Show PASTOR ADMITS POISONING W IFE 1 PASTOR MAKES COMPLETE CON OF CRIMES AFTER MUCH questioning places deadly potion in coffee and 11 water water to ease pain of wife and friend sig signs sigis is con mount vernon III rev lawrena M hight pastor at ina ill has con confessed fessel to poisoning his wife and wilford tin in his statement ent to the authorities hight declared the murder of his wife was prompted to relieve her of her sufferings according to his statement he placed the poison in her coffee on the morning of september 10 hight was questioned until 4 monday morning before the state ment on the death of his wife was obtained A few minutes later according to the authorities he confessed also to causing the death of ile he asserted he be was temporarily out of his mind at the time rev hight said he had put poison in Swee sweeting tins ns water to put him out of pain this was on the morning of sunday judy 27 at the home where lay ill hight declared in hi his a confession that there hail had levei never been anything between himself and mrs and absolved her of any complicity in the double crime the text of the two confessions follow 1 I lawrence 31 1119 hight ht of my own free will voluntarily without threat I 1 or promises and having been fully informed of my rights that what I 1 say ma may y be used against me make the following statement that while temporarily beside myself with grief at my wife anna hights condition who was suffering intensely and was surely to lie die and wishing to save her pain I 1 put arsenic in some coffee and gave it to her in the early morning of wednesday s september 10 1924 while mrs lucy laur my iny daughters mary alary and mildred hight were vere in the kitchen in my home atina at ina ill jefferson edun county ill and my son robert hight was in bed at home I 1 that my sole thought was to ease case the pain in her lying dying moments signed L M hight 11 the second confession follows 1 11 I 1 lawrence H hight of my own free will voluntarily without threat or 0 r promises an and d having been fully informed of my right that what I 1 say may be used against me make the following sta statement lement that on sunday morning july 27 1924 at the honie home of wilford at jefferson county ill I 1 placed some arsenic in a elass of water and gave it to wilford who drank it I 1 did this to ease his plain elsie knew nothing of this and there was never anything between her and myself in anyway signed lawrence al hight sheriff holcomb and states attorney thompson are arc now awaiting he result of an investigation in white county of the circumstances under which a high school girl died in en centerville Cent erville three years ago |