Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — MANIAC ADMITS HE COMMITTED MURDERS [ARTICLE]

MANIAC ADMITS HE COMMITTED MURDERS

John Frank Hickey Makes Complete Breast of Murder of Joseph Josephs and Two Others. At Buffalo, N. Y„ Friday, where John Frank Hickey was taken after his arrest in the east, the man confessed that, he had killed Joseph Josephs, the 7-year-old Laekawana boy, and also two others. He said that his first crime was accidental, having taken the life of Ed Morey, of Lowell, Mass., moje than twenty years ago. This act started him on a life of crime and debauchery. In 1902 he killed a New York newsboy naihed Michael Kruck. The lad was 12 years of age. He was strangled to death In Central Park. A little over a year ago he strangled the Josephs boy to death' and threw his body in a cesspool. He wrote a confession of the crime some time ago, telling where the body could be found. No name was signed to the letter but expert detectives used t.he handwriting as a means of determining who the writer was and they fastened the crime on Hickey and then found where he was staying. He makes a full, confession of the murders and says he commits them when filled with whisky. He seems to live a dual personality. The district attorney at Buffalo says that the details of the c"imes are too revolting for publication. -