Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — CONFESSES TO A MURDER. [ARTICLE]

CONFESSES TO A MURDER.

George Goddard gave himself up a* Madison, Thursday, to Sheriff Kohl, con-; fessing to having killed Alexander Smith, sight clerk of the Occidental house in Chicago, on Oct. 9. Goddard said that ho jot Into a scuffle with Alexander Smith' ibout 2 o’clock a. m.. and in the struggle a revolver was exploded, onoof the bullet* mtering Smith’s abdomen, and he died its two hours. They had beep drinking an I the fight began about a woman “whom h f accused me of rooming with. I denied its ind he struck me with a heavy key. After he was dead I wandered into the street tnd some friends had my wound patched up In a saloon. I hid in a room for two lays and then left Chicago, wandering about inwarions cities until I came heru.*,