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Show ' ' VJ V7 1 I . . . s l O v ..1 V1 ) ... I t V - ' - '-- ' -s; . i i i-.i i. - . x ' ; ; ' 1:: D::t!i ; cf Eljiit Clli'er Persons; Gave Capsules cf Stryclinlnc. KALKASIA, Mich., June 11. Prosecutor Prose-cutor Smith announced that Mrs. Mary McKnlght. who has been under, arrest here for several days, has confessed to the poisoning f her brother, John Murphy, Mur-phy, his wife and baby. A partial confession was made -Monday evening, in which Mrs. McKnlght denied killing the baby. .Tuesday right Prosecutor Bmlth again called at. the woman's cell at her request, and this time she made a complete confession. In her first statement she admitted giving Mr. and Mrs, Murphy capsules of strychnine and" quinine mixed. She said: "I did not intend to harm any of i them. I did give the baby the strych-h strych-h nine. It woke up and cried while its I mother was gone, and I mixed up a J little strychnine in a glass with some j water and gave a spoonful to the baby. I I did not mean to harm the little thing 1 at alL I confessed all to the Lerd this afternoon, and I feel that he has forgiven for-given me. Hotter Second Victim, . . ' "When Gertrude came home and found the baby dead she got awfully nervous. She came to me and said: 'Mary, can't you give me something to quiet me; something that you take yourself." your-self." J said ! would and I really did not think it would hurt if I gave her one of the capsules. She had spasms right after that and I supposed that the strychnine killed her. "Then John seemed to feel so badly about it that I often thought that after I Gertie died it would be better if he were I to go, too. John was' feeling bad one night a couple of weeks after Gertie died. He wanted something to quiet him. I had two or three of the capsules on my dresser and I told, him to get one of them. I thought that It would soothe htra and then I thought it would be for the best if he were to go away. He helped himself. Then he went to .bed and by and by called me. Mother came, too, and he began to have the same spasms." The whole of the confession was given voluntarily and Mrs. McKnlght signed it after Prosecutor Smith had written It. Hay Be Other. Eight other persons besides the three to whose murder Mrs. McKnlght confessed con-fessed today, investigation shows, have died in the past fifteen years under circumstances cir-cumstances that, in connection with the woman's confession, are now thought to be very suspicious. All are said to have shown symptoms that are now believed be-lieved to indicate strychnine poisoning. The persons are: Ernest McKnlght, the woman's husband; James Ambrose, Jher first husband, who died at Elmira -in . 1888; Mrs. McKnlght. the wife of . James E. McKnlght. who wss the partner part-ner of Ambrose; Baby Teeple, Mrs. Mc-Knight's Mc-Knight's niece; Eliza Chaker, another niece; Sarah Murphy. Mrs. McKnight's sister,' who died at Grayling in February. Febru-ary. 18S3; a Mrs. Curry, who died in Saginaw, in 1S93, while Mhs. McKnlght was at her mother's bouse, and Dorothy Jensen, a child who died in Grayling while under Mrs. McKnight's care during dur-ing the absence of her mother. There was no suspicion against Mrs. McKnlght in connection with the Mur-phys Mur-phys until she filed a mortgage on their property after death. An investigation was' then begun. The body of John Murphy was exhumed and strychnine found in the stomach. Mrs. McKnlght was put under arrest, with the result that she confessed. |