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Show $ WIDOW ADMTTS G9VINGP0IS0N Her Aged Father-in -Law Wanted to Die, Reads Alleged Confession WHITE CLOUD. Mich.. Oct. 19 Mrs. Meda Ilodeii, 20-year-old widow, who faces charges of murdering her bushand, Romlc Hodell, and her father-in-law, Daid Hodell. poisoned the latter at his own request, according accord-ing to testimony Introduced by the state at her trial here Wednesday. "The old man waa sick and miserable. miser-able. He abked me to put him out of the way, and I thought It would bo better for us If he were over there bo I did It." read a signed statement Introduced as Mrs. HOflell's confession. confes-sion. STENOGRAPHER TESTIFIES. Mrs Hodell, according to the state-it. state-it. put poison In tho dead man's coffee and ho died several hours later, as he waa about to enter her homo wli h an armful of stovewood The alleged confession wa6 made mi i in iiibmi Kmm&mmmm iimiiii inu. willingly, according to Fern Miller, a stenographer, who testified she took It In the office of former Presocutor Arthur j Butler of Big Rapids and in the presence of Justice Arthur Bon-nett. Bon-nett. APOPLEXY ASSIGNED, Th defense Intimated that it might ask that the body of David Hodell bo exhumed and examined by physicians for symptoms of apoplexy. This wis assigned as the cause of death by an un dertaker. State police officials were put on the stand to refute tho charg.' of the defense that Mrs. Hodell confers"' 1 under duress The officers denied they had resorted to a play upon the superstitions of the woman, or had threatened either Mrs. Hodell or her brothers, Lee and Herman Dudgeon, who are also alleged to have made Ftatements Implicating ner |