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Show KETCHEL'S 00000000000000000 o 0 O SPRINGFIELD. Mo, Oct. 1C fl O Walter A. llnrtz. who shot and 0 O killed Stanley Ketchel, world's 0 O middleweight champion, jester- 0 O day morning, was captured t"day 0 Oat the home of Thomas Haggard, 0 ! O one mile from Niangua, Mo. 0 O Hurlz was taken to the Webster 0 O county Jail at Nashfleld, where 0 O he Is being closely guarded. 0 O After beiug placed In his cell, 0 C the prisoner made a confession, 0 O in which he declared he shot 0 O Ketchel In 3elf defense. He sas O O he ordered the prize fighter to 0 O throw up his hands and when he 0 O did not obey him, he fired, 0 O 0 ooooocoooooooooo Last nights overcome with huneer and faticue from fleeing through tte rough Ozark country, Hurt? reachM the home of Thomas Haggard, where he applied for a place to sleep ami something to cat. He wn5 given f"ol nnd a IimI. At that time Haggard hnl not heard of the shooting, but a short time later learned of the affair. H also received a description of thf slaer and for several hours whiV Hnrtz was sleeping, he stood guard with n shotgun. Farmers Help to Make Capture. Shortly after 1 o'clock this morn Ing, Haggard secured the services of three neighbors and they awakened Hurt, at the point of a gun. They forced the man tn roll up his sleeves and finding a tattoo mark there, accused ac-cused him of having killed Ketchel Then man then broke down aud admitted ad-mitted tho shootine. 1,-Uer he was turned over to the officers and taken to Marsbfield Said Insulted Goldie Smith, Hurtz. In felling the story of the shooting, assert Ketchel made Insulting In-sulting remarks to Goldie Smith, a cook, employed at the farm. He says words passed between Ketchel and himself nd he then demanded that the pugilist throw up his hands. When the champion refused to do this, he declared he was so frightened., knowing know-ing Ketchel carried a revolver, that he fired an 1 without fully realizing what he had done, fled. Woman in tho Case in Jan. Oolclie Smith, the woman In tho ! case, has been la ken to tho Webster county jnll and will be held pendln? ! an inquest which will be held tomor- j row Funeral services over the body ' of the prize fighter were held at tho j Elks' cluh here today and tomorrow ,' the corpse will bo taken to Grand I Rapids, Mich, the home of Ketehel's I parents. The body will be nccompti nled by R. P. Dickerson, with whom j Ketchel was visiting at the time he j decided to buy a ranch In this county, j Local officers .n-sserl that Ketehel's . slayer tonight admitted that bis real ; name is Wallop Dlpley; that his hom is at Webb City. Mo., and that he is a j deserter from the United States army. ! To avoi,j detection, he roamed over i the country, working as a barber un'H 1 he met Oldie Smith, at Muff, Chrl- j tlan conntyi Mo., a month a?o. The two then came here and secured wort ou the Dickinson ranch. Goldie Smith Talke. ' Goldie Smith, over whom the shout- ( Ing Is said to have occurred, reiterate-! today her statement of yesterday that , Ketchel had made Insulting remarks ; to her and that when she t"ld Dlpley. alias Hurtz, the shooting followed ' admitted, however, that she and the j I slayer were not man and wife, aay'D.C she had known Hurtz little more than a month P,eond this the woman refused to tailc. I The slayer has not been told of tn? ! ftatemenl ma-Je by Mrs Smith and be 1 still maintains she is his wife. |
