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Show MURDER WILL OUT. Ciiicago, 7. The Mason County (Ills.) Jiuuf l publishes a letter received re-ceived in that county from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, addressed to lobt, Covington, , Dr. MeCowcit, and John Walker, all old citi.eiiH, in which the writer confesses con-fesses to having murdend a man near the farms of theso gontlenten, twen- ty-ninu years ago, robbing him of over -,000 in aish, mid his horso; the money ho was taking lo Springfield Spring-field to ( liter land with. Tho murderer mur-derer represonU himself an now old, sick, and near his death, and makes this confession to ease his conscience, ho having been recently converted, and to secure, if possible, a recovery and Christian burial for his victim's remains. He gives tho exact locality where tho body was hastily burnd by him and a paitncr iu guilt, but a lung search by tho entire neighborhood fai'ed to find any traeo of the remains. Th letter is dated April DsUi, anil is signed I). K. N. G., and says the writer writ-er eaine to San Francisco tor medical treatment. |