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Show WIFE kElES at?? : . :;jM: OF A:i;iOB; .i;iEI)KAL. ' y EXPESTS HI. . ' SE SAME, BUT DEGENERATE IIAMILTON', O., Feb. 28. It is cur. rently reported about the jail today, that Knapp is considering another confession con-fession that Mill cover other crimes. Meantime, while the offlcers are seeking seek-ing all the Information possible from him. It has .been 'decided that his first trial will be here for the murder of his third wife, Hannah Goddard, unless the trial Judge holds that a corpus de lictl has not" been established by the confession confes-sion of Knapp and other evidence that the officers have in their possession. Prosecutor Gard and other attorneys now hold that it Is absolute! r to find the body of Mrs. H&r.r dard Knapp in order to try the : here, and accordingly search i r ; body was continued today. laary Knapp will have at least a la. hearing before he is turned over t authorities at Cincinnati or.InC: lis. The affidavit and other docu. as well as the confession, are It r ness for a hearing and if the t- i not found soon the prosecution v.' ceed without it. Meantime Knapp is being que ;.: more closely by officers on his j ' record, although he is no lor. re r lag open house with reporters, i and others, to whom he has been talking talk-ing so freely and It is believed that he is on the verge of te'llng of other crimes. Among those who have been with him today were medical experts, who pronounced pro-nounced him sanebut abnormally degenerate. de-generate. Knapp himself is perfectly Indifferent whether he is tried in Hamilton, Ham-ilton, Cincinnati or Indianapolis. . He seems to have no dread of a trial, but is very apprehensive of lynching or some form of violence, and those who watch r ' . say that he Is really cowardly. The l noise that Is not an ordinary Jail i.ois startles him. He has been assured as-sured time and again that he is not to V be lynched, that there Is no danger whatever, and that he will be protected until the law can take its course. Though the taking of life with him was a mere pastime he himself is afraid to die. He wants to live, even though he is behind prison bars. In the hope of saving his life, his family say he is In. sane, and Insanity will be his plea for his life. ' The prisoner is a talker ln his sleep, but his words are not plain. He mutters mut-ters all the time, and the opinion is that he Is going over and over the scene of his awful crimes. In order to give him mental rest, no one will be permitted to see him for several days. |