Show confession A TELEGRAM received this morn ing says Bays that the washington star of last evening contains the tho following sumner howard formerly dis trieb triet attorney of bf utah said sald in a co conversation n while here recently that john D lee leb the e mountain meadows murderer never made a confession he lie and marshal marshai nelson abl tried in valet to obtain from him aa a bonafide bohaJ boha dide fide confession but lee persistently refused to make one ghe the confession published at the time lime of lees execution was composed by himself howard and a newspaper correspondent assisted by lee whose approval it received it was not however by any means a confession howard said that the tho reason lee refused to confess was waa principally because ill lit his s favorite wife rachael who was with him at the time was also red handed in murder of course we cannot vouch for the correctness of the star staf ft statement but we have no doubt of the truth of the main fact related namely that tile the confession was manufactured for outside effect and the personal e emolument m of its con bale aale of thie the precious document t tj eastern journals it will be remembered that there were two or three materially different confessions fess fes lons the chief rival to the howard story being the nie ble bishop ap version when the full details of the lee life i confession and ex execution are laid bare to the tho public they will disclose such official treachery and mercenary infamy as will make lee look comparatively white by the side of his be and confession bongers mongers mon gers |