Jackson-Clinton-Jones County IA Archives News.....Ethel Streets Slain September 14, 1939
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Lost Nation Press September 14, 1939
Lost Nation Press, September 14, 1939 

BLISS CONFESSES SLAYING MRS. STREETS OF CANTON 

Kenneth Bliss, 22, confessed to the slaying of Mrs. Ethel Streets, 59, Canton, 
before Sheriff Ronald Cahill of Jackson County early Monday morning. Bliss 
said he killed Mrs. Streets in an argument over a $4.90 check, which he 
contended was payment for work performed a couple of years ago. 

In his confession, Bliss claimed he went to see Mrs. Streets Saturday noon and 
asked for his money; Mrs. Streets refused, he claimed, and stated she would 
rather kill him than pay him. Then, according to the confession, Mrs. Streets 
reached for something which he thought might be a gun, and he seized her by 
the neck. He strangled her with a rope after carrying her upstairs, he is said 
to have confessed. 

Bliss, who had been staying around Wyoming quite frequently, had worked for 
Mrs. Streets for about two years. He denied having taken her purse and her .45 
caliber revolver. 

After the slaying, he said he went to Onslow to have his car, a Chevrolet 
sedan, repaired. He attended a movie Saturday night, and attended a picnic in 
Hopkinton Sunday morning. He was arrested at Scotch Grove at about 8:00 p.m. 
Sunday by Sheriff Eichhorn of Jones county and Sheriff Cahill of Jackson 
county. They began questioning him about 11:00 p.m. Bliss was cool at first, 
but gradually lost his bravado. 

Mrs. Streets' body was discovered by two neighbors, Earl Bickford and Herman 
Nissen at about 7:00 Sunday morning when those men went to her place to 
investigate a disturbance caused by her unfed cattle. 

Mrs. Streets has lived alone on an acreage at the edge of Canton since a fall 
on ice a year ago left her crippled and prevented her from caring for her farm 
near Monmouth. She had operated the farm for some years, after the death of 
her husband, Elijah Streets. On the acreage in Canton she kept several 
chickens, pigs, horses, and thirty dairy cows, which she milked herself, 
selling the cream. 

She was born Ethel DuBois, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert DuBois, near 
Onslow, January 22, 1880. Mr. Streets died some years ago. They had no 
children. One sister, Mrs. Claud Fayram of Canton, survives. 




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