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Show REPUDIATES CONFE8SION. Declares Detectives Persuaded Him to Say That He Dynamited Train. Dutto, Mont. Mrs. Mnrgharlta For- rnrl, mother of Louis Ferris, on Wed nesday tostlflcd In tho Forrls dynn-'. dynn-'. mltlng caso that sho had heard Ar- I chlo naynolds, tho detcctlvo, offer her son "a flno position" If ho would con-. con-. foss tho Burlington outrago. A sister to Ferris sworo to tho snmo lntorvlow Wednesday. Doth women snld that Ferris, who Is weak-minded, was told I Hint If ho confessed tho detectives would clear him and get him n Job ' driving a wagon. Forrls himself took tho stand In tho afternoon. Ho denied absolutely any 1 knowlcdgo of tho wreck, nnd declared that ho had confessed only becauso tho railway detectives told him ho would bo acquitted and glvou a flno position; that thoy had to arrest tomcbody, and that ho would bo the. gainer by tho dccolt. Ferris thus corroborated cor-roborated his mother and sister. |