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Show MURDERER CONFESSES IS KILLING iff BURNING A 111 ANP A MAN Mrs. Agnes Jackson's Neck Was Broken and Her Body Placed on a Fire-One Body Hidden Under a Bridge S;.o'r;an Wash , Jin-'ary 2' Ac-cok:!h? Ac-cok:!h? to sLitementb nn ile by Dr L. B. Harvey of Colvilie, Wash., and Dr. M. F. Stett.-rR nf Spokane, the ii an known as James F. Loan, but vlirse real name is believed to be J r lb-rick Jahns, and who has bee n r-: trial at Colvilie the last ten days for the murder of Mr. Anes Jan son, his confessed not only to that crime but to two other murders. Tho doctors doc-tors were closeted with the accused man Hovcral hours as mental experts. Thoy state publicly that ho told them j 1 killed Mrs. Janson by breaking h r neck In the heat of anger, and , then burned her body In tho Are. He said, report tho doctors, that be v uidered E. R, Shlvley In Spokane and F-hippod the body north In a trunk ami rurnfd It on his farm. It Is related that ho alto eonfessed that bf killed the real James Logan. In Maplo Falls, Whntcom county, and hid the body under a bridge at Maplo Falls. Also, that he cashed a draft for $S5,-000 $S5,-000 on the Exchange National ibnnk in ! Now Orleans after he had returned from the Boer war in South Africa and j that the bank records will show that the draft was cashed. |