Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — SAYS HE KILLED COX. [ARTICLE]

SAYS HE KILLED COX.

JOHN SMITH MAKES CONFESSION IN JACKSON, KY. . _.. t , i. Vafolds ri«( Behind Fend Slnrdfr and NnmC* Person* Who lioltiiiitrd Crime—Vaudeville Singer In Divorced from Preacher Husband. - John Smith. one of d Ite in<»n under indictmont at Jackson. Ky.. for the murder of t)r. B. I). Cox. lias pintle a confession ■which is in (he hands of Attorney Jonett for the commonwealth. In this confession Smith names;James Hargis and I’dward Callahan as moving spirits in the crime. He says Hargis and Callahan irduoed him to enter the conspiracy against L>r. Cox, making nromiscs to see that lie was acquitted and to give him a jt*h. lie tells about the murder in detail and says that Callahan gave him stiHl the killing, saying Jim Hargis sent it to.him. According to the confession three men shot Dr. Cos. Smith's words in describing the murder are: “So judge and I’d put us three—Spicer, Abner and myself—-under the barn shed and sent Elbert Hargis to stand on the corner. When Dr. Cos left his otrice. and gnt opyio- , site wiicrcwve w^einJuriiiuwEih.n-tllai'-gis was to call to him, so wo would know it was Dr. Cox. We stayed under the shed about one hour, and while we were there Ed Callahan came to us and stayed With us until just about twenty minutes before Dr. Cox. was killed, and be told us to be sure not to miss him. When Dr. Cox did start from bis borne and came down just across the street from us. Elbert Hargis called to him ami said ; .'is it you. 1 tooV and ho said ‘Vos’ and stopped, and all three of us fired at the same time, or go near the same that it sounded like one report." j ,

ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN'. Tie* Placed on Track and Engine and Bnggnffr Car I,cave Rail*. An attempt was made to wreck the Clinton line passenger train on the St. Louis and Sun Francisco Railroad. While going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, the engine at a point three, miles south of Lowry City. Mo., struck three tie* which lmd been placed across the track. The engine threw off two of the ties, but tile third was carried to Lowry City, where it struck a guard rail and derailed the engine and baggage car. This is the third attempt that bias been made recently to wreck this train. Frank Silvers. the engineer of the Train, seems tfT be the special object of the wreckers’, wrath, as. lie lias been on the engine each time that an attempt to wreck has been made.

DANCED AS HI SBAN'D PRAYED. Mlnlater** Wife, n Vnndcvllle Slugcr. Oct* Pnkoln Divorce. Judge Joseph W. .Tones of Sioux Falls, S. IX, has granted a divorce to Mrs. Florence Halliday llrown. formerly of New York, who. when her husband was preaching in Brooklyn, created a sensation by appearing as a vaudeville singer nnd dancer. She did it, she said, to help pay for the education of her son. Since last March Mrs. Brown has been a resident of Sioux Falls. The defendant was Ilev. Charles S. Brown Of Jersey City.' Mrs. Brown! is a grandniece of Sir Andrew Halliday, knighted by Queen Victoria for his -musical ability; She was a soloist in a church choir when she was married to Ilev. Mr. Brown.

Held for Powder Mill Plot. Charles Whitenback and John Poynter. charged whit attempting to kill George Mellert and blow tip the plant of the King Powder Company at Lebanon, Ohio, •were bound over to Hie grand" jury in $2,000 each. Neither could furnish this and they were returned to jail. George King testified that if the attempt to blow up the plant had been successful forty lives would have been lost.

Million Hollar Merjror of Show*. The Wallace, Ilagenhaek and Van .Vtn.berg shows were merged at Peru, the combined property being wOftli $1,000,000. The owners of the combined shows are Benjamin E. Wallace cif Peru. John Talbott of Denver. Jere Mugaviu and John H. Ifhvlin of Cincinnati and Frank R. Tale of St. Louis. Jap* CanKht at Boundary. Six Japanese, headed by a sailor in the uniform of his own country, were captured at Anapra. X. M., by Immigration Inspector Cox. The Jajmnese had -been under the guidance of a Mexican and had smuggled themselves across the border by wading the Rio Grande river. Millionaire** Son I* Shot. Walter S. Bogle, ,Tr., son of Walter S. Bogle, president of the Crescent Coal and Mining Company, shot nnd killed himaelf accidentally, it is believed, in the family residence in Chicago.

Hijr Tranuvnal Gold Output. The gold output in the Transvaal for 1906 was £24,579.987 ($122,899,935), an Increase of nearly £4,000,000 ($20,000,000) over 1905. " ' Rock Island Ofllelala la Wreck. A special train carrying Vice President H. D. Mudge and a party of Itock Island officials went into the ditch near Hydro, Ok la. No one was injured. Street Robbery In New York. Miaa Margaret Maillard. the Chicago girl who recently attracted attention in New York by her sensatioual search for her father, was attacked on the street in that city by four men and bound, gagged and robbed. Homesteaders Klee Cold. Homesteaders from Indiana and Illinois on the Kinkaid act lands in Nebraska and. South Dakota are fleeing in droves by permission of President Roosevrit from -terrible suffering in their new homes. They are out of food and fuel.