The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-07
THE mUnDEnEK TwIECEEELI..

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1 hope theys lay us where VIC played, just
tncnty years ago.
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THE MUKDERER TVIICKEELI.'
.7he Greatest villain on the Fnce
or the Earth.
The most Remarkable Confession on
RccOrd-Ehe Flight of Hrs. TwItch.
eII-Tne Story OF the Murderer
nv Developed On the TriRl-
MRS. IWIIchcI RuINch-
Legal JuEEIcry.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
We print the confession of George S.
TWitchell, Jr., convicted of the murder
of Mrs. Mary Il. Hill. 1t wus made in
the presence of the Rev. George Bring
hurst andtWilIinm b. Perkins, Prison
Superintendent. After carefully ex-
amining the So called "confession," we
have come TO the conclusion that
Twitchell has not spoken the truth,
and that, instead of the tale now told
being real statement of fncts, il is q
thorough fabrication. In truth, we
think that George S. TwitChell has adj
ded another lie to his many crimes,
and one, too, by which he hopes TO es-
cape the impending death sentence.
a WOMAN SAFE, BUT RUINED.
Let US look for moment at the po-
sitiOn of the parties. Twltchell has
been convicted, and has been sentenced
to death on next Thursday. All efforts
to obtain pardon from the Governor
have failed. His case has, by species
OF legal iugglery, been brought before
the Supreme Court OF the United States,
and the judges are now deliberating on
their action in the matter. There is no
possible hope for Twitchell except in
! the action of the Supreme Court OF the
| United States. 10 influence the minds
I F.I, n
Meanwhile, Mrs. Twitchell has been
tried and acquitted. Tho law of the
land preventAeny one being more than
once put i'll jeopardy of life or limb.
She, therefore, Is safe. Nothing can
again put her into the criminal dock
| for the crime OF mururEiuS her mother.
Then what is IL more natural thing to
| be done by the prisoner than to make
| confession which Will make the wife
| the murderer and he the accessory after
| the fact?. She cannot be injured save in
regulations, and her trial has done all
that injury possible. She has nothing
Ito lose and he everything 10 gain, and
| therefore it is not likely liza! he would
4 make confession accusing her OF the
murder; but we contemplated even
more than this. We expect that she
will corroborate the confession. Now,
| in this position OF affairs, what does
|IwitchelI do? he makes just such
confession ns might be expected.
TwITCHELL's CONFESSION OF THE MUIR
| DER.
I went to my room on the night of
| the murder, and instead of going to
| bed laid down on the lounge in my
room and fell asleep. My wife was in
| bed at the time. was reused by her
repeated calls, and-ran down to the
dining room, where L found her much
excited, saying, II have had quarrel
with mother, and killed herr" do not
| know whether she said "saVe mel" or
"help me hide it !" but at last he threw
the body of Mrs. Hill ont fthe window
to make it look as if she fell out; went
down stairs and washed my hands aud
face at the hydrant; then went TO my
room, udressed and went to bed; my
| wife came up afterwArd and got into
| bed, where we stayed until Sarah
Campbell rung the bell; l think we
were in bed ten or twenty minutes; I
made a solemn vow to the eternal God
that night that would never reveal it;
but l cannot keep it any longer; am
sorry thatI have said / knew nothing
OF it; but I did it with vow in my
mind, and to save my wife. now
make these disclosures that I may have
peace with God.
! .-.TEsa GEORGE s: Tw1TCHELL, JR.
BANNING FACTS AND NATURAL INFER
ENCEs.
Many facts were brought out on the
trial which show the utter falsity of
the s'con fession." If he was in his room
and the woman committed the murder,
how came those spurts of blood on his
clothesH 'HowIwere the sprinkled drops
1 there II he was not where the blood
rushed out at every blow? If his wife
was the murderess and struck. the
her clothing? The fact that the wall
had semi-circles of drops of blood
proves that the irst blow caused the
blood to squirt on the person of the
| murderer as we'll as on the wall. How
did Mrs. Twitchell escape all those
drops7 No.. The silent witnesses
which spoke so strongly on the trial
are still as eloquent now, and are pro-.
/ claiming that the confession" like the
i theory of innocence adduced on the
trial, is a deeply concocted fnlsehoOd.
/ Again, il Mrs. T~itchell set up such
crying as to reach the ears of her hus.
band In his bedroom, how was 1t that
Mr.. montgomery; who was in the next
i house about, the time of athe murder,
never heard the calls7 This of itself is
q small link against the "confession."
But it is the blood spotsi 1t is the
sprinkled and the olotted blood on
| Twitchell, which still affords the most
i convincing and undeniable proof Of his
guilt, and as long as those spots con-
tinue, so long will every confession"
be proved false which does not do away
with them. Looking then at the rela-
tive position of the two parties, what is
more natural than that the "confes-
sion" should come just now to influ-
ence the Judges of the Supreme Court?
Aud the flight of Mrs. Twitchell, when
she is certain to be caught, and the cor
roboration of the confession" would
be more dramatic from fugitive than
from a resident.
THE FLIGHT OF MRS. Tw1rcHELL.
On Saturday morning Mrs. Camilla
E. Twitchell fled from the city, and has
4 gone, no one knows whittier. About a
! week ago she visited the condemned
! man in his cell for the last time. She
n then had CONVERSATION with the Rev,
Mr.. Bringhurst, in the course of which
Il she manifested the. ltyeliest, concern as
A to whether her husband had said any
j thing to his spiritual adviser which
4 would implieate erin the murder. She