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Show KELLY THOUGHT HE WAS OBEYING 1 iSMS VOICE Substance of Confession Alleged to Have Been Made by Villisca Slayer Is Made Public. SERMON CRACKS THE PREACHER'S MIND Sleep Fails to Come and He Butchers Eight Victims Vic-tims With Ax, According Accord-ing to Story. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Sept. 1. "SJay utterly" was the text which Rev. Lynn G. J. Kelly followed when he slew, according to his alleged confession, con-fession, with an ax Joe Moore, his wife and four children and the two little Stil-linger Stil-linger girls as they lay in their beds in Villisca on the night of June 9, 1912, according to his confession alleged to have been made before a state agent early Friday morning. Information regarding re-garding the confession was given out today to-day by State Agent Rledon and J. J. Hess, an attorney for the state. According to the alleged confession two words had been running through his mind for days. The night of the slaying slay-ing a voice told him to go down the street from the Rev. W. J. Ewing's home, where he was staying, to the Moore house, and to go in after he had picked up the ax in the backyard. Then, according accord-ing to the alleged confession, the text came: "Slay utterly" and following It, "Suffer little children to come unto me." Thereupon Kelly answered, "Yes, Lord, They're coming quick," and began his blood-curdling work. Preached, Two Sermons. Kelly is quoted as saying he went to Villisca on Saturay evening, June 8. On Sunday he filled two pulpits near Villisca, Vil-lisca, returning to Villisca late In the afternoon. He took supper at the home of Rev. W. J. Ewing, pastor of the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church. After supper, Kelly is quoted as saying, he accompanied the Ewing family to church and then re- turned home with them after the ser-I ser-I vices. I The announcement goes on to. say that ' Kelly explained that he was unable to sleep because of cogitations upon the i sermon and his thoughts were constantly ; on the text, "Slay utterly." j In his own mind he was elaborating upon the ideas which he had heard ex-i ex-i pressed by the famous evangelist. Could Not Sleep. Suddenly from out of the night still-1 still-1 ness, Kelly is quoted as saying, he heard a sound like that of a windmill. Restless Rest-less and unable to sleep, Kelly is quoted as saying, he arose and walked about the room, finally going out onto a little balcony. Out in the open, he could hear no noise, he said. He then turned back into his room and went back to bed. But still sleep would not come. Finally he determined to take a walk. This was about 12:45 o'clock, Kelly recalled. Still turning over in his mind the thought of the text, "Slay utterly," Kelly is quoted as saying, he walked over towards the Presbyterian church. In the midst of his pondering he says he heard a voice which bade him "Go farther." He says his path then led him down toward the end of the street on which the Joe Moore home is located. Approaching the Moore house, Kelly is quoted as saying, he saw a shadow. Something prompted him to follow it and he says he saw an ax. He picked it up. Then came a voice which rang in his ears, "Go in, slay utterly." Murders Committed. j He followed the shadow around to the j front of the house where it rested at the front door. He entered the house 1 and went up stairs. Kelly is quoted as saying, as he mounted the stairs, the thought came through his mind that he was ascending on Jacob's ladder. Arriving a I the top of the stairs, Kelly is quoted as saying, he turned into the room where four children were sleeping. sleep-ing. He paused. Then came the voice against which Kelly is quoted as saying was that of God. "Slay utterly," it commanded. com-manded. "Suffer little children to come unto me." Kelly is quoted as saying he answered this with the muttering, "Yes, Lord, they're coming now," or "Yes, Lord, they're coming quick,' 'he was not sure which expression he used. Then while the blood of his listeners almost ran cold, Kelly is said to have told how he grasped the handle of the a:: and proceeded to slaughter. From the children's rooms, Kelly is quoted as suying', lie went into the room where Mr. and Mrs. Moore were sleeping. Here the voice against prompted him, more "work yet. There must be sacrifices sacri-fices of blood," Kelly ts quoted a.s saying say-ing he told God he was working as fast as he could. Prompted by Voice. From the children's rooms Kelly says he went into the roum where M r. and Mix Moore were sleeping. Here the voice asrairi prompted him, "more work yet. There must be sacrifices of blood." Kelly snys he told God he wa working as fast , as he coul 1. "I killer! the parent s." 'Kellv said: "I Uiink 1 killed the mother first.'" I Kellv says he then felt tired and went ! downstairs seaivhim: for a place to lie idown. He w .nil into a room and dis I covered two pirN. "More work stiil. ' Wn s tlie voice that spoke t him thou, "f --till , i.eM tiie imi uise to "slay utterly," " Kelly i drclareed in lulling of the murdering cf the two little giris that be found in this room. I Kelly remained in tlie Monro ho;:?e until I , lust :is day was hre;i k 1112; in t T t e cast. I ,'.e mvs, ;ind ii:en rctm-nd to the Kui'-Li j home and auain jouh! ;:s ho J. He wis (Ccutimicd on Pase Two.) KELLY THOUGHT HE WAS OBEYING LORD i . i (Continued from Page One.) still unable to sleep. Packing bis suitcase, suit-case, lie slipped out of the house and caught the train which leaves VlUisca for the west at 5:19 a. m. and then returned re-turned to Macedonia, where he made his home. After compelting the story of bow he committed this crime, Kelly went on to say that ever since that awful night the text "Slay utterly" had been ever in his mind. It constantly tormented him. "Never let me run loose again; .I'll do the same thing over," be pleaded with the little group that heard him recite his terrible crime. As be finished his tale, Kelly seemed relieved. "My soul is relieved re-lieved for the first time In five years," he remarked. No Coercion Used. DES MOINES, Iowa-, ' Sept. 1. "With the reported repudiation of the alleged confession of the Rev. George J. Kelly, itinerant clergyman, that he committed the VilHsca ax murders of 1912, preparations prepara-tions for his trial in connection with the murders -next Tuesday continued today. Kelly, according to H. M. Havner, attorney at-torney general of Iowa, confessed yesterday yester-day morning to the county . attorney and sheriff of Harrison county in the jail at Dogan, Iowa, where he had been held. Mr. Havner said no coercion was used In obtaining the alleged confession. Counsel for Kelly, on the other hand announced, that the clergyman had repudiated re-pudiated the confession which Judge A. L. Sutton of Omaha, one of Kelly's attorneys, at-torneys, said the ' minister had been "scared Into making." Victims of the ax murders, slain the night of June 9, 1912, in the home of J. B. Moore at VilHsca, were Moore, his wife and their four children and two girls visiting the family. The six children chil-dren were all under 12 years of age.- Mr. Havner announced todaj' that Kelly had also confessed that he caused the fires that destroyed a number of buildings build-ings in Sutton, Neb., in 1915. Signed and Sworn To. The confession signed and sworn to by the Rev. Dynn George J. Kelly, but later repudiated, was entirely voluntary upon his part, and was obtained by the most pacific means, Attorney General H. M. Havner tonight declared in an authorized statement. Mr. Havner told for the first time the exact circumstances surrounding the confession. con-fession. Pie said: I went to Harrison county last Thursday particularly to make a speaking engagement at Magnolia. J took with me a statement of additional addi-tional evidence gathered in the Kelly case, and which, by law, we are required re-quired to serve upon he defendant In advance of the trial. fc This statement of evidence was . read to Mr. Kelly by Sheriff Meyers of Harrison county shortly after 10 o'clock in the- evening. I was not present and had not planned to see Kelly before catching my train to Council Blufts. Kelly Breaks Down. Before the sherjff completed read -ing the statement Kelly stopped him, declaring that he was guilty of the murder, and was ready to make a statement. He told the sheriff that he wanted to see me, and Meyers told him that there was no use talking to me unless un-less he was ready to make a clean breast of the whole affair. Kelly then said that he wished to confess, and Meyers sent word to me not to take my train. Kelly was then brought to the courthouse and, in the presence of a number of witnesses, made a detailed statement of the crime. J. J. Hess, a n attorney from Council Bluffs; Sheriff Movers, J. J. Rlsden and two other persons, both residents of Logan, Lo-gan, whose names I do not know, were present, as well as two court reporters whom we called in. o far as there being any intimlda- t tion is concerned, Kelly was anxious to make the statement, and talked at length upon the crime. . He was informed in-formed by myself and others present that anything he said -would be used against him, and that he need expect no reward In the way of clemency or otherwise. Ho was told this at least twenty times during the night. He began to make bis statement about 12 :3l and finished it about 3:30. Three or four hours after he had returned to the Jail he again called for the sheriff, this being shortly after 7 o'clock Friday morning. I had left the city and was In Council Bluffs. Kelly told the sheriff that be desired to dictate an account of the crime. This he did, in the presence of the sheriff, county attorney and . clerk of the court, making his statement state-ment while it was written down Idi-rectly Idi-rectly upon a typewriter.. This statement he read over, signed and swo;e to. entirely of his own free will, and without the slightest pressure pres-sure being used. |