Show HORRIBLE confession husband and father relates a terrible story of murder hammered the brains out of Hs wife and children the mother tried io escape but was overtaken and given a death blow kansas city march special to the star from emporia kas says john gilbert in the county jail confessed to brutally murdering his wife and four small children near enterprise kas last tuesday gilbert for whom a reward had been offered was arrested yesterday lie feigned not to know of the crime and today at first shammed insanity but finally hard pressed by sheriff oconnor gilbert confessed said ho was badly in debt and had been trying to leave enterprise for a long time he could not take his family he said and offered his wife divorce she kept nagging me about the children said gilbert and throwing them up to me I 1 told my wife if she i would give me ten dollars id leave and never bother her any more aur ing the I 1 got up and went out into the yard coming back I 1 picked up the hammer and hit the baby on the head my wife ran out into the road and was going over to the bors I 1 ran after her and caught her she said shed come back if id behave and I 1 thought I 1 would then but when we sot in why the baby was thrashing about on the bed and when I 1 saw it I 1 could not hold myself but hit my wife on the head and pounded her until she move and then took abo children when asked why he did it gilbert said 1 I dont know it seemed like I 1 just help it after seeing the baby there on the bed |