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Show ASYLUM INMATE CONFESSES MURDERS ST. PETER, Minn., Feb. :. Ralph L. Crosby, committed 10 the state asylum here January 29, Trom Yellow Medicine county, confessed to authorities there today to-day the murder of John Bell and his wife in Red Oak, Iowa, in August, 1UN. In resnonse to a telegram from Sheriff R. A. Dunn of Montgomery county, Iowa, the officials here are holding Crosby. Mr. and Mrs. John Bell were shot and killed as they slept in their. farm home about four miles north uf here. Hoy Clark, a farm hand, was arrested for the crime and confessed, the authorities said at the time. Clark was being held in the county jail here for trial when he made his escape. |