Gotcha! The Slasher -Smasher is Apprehended

On the evening of December 16, 1934, Eugene Booher was picked up by Chief Karl Weaner and Brad W. Chaffin, wandering coatless on Fifth Street.  He had run away from the home where he lived as a foster child.  He came originally from an orphanage in Detroit.  It wasn't the first time that Eugene had been questioned about the events of summer 1934, but this time, he decided to confess to it all.

 The Crescent-News of December 18, 1934, headlined the capture and confession.

"Last summer's terrorist who stabbed four women, clubbed two others and shot another, today was merely a conscience-stricken 16 year old orphan boy who is glad he made a clean breast of it all.

Weeping one moment and emotionless the next, Eugene Booher, 1102 Perry street, smiles when he thinks it is all over and sheds tears when he wonders 'what will Mom think when she reads it in the paper.'

 He was sent to Columbus for a mental evaluation and then to the state hospital in Lima. While there, he and Herman Groty, 65, a trustee, escaped.  Groty's brother, who worked in the dining room, procured milkman uniforms for the two and they walked out right past the guards.

They were eventually captured about Christmas time near Beavercreek, Ohio.  Booher had frosted feet and was very hungry when found and returned.
His future beyond that is unknown to this writer.