Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1899 — IT PREYED ON HIS MIND. [ARTICLE]

IT PREYED ON HIS MIND.

Indianian Confesses to a Virginia Murder Committed in 1864 John T. Rogers, who served in Company A, Eighteenth Indiana Infantry, in the civil war, went to the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, Ind., and stated that he wished to confess a crime that had been a continual strain on his mind for thirtyfive years. He said that he bad killed a man named Humphreys in Virginia in 1864. The crime was fastened on an innocent man, who suffered the death penalty.