Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 2 | Murdered Five People

1 t MURDERED FIVE PEOPLE It i LIIeeI Confession ot n Negro on p His Death Bed t Halsey Ky Feb 23The statement of p > a negro who died here yesterday has created r cre-ated Quite a sensation in this little place The ne ro was seen by the Louisville livening Posts reporter Just before he passed away and ho confessed to having committed five murders Two of them t were in Alabama two in Tennessee and r one in Georgia He said that three of his victims were white women Ho also 1 said that one man had boen tried convicted con-victed and hung for one of his fiendish J acts The man was not guilty and was rt convicted on purely circumstantial evidence I evi-dence He would not tell the exact towns iF or localities where he had committed I these crimes