Admits slayings, police say

Associated Press · August 22, 1949

Franklin Click, (above), 30-year-old farm hand, clasps a Bible while resting on cell cot in Allen County jail here today. Police Chief Lester M. Isenhut said Click signed a statement admitting the sex slayings of three Ft. Wayne women. Ralph Lobaugh, former Kokomo, Ind., factory worker awaiting execution for two of the three slayings admitted by Click, has been granted a 90-day reprieve by Indiana [...]