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Show Tom Williamson Confesses to Three Murders Committed by Him. A SELr-CONrESSED BRUTE. A St. Joseph Man Assaults His Wife Tour Men Who Will Stretch Hemp. Skdalia. Mo., .lune'.i. t uelo Tom" Williamson, of Salvation Army fame, nnd several times a murderer, today made the following confession to Sheriff F.llis R. Smith, which w as duly signed, nud will be used as evidence against the prisoner: "Chns. Moore and I w ere clearing up ground, ami had been fussing for two weeks. He .struck at mo with an ax-handle. ax-handle. struck at him with an ax and missed him. He (hen sturted to run ami I struck at him again. 1 knocked knock-ed him down, and si nick him again on the back of the head with the nx. That stroke killed him. 1 then let him lay. anil dug a hold by his side nud buried him. That was where they found him one week later. Old man Moore and 1 had a fus. He threw a chunk of wood at me and hit me ou the head. I threw u Hat iron at him and missed him. I then went out and got an ax, and struck him ou the side of the head with it. He turued over and 1 struck him again on the forehead fore-head and killed him. 1 then drug him out to the cellar and threw him hi the cellar and covered him with dirt the next morning. I staid there thaltiiglit nt the house ami slept there by myself. This all oceiirrct I at Si oore's house. My wile was subject to ri'anip colic. She whs taken with it and was sick two hours, f gave her some vinegar, salts nud camphor, but it did her no good, aud she died. I buried her w here she was found The reason 1 did this was because J w as loo pour to buy a eotlin for her. There was no ono but myself at, the house while she was sick or when 1 burled her." Deputy Sheriff Harnett today received re-ceived a letter from a justice of the ll .li.. in : l.:..l. l:l V til. lll'I'lHIilll-, 111., Ill llll II II II" iamsoii Is accused of having noisouod a woman named Mrs. Abe Shivler In that slate In 1H7H. The accused does uot deny his guilt. This nn.kes five murders at his hands that have been unearthed in the past two weeks. It has just come to light that Willlam-sou Willlam-sou is an old jail bird. In ISUMI ho was was working for Charles Koch, on a farm near i'coriu. 111. Koch was found dead one day in August of that year. Williamson was arrested for the crime, tried nnd sentenced to be hanged. Gov. Oglesby commuted his sentence to twenty years In tho penitentiary, lie served seventeen years, and upon his release relieved to Missouri. |