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Show .V M.UHO AMI 111 AK. H Whittle loth Wife I'araniutir With Hi I.Utl liMlih.l. Dallas. 'IV.. June Karly yesterday yester-day morning Frank (Juinii. a ' negro, appeared at the police hcadiiuartcrs with a Moody a iu his hand. He said: '1 have killed my wife and a man whom I found iu' the room with her just awhile ago, w ilh thi.sa.M Ho whs locked up. A reporter had a talk with him through tho bars. Ho I said: "1 work and sleep on (he trunk railroad. I have beeu iu Pallas three week. I eamo from Matthews' Mill, near Texarkann. M- wife left there before I did. When I came to Dallas I found out .-.lie w as in Fort Worth. I went over there aud Rot her to eomo baek with me. She said she would live nil right after this. We had lie home. While 1 .slept out near the Trunk railroad, rail-road, she has slept in an alley in the city until a few nights ago, when I have seen her with the negro I killed tonight. to-night. 1 did the killing up nt Frogtown. 1 don't know who lives at the house. I have been laying around the house ever since dark, and have watehed my wife and this negro. I slipped into the room i with the ax, and hit the man first ami j then my wife. 1 said: 'Frank's got j you now.' I (hen got out and eame down here. 'I.iia Simmons and her ! husband slept in the next room to where j I did the killing, but thevonly have the j room rented." By the lime Frank Quiun had eom-pleled eom-pleled this statement a woman, eovered with bloody garments, entered the patrol station. She said: "I am Frank (jiiinn's wife. was in the room with 'Lia Simmons and her husband. Frank eame in and hit mo w ith something ami then w ent iu and hit the man. I think he killed him. The luau was named Hen Nelson. He was (deeping iu tin. kilelien." tjiiinn's wife had a horriblo gash iu her right arm, made by the j ax, and some biirises about her person. |