Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-29 | Page 12 | Israel Recants His Murder Confession

ISRAEL RECAPiTS HIS MURDERCOJFESSIOI Now Declares Story Was Result Re-sult of Delirium Produced by Liquor. Steve Iaraol, the man -who gave himself him-self up to tho polico Tuesday night aa the murdoror of a Jewish morchant of North Topcka. Kan., yesterday mprnine soberly dcclarod himself innocent of the crimo. Israel nttributed bis frenzied fren-zied confession of tho niht beforo to his intoxication. A Btatemont made by him to the offset of-fset that upon tho date of the murdor, February 22, mi, ho waa in jail in Topoka was verified bj a telopram from the police of Topoka to Chief Grant yoatorday. Israel is still be-lnr be-lnr hold pending tho arrival of more completo information, from the .polico of Topeka. A nijjht lottor of explanation explana-tion was promised in tho diHpatch, but had not arrived at nn early hour this morning. Israol declares that he read the story of the murder of Boniamin F Piatt, tho .lew, whilo in jail in Topeka and thinks that his mind must have ro-vorted ro-vorted to it in a fit of drunken delirium. delir-ium. An explanation advanced, according accord-ing to tho associntcd press, by the police po-lice of Topoka that Israel was faking to obtain transportation homo is not credited by the officers hero who heard Israel deare himaclf the murderor, "Whnthor he is guilty or not, he thought ho was l.'iflt night, I am sure," said Dosk Sergeant Lonzi yesterday.