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Show in His Dreams Tells of Crime "Woman Ho Widowed Recites Nig-ht Scenes Lending Up to Confession Confes-sion of Foul Murder. ROCK RAPIDS, Ia., April 23. Upon the witness stand in tho trial of Charles Rocker, for murder, tho woman ho called his wife has told how the man. dleturbed In his sleep by recollections of the crime, enacted beforo her the manner man-ner of slaying her former husband, August Au-gust Schroedcr, near Doon, Ia., June 30, 1900. "One day last September he fractured the skull of my boy by throwing a wrench at him,- Mrs. Schroeder tostl-llcd. tostl-llcd. "That night he came In at 2 o'clock. He slept uneasily. Suddenly ho sat up and struck mo in the face. His eyes were shut tight. Thon he leaned close to my face and said in a hoarse whisper, 'August, you , now I'vo got you.' "I was terribly frightened and got out of bed and waited until he awoke. Then I asked him why he said that. He told me ho had Itilled my husband, who I had always believed committed suicide. "He told mo that when they went to Doon, in June, 1900, he bought some chloroform and put It and somo morphine mor-phine In whlskj". When he got home August wus taken suddenly sick, Rocker said he strangled him and hung his body In tho barn. "When he told me this he put a revolver re-volver at my head and told me if I ever told he would surely kill me as he did August." Rocker was a hired man on Schroeder's farm, and after Schroeder's death he married the widow and obtained ob-tained Schroeder's property. It was shown that he has a wife living In Minnesota from whom he has not been divorced, thus Invalidating his marriage to Mrs. Schroeder, and in this way allowing al-lowing her to testify against him. |