Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — SUSPECT CONFESSES [ARTICLE]

SUSPECT CONFESSES

That He and Another Man Killed a Family of Three. Hannibal, Mo., February 21.John Kidwell was arrested here today after he tyad confessed the murder of a family of three at Wellington, Kan., October 18, 1912. The McAnnally family, consisting of an aged man, his wife and a grown daughter, were killed while I

sleeping in a tent near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roundhouse at Wellington. Kidwell came here from Moberly, Mo., three weeks ago.. A railroad detective who suspected him gained his confidence, and according to the local authorities, the confession of today resulted. Kidwell implicated another man in the crime. ’