Show CHURCH AND WiFE WERE CRUELLY MURDERED Mystery r Surrounding Disap p f1n e Cleared Up CLIFTQN HAS CONFESSED Wyoming Rancher Admits Having Hav-ing Killed Couple Tells Authorities Where Be Buried Their Uodies He Was a Neighbor Neigh-bor of Churcnes 0 Newcastle Wyo April lJThe mystery mys-tery surrounding the disappearance aevern1 weeks ago of J W Church and his wife formerly of Omaha Neb but more recently engaged in ranching near here has been cleared up by the confession con-fession of Slim Clifton who has been under arrest on suspicion of having murdered the couple Clifton admits that he killed them and has told the authorities where the bodies were burledhy him When confronted con-fronted with evidence recently unearthed un-earthed by Lew Jenney of Gillette Clifton Clif-ton broke down and confessed his crime Clifton Is a rancher and lived II near the Churches HAULED BODIES AWAY Clifton said that after murdering the Churches and hiding their bodies in a granary on the Church ranch temporarily tempo-rarily he hauled them two miles away and burled them Before doing so he stripped the bodies of Jewelry which he afterward had made over into a ring for himself Ho then drew up bills oC sale In Churchs name and disposed of the slock and some of the household goods all the while making his abode on the Church ranch CLAIMS SELFDEFENSE Clifton claims that he killed the coupe cou-pe in selfdefense shooting the woman wo-man first It had been reported that the Churches and Clifton had had trouble trou-ble over advances made to Mrs Church by Clifton Feeling Is high in the neighborhood of the crime which is southwest of Gillette about twenty miles and It is feared that an attempt will be made to lynch Clifton |