Divorcee Confesses
Killing Politically
Prominent Boy Friend
St. Louis, Mo. U.R) A sultry
voung divorcee, charged with
first degree murder of her po
litically prominent lover, react
ed today with both grief and
defiance
Mrs. June Joy Milton, a 26-
year-old brunette beauty, con-
fessed shooting Walter A. Sie-
bert, 59, in the back Sunday
during" a bedroom argument at
his swank suburban home
"I'm not sorry," the twice
wed Mrs. Milton said. "He had
it coming."
But later she told a jail ma
tron she should have taken her
own life, also, "because I loved
him so much."
After the murder, she confess
ed she set fire to the bed in
which her nude lover was lying
in hopes of destroying the evi
dence.
Charged with Murder
The divorcee, a 'svelte five-foot-three,
was arrested early
Monday and was charged with
.first degree murder and arson
Monday night
Siebert, a widower, was a
prbminent county Republican
leader and chief supervisor for
the St. Louis county highway de
partment. Mrs. Milton said she
met him three years ago at a
New Year's Eve party and be
came his mistress.
She had been visiting him
three times a week, sometimes
spending the night or a week
end, she said.
On Sunday, Mrs. Milton told
officials, Siebert started argu
ing about her dating a traveling
salesman and threatened to
shoot her with a luger. She said
she became frightened, grabbed
the gun, and shot Siebert as he
City Council Accepts
$1,749 for Sewer Use
The Medford city council last
week accepted $1,749 from the
White City Realty company as
settlement for use of a sewer
connection from the area to the
city treatment plant for the pe
riod from 1949 to Jan. 1, 1956.
John Laden, manager of the
realty company, said the firm
installed septic tanks to service
the . various industries in the
Camp White area, when the
leaky line connecting the area
to the Medford line became unsuitable.'
Tuesday, February 14,1958 1
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE ;
lay in bed.
Shooting Occurred Sunday
"I shot him. I killed him," she i
was quoted as saying. "Isn't that
enough?"
Mrs. Milton said she shot Sie
bert at about 2 a.m. Sunday aft
er he came home from a Lincoln
Day meeting of Missouri Repub
lican leaders in St. Louis. She
spent the day moving her cloth
ing, a television set, and Sie
bert's cocker spaniel -to the
home of her mother, and then
returned to destroy the evi
dence, she said.
Siebert's body dropped
through the floor into the base
ment while firemen were bat
tling the blaze. Mrs. Milton was
arrested a short time later at a
tourist court while making .a
telephone call.
Havana Police Hurt
In Demonstrations
Havana, Cuba (U.R) Three
police officers suffered gunshot
wounds yesterday in connection
with daylong student demonstra
tions at the University of Hav
ana. Several students were arrested.
The policemen were shot
while guarding the approaches
to the university. There was no
indication as to who fired the
shots.
The University Students Fed
eration had announced it would
stage a march from the univer
sity to the spot where student
Ruben Batista was wounded fat
ally by police during a demon
stration three years ago.
Philippines Senate
Seeks Claim Settlement
Manila, P.I. (U.R) The
Senate called on President Ra-
nion Mageaysay Monday to seek
settlement by the United States
of Philippine claims amounting
to more than $800,000,000.
A Senate resolution listed the
major claims as $100,000,000 ad
ditional war damage,. $23,800,
000 in gold devaluation refunds,
$458,349 representing currency
confiscated by the Japanese
government from local banks
during the war, $128,000,000 in
coconut oil excise taxes and
$493,274,000 in army claims.
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Boston Former Presidential Assistant Robert Cutler on a re
cent informal evening with President Eisenhower:
"His color was fine . . . his disposition was good. I was im
pressed by his calmness of spirit . . .his calmness of judgment."
' San Francisco Dr. Paul Dudley While, President Eisenhower's
heart specialist, in advice to Americans anxious to avoid a heart
attack: .
"Use your common sense. Take vigorous exercise and work and
at less food' ;
Timberline Lodge, Ore. Adlai Stevenson after escaping In
jury when a snow tractor he was riding at Mt. Hood rolled over
and fell into a gully:
"I've been in a helicopter crash in a Malayan jungle and in car
wrecks in the flatlands, but never anything like this I believe in
the future I'll confine my politics to more temperate climates."
London British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd on diplomat
ic turncoats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who spied for the
Reds:
"This kind of conduct shows how difficult it is to establish re
lations of mutual trust which the Soviet Union professes so much
to desire."
Radio Moscow in a broadcast making it clear that Russia in
tends to help decide territorial claims and the. national future of
the" Antarctic continent: .
"In spite of the fact that Russian explorers discovered Antarc
tica, the Soviet Union has not participated in discussions of its
territorial status."
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