Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1916 — CONFESSES ON DEATHBED [ARTICLE]

CONFESSES ON DEATHBED

By the Story a Young Woman of Jacksonville, Fla., Long Suspected of Crime, Is Exonerated. Jacksonville, Fla. —A belated confession in a local liospitul by a dying woman clears up a murder mystery and exonerates a well-known young woman of this city. For seven years that young woman, has lived under the stigma of having committed the crime. Miss Jesse Brown is the young woman. The “other woman” is Laura Livingston, who, at the point of death from tuberculosis, was unwilling to die in silence when her speech could right a great wrong that had been done to an innocent woman. The man who was killed was Earl P. Adams, an actor, then director of the Mable Paige stock company. In April, 1909, that company was playing in Jacksonville and Adams was engaged to be married to Miss Brown. According to the story then told, he desired to break his engagement with Miss Brown so that he might marry Miss Elizabeth Bagley. According to that same story, which had gained credence and was regaled as true until Adams was shot by Miss Brown when he went to-her home to explain why he had broken his engagement. Miss Brown w r as arrested at the time, but freed through lack of evidence. All of those theories were disproved in the light of the confession of Laura Livingston, who says that Adams was shot by Charles Wiggins, her sweetheart.