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Show Negro Confciirs E.nht Murders Wa. o, Te. A Bern s of ci line which l.avo baffled officers here f.r the part year were cleared 1 ridav IT the alio, d conf. ssion of Koval Mitch-ell, Mitch-ell, iiero, to liinlu,' committed r ulit murders, three assault with Intent to murder mid a number of attacks on women from 1 eoruary 1'-, P.h'-'. t January 1'.', li'-i-t, nccordnr,' to Sherif' l.esl.e Stecall and County Attorney C. S. l'urmcr. Tl.reo women wore assaulted when their escorts were killed, to of the women having been subjected to two assaults, neeordlns to tho alle.ced cenfesson. The con. tension was niacio to the sheriff and county prosecutor Thursday, put In writing and sinned by Mitchell. Two nccroes were tried and convicted for the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Harker and Turk, tho killing of whom Mitchell Mitch-ell confessed, ('no of these nccroes. Cooper Johnson, was ctiven the death penalty, and the other, l'.cnnij i ouna'. life Imprisonment. Their eases aro now ou appeal. |