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Show BURNED WIFE AND BABE IN A BED Startling Confession of Rum-Crazed Man in a Colorado Jail. ' TENVER, April O.-Azel D. -f Galbralth, formerly manager -f 4- of tho Topcka mine In Russell -4- 4- gulch, Gilpin county, In jail here 4- on tho charge of misappropriating -f 4- the company's funds, (his after- -9- 4- noon confessed to having murdered 4- his wife and llttlo eon in his cabin 4- 4- In Russell gulch on March 0th. 4- A dispatch from Central City 4- 4- says tho cabin has been outercd 4- 4- and tho two bodies found on tho 4- 4- bed with the bed clothing spread 4- Over thorn, giving tho bed tho ap- 4- 4- pearanco of being freshly made up. 4- 4- Both had been shot In the head. 4- 4- On April 1st Galbralth went to 4- 4- the cabin with Ernest Williams, 4- 4- engineer of tho Brown Palace, to 4- 4- whom ho owed money, and gavo 4- 4- tho latter enough of his household 4- 4- furniture to llquldato tho debt. 4- 4- Williams stated tonight that on tho 4- occasion of his visit thero was no 4- 4- indication of the murder. 4- 4- Before his arrest Galbralth wrote- 4- 4- several letters confessing his short- 4- 4- age to tho Topeka company and at- 4- 4- tributlng his downfall to drink. -f |