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Show can to commit the crime. He said Hint bis wile was kncfl-in kncfl-in on the floor prayin;: when she was killed. Jnnssen said that after the bodv was illiced in 1 1 it? trunk and while ho was tieinK it up with rope, lie pnid the Mexican, dismissed him. placed the trunk on the hack porch and went to bed. The next mornim; it was shipped to n point I in California. ver's murder trunk mystery was solved lute last nicht, when 1 red Jnnssen, suspected of ninrdorins his wife and placin? her body in a trunk, which was later opened at Ondon, Utah, where its grewsome contents were discovered, confessed to police. .lunsson was arrested at Tueblo yesterday. . laussen's confession was simple, lie said that he had met a Mexican and offered him S130 to do the actual act-ual killinir: that the man accepted and was taken to his home where plans were laid for his wife s den h. .lanssen said he went for a walk, leaving the Mexican in the house. When he returned he went to a room adioinins that of his wifes where he had an empty trunk in readiness and awaited fo rthe Mexi- TRUNK MURDER IS CLEARED UP Husband of Dead Woman, Arrested Ar-rested in Pueblo, Confesses to Crime. ' DENVER, Col. March, IS. Pen- |