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Show INEGHO SAID TQ ADMJTMURDERS Plantation Owner Asserts Alleged Confession Is Part of 'Frame Up' ATLANTA, G March 80. A j statement thnt ho had 'knocked four, negroes In tho hMil with an axe in .n work and hurled thjm In a pfle-1 ture" on the Williams plantation In' J.isnor county was coni.ilnod in th-ronfepsinn th-ronfepsinn said by officers to have horn ohtalnod from Clyde Mnnnlnp, n nrc.m hold n a material vltne.s in connection with murder charge apainst John William, owner of the plantation. DETAILS GIVEN, Mannin? wns said previously to have confessed that eleven negroes, held in peonnso on the Williams planta-:ion. planta-:ion. hrui boon killed. Thre.. bodies recently wore recovered from th river. Supplementing his earlier confession, confes-sion, the officers said, Manning had declared largo numbers of negroes were held under guard on the William! Wil-liam! plantation He explained, they said, that it had been necessary to kill the four ho knocked in the henrt, in order to escape with his own life. CHARGES 'FRAME CP.' A general denial to all tho charges agnlnst him was made by Williams, who was brought to the Fulton county tower for safe keeping William!?, who was indicted on a charge of murder at Covington, told a story of a long feud between his family and neighbors who. he said, had threatened o "break our necks in the federal courts." Williams calls the charges a "frame up." Ho is fifty-four years old and the father of twelve children The investigation in Covington has not yet ended |