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Show CONFESS HORRIBLE CRIME. Train Wrecker Intended to Murder Pasaenger Who Eacaped Death In Wreck. A detectlvo lant Tuoaday arrested James W. Ilnlley and John W. Kennedy Ken-nedy nenr Shenandoah. Pa., charged with wrecking a Norfolk Western passenger tuiln near tlroenvllle on the nliihl of December 2H Inst, when Knglneer Wesley Ilnlley wan klllel. The men plendod guilty Inter and were sent to Staunton Jail without bond, chnrged with murder. In a sworn confession they said they p mined with Mrs. Kllen Puynter to wreck tho Irnln and kill any passengers passen-gers who might escape death In Ihe wreck. Only tho enirlneor wan killed and the plan of wholesale murder was abandoned. Mrs. Paynter, who cornea from North Carolina, will bo arrente.l. |