Show POISONED PIE IS CAUSE GAUSE OF DEATH nEATH Prosecutor P Produces Confession Confession Confes Confes- sion That Wyoming Girl Killed Father Republican Special Service Evanston Wyo April D. D 9 A jury has hns been secured to try tho case of or Annie Ahnie nr charged with tho the murder of her father by I strychnine poisoning at Smoot Wyo 0 Count County Attorney David G G. Thomas In his opening statement tion to tho the would Jur Jury stated that t Vi the 4 was guilty guilt of r- r rth v th the crime dic mut mo committed um l tc jani by b b reliable witnesses and a written eon con con- t of or Annie Bruce Druce defendant made In tho presence of or himself the sheriff and his deputy J. J II IL o of the defense stated to the Jury jur that Jhc would prove pro the written confes confes- Won sion l n to b bo bra of or no value and that the girl hall had boon ben induced to sign her name to a blank sheet of or paper over which the tho prosecution afterwards wrote the confession Text Tet of if r lna Following Is the thi- confession as ns signed by b Annie Bruce August 17 iT 1 1007 O I I. I Annie Annio Druco of Smoot UInta county count Wyo yo make malce mal e the following statement of my wn free freewill freewill will wUI and ancI accord without an any promise of or reward from any nn ono one and without compulsion compUlsIon com corn or threats or hope hono of ot benefit S S I hut but simply to relieve m my conscience ol of the tho guilt upon my soul On the Oth day doy of ot March farch A. A D. D 1907 I r mado made o fi pies five pies while I was In the thenet net of oC making malting tho pies a feeling or a a. wish came camo over mo to kill some ono one and this feeling I r could not resist so sor J 1 r went to the store and procured a u bottle bottJe of ot poison polson which I r know knew w was war there took tool tho the bottle boUle of poison polson out of ot the tho lower box which was vas c-a c full fall amIto and amI to do To so J I removed removed- tho the upper box After I secured tho the poison polson 1 put the upper box hox on nn tho low r box wont I n t ld it n l rill 1 v J h 3 W 0 l 1 I U lle d. d r the tho bottle bottlo dt di Into the tho pine Tho The poison was strychnine nine I 1 i put the s po poison n Into tho the last plo pie T I made In tho the morning ma mo an and myself were preparing pas pa's lunch and ma mf said old to m mo- mo Annie fetch eteh me mc a n apie apie pie from rom tho cupboard I brought the pl pie which 1 had poisoned po I know knew it poisoned arsi this plo pic was afterwards afterwards after after- was vas wards sent b by ma to the ranch It was as tho the pie plo that killed my pa pC After pa po tiled died I felt elt awfully sorry I bawled n. n and l cried a 0 great deal leal I yet feel reel awfully sorry that I put the poison in tho the pie that killed my pa pa- paI I make this statement state state- mont ment in the tho presence o or of D. D G. G Thomas county and anI prosecuting attorney Jonathan Jones sheriff and William DeLoney deputy sheriff v Signed by A ANNIE NIE BRUCE BRICE In the present of o-f D. D G. G Thomas Thoma Jonathan Jones iones anti and V. V C C. C Court At t 9 0 o'clock this morning It was waa Im- Im to gain admission to tho the courtroom court courtroom being wo wo- wo- wo room most of the spectators men Lawrence Bruce Druce brother of ot the witness witness wit wit- ness was the th first witness lIe He described de do- scribed the affair and amI stated that after his father had eaten tho the pio pia that ho he had said ho had by eating tho pie and nol for Lawrence to save savo it Ills wife arriving on tho the scene was father lather told b by Lawrence as to what his had said but she threw the plo pie Into the c el Professor ProCessor Knight state chemist will be bo a n witness in the tho case casen a n as he be made an on analysis l of tho the stomach of at Bruce and stated that strychnine str was found therein |