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Show CONFESSES MURDER Mystery Regarding Killing of Neil McCoig in Kansas City Cleared. SLAYER WAS A COOK WHO WORKED FOR VICTIM When First Arrested Murderer Implicated Others, Telling Detailed Story. KANSAS CITY. Jan. V,. After making1 mak-ing1 a detailed false confession causing one innocent, man (o be arrcsled on the charge of murder, and a man and woman wo-man to ne held for investigation. Ward Mower of FalJs City, Neb., confessed to tlio polico of Kansas City, Kan., ionipht. tli.it lie alono murdered NeiJ McCoifC, also of Falls t'ity, on December 27. McCoig's body, covered with euls and bruises and bearinc one buUel wound, was found in tlio outskirts of Kantas Oily, Kan. lUcCoic was for-inerely for-inerely a restaurant keeper of Falls City 'and Mower, who was cook, had worked for him. Mower confessed tonight that lie had boa ton Metnic with a piece of railroad iron and an iron hook until he waj. insensible. in-sensible. Death being- too slow, Mower said he shot the man. Fear thai, he would bo proven the purloiner of notes he had Molen from MeCoic was his Tcason for killinc the man, Mower says. Met 'oie accused Mower of takinc'lhe papers. All I hose who were taken iuto ens-tod ens-tod v as a result of Mower's original confession wore released tonichl. |