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Show -15.73::.: o TV'-- .f t , T f- ' L;'Li:rri::r.:rIai:ichi- i a. CHARLOTTE, ITidi, March 23. ila Corapton, TO years old, was arrested ar-rested at Athens, Pa., yesberday, according ac-cording tJ dlspatcLea from that city, . rharjed with tha murder of William Lampman of Grand Lodge, Jlicl?., November No-vember 14, 1892. ' The warrant is based on an affidavit made by John Batcher, who has aerred fourteea years , on a lifs sentence at the Jackson prison ' for the -crime. Butcher says he has kept silent all these years to protect his brothers, Frank and John,- farmers, who, he claims, rr ia the plot with Compton to' rob the old man, who was rich and regarded as miserly, lie insists Compton Comp-ton was the slayer. ' On the day of his arrest John Butcher Butch-er made a confession, in which he said be did the kiliir alone. Afterward he denied the admission. Lampman lived at the ede of town, was 1A years old and a pensioner. His skull was battered in and a pair of overalls were used to choke him to death. " |