Kills Mother To Gain $16 Relief BROWNSTOWN. Ind.. Dec. 3 (UP) State police detective Ray- : mond Boll said today that Mera (Mora?) McCoy, 23, of LaFollette, Tenn. had confessed orally to him the slaying of her mother, Mrs. Nanny Adams last March because she thought she would inherit her mothers $16 welfare checks. The sheriff of Campbell county, Tenn., en route here, was expected to arrive today to remove the girl to LaFollette to face murder charges. Boll said the girl told him that she and a companion, Jack Walls, 27, of Campbell county, had murdered her mother by putting lye in her coffee. She said at the time a doctor pronounced Mrs. Adams dead of pneumonia. The girl was arrested last Saturday in a roadside inn near Seymour when the proprietor reported to police that she had been telling the story of the killing while intoxicated in the establishment. She was confined to the Seymour jail and then moved to the county jail here. Boll said she reiterated her story to him when sober, claiming she wanted to "get it off her mind", and waived extradition to Tennessee. The girl had been visiting an aunt near Jonesville in this area under the name of Maggie Adams. She said McCoy was the name of her father and the deceased first husband of her mother. Mrs. Adams second husband is also dead. Boll said the girl's oral confession revealed that she and Walls planned the slaying in the hope that she, as the oldest child, would get the welfare checks. Meanwhile Boll said authorities were looking for Walls but believed he was in Tennessee. He said the girl accused Walls of other murders in Tennessee by a system of getting his victims drunk, slugging them and placing their bodies on railroad tracks. A checkup with Tennessee authorities revealed that Walls had murdered Frank Romines in Campbell county in 1933. Bolls said Walls was convicted of the crime and given a ten-year sentence in 1938, of which he served 18 months. Another murder charged by the girl, Boll said, was that of Jack Hatmaker, also in Campbell county, Nov. 14 for a reported payoff of five gallons of whiskey. Boll said a checkup showed that Hatmaker's body had been found on a railroad track. Source: Vidette Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana December 3, 1940