Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-26
THE MAYBE MYSTERY.
The Most cold-bloodei and Thrilling
Confession On Record.

Confession On Record.
Our readers have heard much by way of
telegraphic advices of the Maybee mystery.
Below we give the confession OF one of the
murderers. The two are brothers. aged
respectively 81 and 81 years, and both are
men with families. The confession is one
of the most cold blooded and remarkable
on record. The New York Herald of
January 10th says;
The excitement was intense in the village
of Oyster Bay yesterday morning when il
became known that Edmund s Tappan. of
Brookville, who for q long time past has
been suspected Of the murder of the Nav.
bee women, had made a confession impli.
eating his brother, John B. Tappan, Who'll
now under arrest on suspicion of commit.
ting the assault upon Mr.. and Mr.. James
c. Townsend st Oyster Bay village, ON the
night OF the Sth inst. For some two weeks
past Edmund Tsppan has been under the
constant surveillance Of the officers. and
when examined on Tuesday last admitted
that he knew who killed the Maybee
women, but added 81 did not lit. " The
detective officers Wood, Smith, Mcdonald
and Ayres kept after him day and night.
and late on Thursday he Went TO .he house
of Halstead II. Frost at East Norwich.
Mr. Frost has known Tsppan all his life,
and Tappsn contided in him, and to him he
made the following confession, which was
reduced to writing By Mr.. Frost, who is a
Notary Public, and signed by Edmund
Tappan. Edmund Tappau, being sworn,
said
THE Confession.
know who took the lives of Lydia and
Annie Maybse on the evening of Novem.
Der l75h. 1t was John B. Tappau, my
brother. He was in the barn when Mrs
Maybee came in. l was not in the barn
| saw John 90 in the barn he went in the
double doors. l was at the front side of
my house when he entered, feeding the
pigs, when John choked the old lady 10
death. l was out in front of the barn
when l saw him. He cho5ed her TO death
on the barn floor He caught her by the
wrist with one hand and took her by the
throat with the other. l saw him do it. /
was looking through the door. l. was
ligat enough for me to see in the stable.
MRS. MAYBEE's DEATH.
When John had her by the throat she
was on the floor. When she came in for
the leaves John was standing in the stable
where the leaves were II took from ten
to fifteen minutes to choke her to death
After she was dead John picked her up and
laid her in the back stable. then saw
him throw some leaves over her. | was
standing on the barn floor, near the open
ing of the door that goes down by the sta.
IL ! H. l., >,
she was dead, John said :" | am going to
wait for Annie am going to choke her,
too. If | choke her, too, no one will know
about it, then | can go to the house and
get money"
THE ATTACK OF THE DAUGHTER,
Annie opened the barn door about two
feet wide, and when she stepped in the
door John grabbed her by The night arm
and threw her down. was on the floor
about three feet from where he grabbed
her. He threw her down on the floor sEd
held her by the right wrist, and put his
knee upon her left arm, and with his right
took her by the throat. She tried t. get
away frcm him. When he grabbed her by
the arm she grabbed at his face, and | saw
her hand close over his nose and .aouth.
She said, " Let me 90. That was all she
said. Then he held her by the throat until
she was dead. She died in about ten or
fifteen minutes. He carried her into the
stable near her mother, and covered her all
up with leaves, and said " Now | am
going to the house" We both went and
entered the kitchen door. Ola Mr. MAY
bee said, "Who is there ?" John said,
''Is's me-" And then he went up stairs IN
Mrs. Msybee's room.
RoBBING TIE OLD MAN.
When Mr. Maybee knocked on the floor
I stood by the door, saw him do it.
Then John came down stairs and went in
front of Mr.. Maybee, very close to him,
ran his hand up and down Mr.. Maybee's
breast and said, 1" want that gold watch
you had two years ago." Mr. Msybee
said, " amt got it an blind and cant
see to get it" 81 know that, said John.
John then said, 81 must kill you - and
suatehed the cane out Of Mr.. Maybee
hand and struck him with it twice on the
head. John went up stairs again and came
back. He said, Il have all want. We
came out. He vent to the Cadarsby
Spring and went home. l suppose he gave
me SO IN bills. l have it now, but not
with me; will bringit to you. john showed
me the pin and watch by the door out
side. l could see them. g. got them mp
stairs, he said. He did not tell me how
much money he got, nor did he tell me
what he was going to do with the watch
and pin. | do not know what he did with
them.
THE ACCOMPLICE'S CONSCIENCE.
I have not seen my brother John since
alone to this day and this hour. l saw him
stand by the wsgon-hous the day of the
Maybee auction, when l was going up the
hill west of my house after dinner, on my
way to work at Henry Rushmore's. That
is the only time I have seen him since the
night the Maybee murders were commit
ted. After John showed me the watch and
pin l went home by the old bridge. This
was about quarter to 6. l know it vas
not 6 o'clock | am sure of it. Ny wife
asked me where l had been, and l told her
down the road. My wife does not know
that l had a hand IN the Msybee murders.
Sworn to by Edmund S. Tappan, t. Hal
stead Frost, unsolicited by him, believing
it to be my duty 70 make q complete con-
fession in regard to the part l took in the
Msybee murders.
MOORISH JEALoUsY.-A. G. Heaton,
whose return to Paris we mentioned the
other day, has in his studio the authentic
portrait Of a Moorish woman of the better
class, and he is one of the few painters who
ever induced Moorish lady to take off
her vsil in the presence of a Frank. The
ladies' of Morocco would much rather pose