The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-19
THE sToRY OF A SHOCKING CRIME
One or the Murderers OF the Maybe Family
Makes n Full Confessldu,
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I,y telegraph to the DspatchJ
HUNTERS POINT. L. L., january 10 Ed
ward Tuppan. who Il under arrest on sus-
picioD Of being implicated Ia the Townsend
Outrage, confessed this morning that his
brother John and himself were concerned
in the murder of Mrs. Maybee and her
daughter at Brookyille.
DETAILS OF THE CONFESSION.
The following Is the confession giving
the horrible details OF the manner in which
his brother John murdered Mrs. Maybee
and daughter: i know who took the lives
OF Lydia and Annie Maybee on the eve
ming OF November 18th. 1t was John B.
Tappan, my brother. He was in the barn
when Mrs. Maybee came in. was not in
the barn. l saw John 90 into the barn.
He went in the double doors. was ut
the front side OF my house when he went
in, feeding the pigs. When John
CHoKED TIE OLD LADY TO DEATH
was out In front OF the barn. saw
him. He choked 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. Isaw him do It. Twas looking
through the door. It was light enough Tor
me to see in the stable. When John had her
by the throat she was on tile ground.
When she came in for the leaves John was
standing In the stable where the leaves
were. IL took from ten TO fifteen minutes
to choke her TO death. after she was dead
John picked her up and laid her i'm the
back OF the stable. saw him throw some
leaves over her. ! was standing on the
barn floor very near the opening In the
door that goes down in the stable. saw
the whole thing myself.
WAITING FOR ANNIE.
After she was dead John said: 81 am
going to wait for Annie. nm going TO
choke her. too. II choke her, too, TO
one will know about it. Then can go to
the house and get the money" Annie
opened the barn-dOor about two feet wide.
When she stepped in the door John grab
he'd her by the right arm and threw her
down. / was on the floor about three feet
from where he grabbed her. lie threw
her down on the floor. held her
by the right wrist, put his knee
upon her left arm, and with his right hand
took 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 CO.. 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 Der into the stable, near her |
mother, and covered her up with leaves. !
and said, "Now am going to the house."
AFTER THE OLD MAN.
Old Mr. Maybee said. "Who is there ?"
Then he went upstairs in Mrs. Maybee's !
room, when Mr.. Maybee knocked on the |
floor. / stood by the door. | saw him do |
it. Then John came downstairs. and |
went IN front OF Mr.. Maybec very close to |
the hall, ran his hand up and down Mr. |
Maybee'S breast, and said: 81 want that |
watch you had two years ago" Mr.. May |
bee said, 81 amt got it; l am blind and |
can't see to get it," 81 know that" said |
John. John then said, IL must kill you, |
them lie snatched the cane out Of Mr.. |
Maybee's hand and struck him with it |
twice on the head. John went upstairs !
again and came back. said,
"IHAvE ALL WANT"
We came out and he went to the cedarS by |
the spring and went home. / suppose he |
gave me ten dollars in bills. | have it |
now, but not with me. / will bring it to |
You. | will bring it to-day IL l can. John |
showed me the pin and watch by the door
outside. could see them; he got them
up stairs, he said. lIe did not tell me how
much money he got. He did not tell me
what he was gong to do with the watch !
and pin. do not know what he did with |
them. i have not since seen my brother |
alone 10 this day and this hour. | saw him |
stand by the wagon-house at the Maybee |
auction when was going up the hill west |
OF my house, after dinner, on my way to |
work at Henry Rushmore's; that was the |
only time | have seen him since the night |
the Maybee murders were committed.
After John showed me the watch and pin
/ went home by the old bridge; this was
about quarter to 6; know it WAS not 6
O'Clock; | am sure OF it: my wife asked me !
where had been, and ! told her. " Down
the road" Nv wife does not know that |
had 4 hand in the Maybee murder.
Sworn to by Edmund s. Tappen, to
Halsted and Frost, unsolicited by them. (
believing it to be my duty to makea COM !
pletc confession in regard to the part took /
in the Maybee murder.