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Show Claims He Killed the Man Who Shot Kimmel i St Louis, Feb. 10. ohn R. Swin. ne, a Now Mexico ranchman, testified testi-fied in the Kimmel case today that he killed the man who shot nnd killed George A. Kimmel in a forost In Oregon, Ore-gon, AugUBt 14, 189S, two weeks after af-ter Kimmel disappeared. Spinney was allowed to tell his story to tho jury with but slight interruption from attorneys for the lnauranco companv which holds pollclos amounting to $30,000 on Klmmel's life The de-fonse de-fonse plans to put on witnesses wh'j, It is contended, will discredit Swin-ney's Swin-ney's testimony. Tho witness is an acknowledged two-timo convict, having Berved two sentences for murder and train robbery. rob-bery. Kimmel. in company with tho late Robert M Sndcr. of Kansas City, a man named Johnson and Swlnnov. according ac-cording to Swinnoy's tostlmonj, left Kansas City the night Kimmel diBap nnflrnrl frtf Print Rnr flrn in OaovaU for a buried treasure of $40,000 Tho party went through Denver and San Francisco and took a sailing vessel from San Francisco to Coos Bay After finding $4,000 of the treasure, according lo Swinnoy, Johnson and Kimmel quarreled In the woods. John, son shot Kimmel, Swinney in turn shot John9on and Swino and Snyder burled the bodies of Johnson and Kimmel Kim-mel Jn the same grave, covered thp grave with leaves and slipped away. Swinney testified that Snyder took Kim mora effects and Intended to s,end them to his mother, but that Snyder was afraid to do so. The claimant, Andrew J. White, former convict, was not in court to hear Swinney's testimony. tes-timony. . oo |