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Show HAUNTED BY CONSCIENCE Texas Man Confesses to Murder Committed Twelve Years Ago Redding, Cal., Oct, 29. Remorse for a murder committed twelve yeats ago haunted Edward Howard with Buch unremitting ferocity that today In tho county Jail he broke down completely and poured out his desire to mako full confession and beat peace. Howard has been employed for tho last six years ob caretaker for a ranch near here owned by C. H. Hahn of Oakland. Hahn Is a deeply religious man and obtained great ascondancy over the mind of Howard, who told his employer he had killed Frank Greenberg in Fort Worth, Tex., on December 27, 1900. Hahn wired to the Fort Worth police for confirmation confirma-tion and the reply wan a request for Howard's arrest. In Jail here this morning Howard said: "Yes, I killed Grcenburg. He owed mo money and wouldn't pay. When I asked him for It ho threatened to shoot me with a shotgun he was carrying. car-rying. I got my own shotgun and fired. Not until afterwards did I know I had killed him " Remorse, terror and brooding have so preyed on Howard that his mind seems weakened. |