Show DOWN EN IS REPENTANT retracts his confession saying he made it when drunk TRIBUNE BUNE SPECIAL 3 denver colo dec 5 A local pap paper I 1 Is a authority tor for tho he statement that albert hense downen the confessed and convicted d murderer hid had broken down and retracted everything tic he said re rc garding alq many murders stage robberies and holdups hold ups according to the story the flight after his conviction downen sent for ills his attorney robert 13 foote Io boote ote and told him film that lie desired to live and that all hla big confession to chief of police russell was absolutely false he told his attorney that from the time that he was arrested until the hour he was brought to court to hear tho vol diet ot of the jury jarv he WAR waa under the influence of 0 int that the detectives who alio had watched him had sent whisky to ills his cell every day whisky that had bad more than the usual C effect it a sort of confessional brew a abrev that hal haci forced him to confess whether lie he wanted to or not at the time the jury returned a erdice ot of murder in the first degree decree attorney foote announced he would move for a new trial and when ills ilia motion Is made it will include in an affidavit from this the prisoner that he was waa led to confess by the influence of the liquor conveyed to him in the county jail the arl prisoner oner Is receiving the usual 1 attention I foolish women give such criminals flowers and fruits fire are carried to him dally daily some of them downen receives and others he refuses lie he seems deemi to be greatly interested in a handsome brunette who calls every day with some present and Is never turned away they all refuse to give the warden their names |