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Show CHARGES IT TO fflSWIFE Ulan on Trial for Murder Now Claims He Confessed Con-fessed to Save Her. , WELLINGTON, Kan., Feb. 14. In the trial of $ohn Cummins for the murder of Anna Dlshman, a thirteen-year-old I servant girl, the defense sprang a sur-prise sur-prise by stating that it would be proven that the murder was committed by the defendant's wife. It would be shown, the counsel for the defense asserted in his statement to the Jury, that Mrs. Cummins held an irresistible influence over her husband, and that she had forced him to make a written confession confes-sion of the crime to save her. Cummins in his confession said that he struck the girl on the heSd and then locked her In an outhouse, where she was left without attention until she died. . - . . . |