People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Confesses a Murder. [ARTICLE]

Confesses a Murder.

Mansfield, 0.. Aug. 29.—John J. Bertram, one of the tramps arrested at Ashland has confessed that he cut the throat of the man murdered on a Pennsylvania train. Bertram, who is a German, says he committed the murder because the man tried to throw him off the train.