Show r HT CONfESSED BY NEGRO 5 u Statement Adits Ad- Ad I j knits its Long Series of Heni- Heni ous Crimes AGO WACO Tex Feb 9 A A series of Times r roes mes which ha have ve baffled battled officers iere ire gre for the past year were cleared oday by the alleged confession of Royal oval yal Mitchell negro to having coma com com- I a n eight murders three assaults With Intent to murder and a a. number of Of attacks on women from February 2 2 IB 1922 S. S t to January 19 1923 a according c r g to Sheriff Leslie Stegall and County Attorney C. C S. S Farmer armer The Tho slayings said to have been confessed confessed con con- I to by Mitchell follow Murder of W W. H. H Barker and his wife and Homer Turk at Concord February 12 12 1922 W W. P. P Driskell 1 May 7 q 1922 Harrel Bolton May 25 26 1922 GradY Skip worth November 20 19 1922 W. W r E E. Holt and Mrs Ethel Ether Denecamp Denecamp Denecamp Dene- Dene camp January 19 1923 Three women were assaulted when their escorts were killed two of the women having been subjected to two assaults according to the alleged con con- The confession was made to the sheriff and county prosecutor last night put In writing and signed by Mitchell Two negroes were tried and convicted convicted convicted con con- for tor the slaying of Mr and Mrs Barker and Turk the killing of ot whom Mitchell l confessed confessed One of ot these ne negroes negroes ne ne- groes Cooper Johnson was given the death penalty and the t other ther Bennie Young life lite imprisonment Their cases are now on appeal Another negro has been killed for tor fora torI a crime to which Mitchell Is alleged Ito I to have ha confessed When Harrel Harrel Harrel-Bol- BolI Bol- Bol I ton was killed hi his girl companion was assaulted A 4 negro was waa later l I fled fled- by the young woman and was 1 shot sho by the girls girl's father A mob then burned his body I |