Show PORTER HAS CONFESSED Negro Boy Admits Killing I Little Louise Frost I DETAILS THE AWFUL CRIME j Waylaid and Assaulted the Child as She Was Returning from School t Slashed Her Fourteen Times With f a Penknife Then to Prevent Her j Betraying Him He Crushed Her L Skull With His He2l It is Believed J Ho Will be Burned When Taken to j L Scene of Crime I M Denver Colo Nov 14After wlth 4j Glundlng the pressure of the sweatbox sweat-box at the city jail for four days John Porter the alxtccnycarold negro E who was arrested Sunday charged with tho murder of little elevenyearold L Louise Frost near Union Colo tonight iroke down and confessed every detail c pf the crime The little girl was the daughter of I ranchman living four miles from LImon LI-mon attended school In town driving l back and forth On Thursday last while on her way home she was waylaId way-laid assaulted and murdered her body showing no less than fourteen knife wounds On Sunday Preston l Porter colored and his two sons Vrlhur and John who liud been working on the railroad near Limon were arrested here en route to their home In Lawrence Kim and John Porter was charged witl the clime Only circumstantial cldcncc v Was brought against him and he told a otralght hlory adhering to it no le I jnicloualy aa to almost convince tho officers of-ficers of lila Innocence Tonight however i11 how-ever he weakened The police department sent two men to Limon today to verify some of his htntemonis They wished to be absolutely abso-lutely sure of his guilt before giving him up owing to a strong belief that h Llmop he will be lynched on his arrival at 7t CONFESSED TO CHIEF FARLEY Porters confession was made to Chief of Police Fancy and Chief of Detectives s Armstrong The fact that the clothes which he hail shipped to Lawrence Kau nnd which had been brought back to Denver showed blood stains scored to unnerve him and he broke down 1r lie told the story of his crime In detail q1 und has since been on his knees In his cell I c31 Porter said he had been the girl drlv I Jipr home from nchool and on the duo j du-o the crime waited for her at a lonely I point 1 on the toad Jde dragged her from thy buggy nl when she fought him he repeatedly I stubbed her with a c1 Mnail penknife She finally yielded and i1j sift ward tn pi event her betraying him lu rushed her skull with his heel 1 lip ivtuniccl 10 the boJirdlngcor and a attempted by w shin aomu of lila I olutlns and bunUng others to remove flo the evidence l of his crime Later in I the wook the Porlers qut work and shipped their effects to Lawrence Kan their home They came to Denver to I draw their pay anti on Sunday last AHTC rm M d by the police on a telc f Kraphlc order from Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln county f Tho greatest excitement was caused by the discovery of the body of the murdered girl and rewards to the amount of S2200 were offered for the ij lpture of the murderer dead or alive I was annourced on all sides that the murderer should be lynched 1 If cap FJ tascd and one man who was suspected had a narrow escape from death ii After suspicion became fastened upon young Porter n pair oC shoes which he had left at the car were found to fit the tracks which led from the scene of the crime There was other circumstantial crcum stantial evidence against him but Porter Por-ter firmly held to his story that he was at the boar Incar all the afternoon of the day of tho murder This afternoon the baggage of tho Porters was received I from Lawrence antI I pair of overalls I i I and a shirt which showed stains of j blood were found When confronted with this evidence the boy lost his I I nerve and told the story I WILL BE BURNED I is not known when he will be taken I to Lincoln county but Sheriff Freeman is said to have expressed the belief that I he will never be able to land him in Jail in Hugo the county seal Under these circumstances the police declare that they wil 1 not gle up the prisoner except upon a legal demand that will relieve the mof any responslblllly for a lynching l lynch-ing I is rumored that the negro will be burned when taken to Limon SUSPECTF ATHER AND BROTHER Al1 oclock this Thursday morning a telegram from Limon says the statements state-ments of Porter have been corroborated I He had told where he had thrown his victims pocketbook and It was found there by the olllcers People are gathering gath-ering at Limon from the surrounding country awaiting the arrival of the murderer I lE now said that there Is evidence that the father and brothel of John Porter had a guilty knowledge of hIs crime and it Is possible thai if they aro taken to Lincoln county at fho same time they may suffer the same penalty I I |