Show PUS PASTOR o ADMITS 15 POISONING WIFE E PASTOR ASTOR MAKES AK S. S COMPLETE CON OP CRIMES AFTER MUCH QUESTIONING Pla PIa Places ee ea Deadly Potion In Coffee and Wat Water r t to Ease Ea Pain ef 1 Wife and Friend Sign Confession Con Con- felon Mount Vernon lI IlL Rev Rv Lawrent Lawrens M M. Hight flight pastor at Ina Ina Ill III has hase e confessed to p poisoning his hia w wife fe and I In hi his statement to the authorities Hight declared the murder of his wife was prompted to relieve her of her sufferings According to his statement he placed placed placed ed the poison in her coffee on ca the morning of September 10 Hight flight was questioned until 4 o'clock Monday morning before the statement statement state state- ment on the death of his wife was obtained A few minutes later according according ac ac- ac cording to the authorities he be confessed confess confess- ed also to causing the death of He lIe asserted he ha was temporarily out of his hi mind at the time Rev Hight said he h had d put poison in water to put him out of pain This was on the tho morning of Sunday July 27 at atthe the h home me where lay ill Hight light declared in his confession that there had never been anything between himself and Swe tin and absolved her of any complicity In in the d double ble crime e. e The text of the two confessions follow I II I Lawrence M. M Hight flight of my own tree free will voluntarily without ut threat or or promises and having been fully Informed In In- formed of my rights that what I say may be used against me make the following statement t That while temporarily beside myself myself my my- self with grief at my wife Anna Rights flights condition who wis was suffering Intensely and was surely to die and wishing to save her p pain in I put arsenic arsenic ar up- in some coffee and gave it to her in the early morning of Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day September 10 1924 1024 while Mrs Lucy Laur my daughters Mary and andi i Mildred light Hight were in the kitchen in my home at Ina ma Ina Ill Jefferson county county coun coun- ty Ill and my son Robert Hight wa waln ln bed W W That m my sole thought was to ease the pain in her dying moments Signed L M M M. light Hight The second confession follows I Lawrence H. H Hight of my own tree free will voluntarily without threat or promises having been fully in formed Conned of my right that what I say aay may be used against me make the following statement that on Sunday morning July 27 1924 at the home of Wilford at Jefferson coun ty Ill I placed some arsenic In a aplass glass flass of water and gave it to Wilford who drank it I did this to ease his plain Elsie knew nothing of this and there was anything between her and myself in anyway Signed Lawrence M M. M Hight Sheriff Holcomb and States State's Attorney At Attorney torney Thompson are now awaiting the he result o of an investigation in White county of the circumstances under which a high sch ol girl died in Centerville three years ago ago |