenco for drunkenness. Wllllnsh.im has admitted he was Willi Bedwell and the Indian girls bul denied having ever seen the Grimes sislers. 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