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Show STARTLING CONFJESSIOX. With Death Staring Him in (he Face a Desperado Des-perado Telle Ills Story. Sedalia, Mo., July 14. J. A. Turlington, Turl-ington, alias West, under sentence of death at Rooneville, for the killing of Sheriff Cramer, of Cooper county, has confessed that he was implicated "in the Missouri, Kansas and Texas robbery at Prior Creek, when $1500 was secured, and that he also helped to rob the Wells-Fargo Express of $10,000 a few days later. One of the accomplices was W. E. Smith, who served two months in the Sedalia jail. They alone robbed the Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas and fexes train, but had accomplices accompli-ces in the othef. To show that he was telling the truth, Turlington gave incidents in-cidents and dates which corroborated his statement in every particular. After taking down all the prisoner had said Sheriff Smith, of Cooper -county, and John J. Kinney. Chief of the Missouri, Mis-souri, Kansas and Texas Detective force, returned to Sedalia yesterday, but would say nothing regarding the confession. |