Bonne Terre Register, Bonne Terre, MO, Friday, June 23, 1916. BOYS RELATE DETAILS OF FOREIGNER'S DEATH. Followed the Russian a Mile and Then Club Him to Death and Rob Him. At a preliminary hearing of Frank Hill and John Whitt at Flat River Monday morning charged with the murder of Bumistow Branowich, a Russian who was found dead on Tuesday morning of last week near the Federal Lead Company's offices, the young men practically admitted to having committed the crime. That is they told the same story as to how the foreigner came to his death but each told that the other fellow struck the lick that caused the death. The story they tell is that during the afternoon one said to the other "Let's get a Hunkie tonight" to which the other agreed. After supper the boys went up town and were in the small restaurant at the upper end of Main Street when the 9 o'clock train came in. This foreigner got off the train and passed the restaurant when one said "There is a Hunkie let's get him." They followed him and as they passed a blacksmith shop Hill picked up a piece of buggy shaft that had an iron on the end of it. Whitt found a piece of iron. They followed the man keeping about two hundred yards in the rear until he turned over Federal Hill and here they caught up with him and Whitt says Hill struck Branowich with the stick. Hill says Whitt struck the man with the iron. The general opinion of those who know the boys is that Hill is the one that killed the man, however both are thought to be equally guilty. Whitt was suspected and arrested and told the officers that he had seen Hill kill the foreigner. Hill fled the county but got no further than Barnhart in Jefferson County where he felt so good over the affair that he was bragging about it. The officers were notified and he was brought back. Robbery was the motive for the murder but they got no money. All they found was a bottle of whiskey which they took with them and drank. Hill who is about 22 years old is said to be a degenerate and so brutal that he acts at times like a crazy man. While discussing the killing he laughed and joked about it. It is not the first time he has been in trouble. Not long ago he was arrested and put in jail for fighting foreigners. He would walk along the street until he came to a foreigner and then knock him down and go on to find another. He kept this up till he had attacked more than a dozen in one day. Hill and Whitt are cousins. Whitt claims to be about 17 years old. ===================== In the same issue: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. On Wednesday morning three pleas of guilty were entered in the Circuit Court before Judge Huck and at 1:30 that afternoon a Deputy Sheriff bought three one-way tickets for transportation to the State Prison at Jefferson City. Frank Hill and John Whitt plead guilty to having assaulted, robbed and beaten to death a foreigner on Federal Hill last week. Hill was captured by the authorities at Kimswick where he was taken in custody of Deputy Sheriff Brown. Their preliminary hearing was held before Justice Ramsey at Flat River Tuesday. Each was given a life sentence. Charles Babel [Bable ?] of Flat River plead guilty to having forged the name of G. Harris to a check for ten dollars drawn on the Bank of Flat River and which he cashed at the Citizens Bank of Desloge. His sentence was two years in the penitentiary.