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Show CONFESSES" HSS TfSTiOW FALSE BUTTE, MaT 29 -Positive statements state-ments by persons Interested In the icnBtf confirmed the report this morning jthat Joe Prevlsich, who testified 'against Detective J. P (Swede) Mur phy, ono of the best known police offi cers In Montana, before tho police commission last Tuesday, has confessed con-fessed to the county attorney's oflicc that his testimony was false, and that ho perjured himself when he told about gambling in this city and the allegod giving of a $10 bribe to Murphy. Mur-phy. Certain city officials aro Implicated Impli-cated in the confession. It being alleged al-leged that Prevlsich had been promised prom-ised a position on the police force If he testified against Swede Murphy It was PrevlBich'a testimony that resulted result-ed In the dismissal of Murphy County Jailor Dan Lynch stated this afternoon that Prevlsch had made a confession, In which he admitted the falsity of his testimony before the police commission, and completely exonerated ex-onerated Murphy by Btating that he had never seen Murphy before last Tuesday, and was not in any way acquainted ac-quainted with Murphy, to whom he had not spoken a word In his life The Jailer was reluctant to talk, and would not state positively what reward Prevlsich Pre-vlsich said he had been promised, but refused to deny that Prevlsich Bald he had boon offered a position on the police po-lice force if he testified against Murphy. Mur-phy. It Is said prominent citizens of the city coached him In his statements and told him what to say when ne took the stand. Sheriff O'Rourke stated that Assistant Assist-ant County Attornv Malonev took tho confession from Prevlsich." Maloney will not talk. tuTfle,.CTan,J J,,r-V visited Provlsch at the Jail today. When he took the witness wit-ness stand, Prevlsfch was Identified by tho manager of the Butte Electric rail-way rail-way as the Individual who came to him and sought a bribe, while acting wJ1 membf;r of J(1&e McClernan's hS p ' ,ntua tlme when lt geared chat Prevlsich was to be a member of the jury that was about to try a dam-Klli!f dam-Klli!f a&lnBt the street rallwav Previslch's arrest followed |