The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
THE LONG ISLAND MYSTERY.
Confession of One of the Participants
in the Terrible Tragedy.
The Victims Clicked to Death, Their Bodies
Thrown in the Barn, and the House
RObbed-Crime in General
THE MAYBEE DOUBLE MURDER.
Edward Tappan COnfesses that His Brother
Killed the Woman in His Presence.

Edward Tappan COnfesses that His Brother
Killed the Woman in His Presence.
HUNTERS POINT, L. l., Jan. 1S.-Edward Tap
pan, arrested in connection with the Townsend
outrage, eonfesses that his brother John and
himself were concerned IN the murder of Mrs.
Maybee and daughter. at Brookville. The fol-
lowing is the confession:
Il know who took the lives of Ida and Ida
Maybee, ON the evening of Nov. IT, It was John
B. Tappan. my brother He was in the barn
when Mrs. Maybee came in. was not in the
barn l saw John go in the barn. He went in
the double doors / was ON the front side O; my
house, when he went in, feeding the pigs. When
John choked the old lady to death l was at the
front of the barn. / saw him. He choked her
to death on the barn floor He caught her by
he wrist with one hand and held her by the
throat with the other. 1 saw him do
it. 1 looking through the door.
1t was light enough for me to see in
in the stable. When John had her by the throat
she was on the ground. When she came in for
leaves, John was standing in the stable where
the leaves We're. 1t 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 of the stable | saw him throw some leaves
over her. | was standing on the barn floor,
near the opening IN the door that goes down
in the stable / saw the whole thing myself.
After she was dead, John said am going to
wait for Annie. l am gong to choke her too IL
choke her too, no one will know about it, Then
can go to the house and get their money
Annie opened the barn-door about two feet wide,
and when she stepped in the door, John grabbed
her by the right arm and threw her down. l
was on the floor, about three feet from where he
grabbed her. He threw her down on the holr
and held her by the right wrist, and put his knee
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her by the throat She tried to get away
from him when he grabbed her by the arm. She
grabbed at his face. She reached his face.
saw her hand close over his nose and mouth.
She said, let me 60 That is 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 in the stable near her mother and
covered her all up with leaves, and said: Now
house and went in the kitchen door. Old Mr..
Maybee said: who Is theref John said Its me-
We then went up stairs to Mrs. Maybees roolli,
when Mr.. Maybee knocked on the floor. / stood
by the door. / saw him do it. Then John
came down stairs and went in front of Maybee,
who was very close to the hall, and ran his hand
up and down Mr.. Maybee's breast, and said: I
want that gold which you had two years ago.
"Maybee said; amt got it; / am blind, and
can't see to get it 5...3 p 4r
% i know that said John.
'John then said; i must kill you them
fThen he snatehed a cane out of Maybee's
John went up stairs again, and came back. l
said: 4 have all | want
1--WE came out. He went to the cedars by the
spring, and went home. 1 suppose he gave me
ten dollars in bills have it now, but not with
me. will bring it to you
Il will bring it to-day, if 1
can. John showed me the pin and watch by
the door outside. Icould see them. / got them
up stairs he said He did not tell me how
much money he got Did net tell me what
he was going to do with the watch and pin.
do not know what he did with them. have
not seen my brother John since alone to this
day and to this hour. l saw him stand by the
wagon-house at Maybee's auction when 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
l have seen him since the night
the Maybee murders were committed. After
John showed me the watch and pin, l wenthome
by the old bridge. This was about quarter to
g. / know it was not o'clock. l am sure of it.
My wife asked me where had been and | told
her down the road. My wife does not know
had hand in the Maybee murder" Tappan
swears the confession is made unsolicited. tbe-
lieving it to be my duty to make complete con
fession in regard to the part l took in the May
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