Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — Confesses Old Crime. [ARTICLE]

Confesses Old Crime.

Smith Centre. Kan. —A mystery of 26 years was cleared up j»’hen C. G. Ray of Downs, near here,' received a letter from a man In Omaha, who confessed to setting fire to the Rqy barn in September, 1863. *The writer then was a boy six years old. His excuse for confessing the crime at this late, date is that he “had no luck” at anything he undertook, and he finally decided that things would change if he eonfessed thewrong done so many years ago. . .. i.. - -