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Show fJJMONOF Itinerant Clergyman, Held for Villiaca Axe Murders in 1912, Facing Trial. DES MOINES. Ia., Sept. 1. WIUi the reported repudiation of the alleged alleg-ed confession of Rev. George J. Kelley, Kel-ley, itinerant clergyman, that he committed com-mitted the YilHsca axe murders of 1912, preparations for his trial in connection con-nection with the murders next Tuesday Tues-day continued today. Kelley, according to H. M. Havner, attorney general of Iowa, confessed yesterday morning to the county attorney at-torney and sheriff of Harrison county in the jail at Logan, la., where he had been held. Mr. Harver said no coercion coer-cion was used in obtaining the alleged confession. Counsel for Kelley, on the other hand, announced that tho clergyman had repudiated the confyjsion which Judge A. L. Sutton of Omaha, one of Kelley's attorneys said the minister had been "scared Into making." Victims o the axo murderer, claln the night of June 9, 1912, in tho homo of J. B. Moore of Villisca, were Moore, his wife and their four children and two girls visiting tho family. Tho six children were all under 12 years of : age. |