The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-03
GRAHAM rs GUILTY.
Full Confession Of the Springfield. Missouri
Wife Murderer.
He Has No Excuse or Apology to Offer, and
Entirely Exonorates Mrs. BIalioy and
Cora Lee From An knowledge
of the Awful Crime.

!. SPRN6FIELD, Mo-, March Cora Lee and
Mrs. Nalloy were arrested yesterday after
noon, on warrants charging them with com
soon as arrested they broke down, bursting
into tears, and stating that now they be-
Geved in Graham's guilt. They declared
themselves innocent, and said they never
suspected Graham until the body was found
They were not committed TO Jail, but placed
so they could not communicate with Graham.
Graham was buslly engaged writing all the
afternoon and until late into the night.
The document on which he was engaged
proved to be full and complete confession
of the murder of his wife, and is addressed
TO the Circuit Judge and Prosecuting Attor-
Dey. 1t covers several pages of foolscap,
closely written. He starts out by saying
that the confession is made in order TO save
innocent persons and to curtail the inquest
and save further expense to the county.
For himself, he says, he has no excuse or
apology to offer. He then exenerates
Mrs. Malloy and Cora Lee from all coln-
plieity in or knowledge of the crime. He
says he told them that he had never been re-
married to his first wife after she obtained
divorce from him, and that they had
implicit confidence in him and believed that
there was no impeachment to the marriage.
His first wife wrote to him from Fort
Wayne, saying that she knew of his second
marriage, and was coming to Springfield He
| wrote in reply denying it, and trying to per-
suade her not TO come She would not listen
TO him, however, and started for this place
| He met her in st. Louis, and again used
every endeavor to have her leave him, but to
no purpose, and she came on TO Springfield
with him and the children. At the depot
| here he again tried to induce her to go TO
Ramsay City, but TO no purpose. Finally
| thew left the children at restau-
| rant and started to walk TO the farm, five
miles distant, arriving there sbo9t l2;l0 in
the morning. At the farm gate Graham en-
| treated his wife not to ruin him by going to
| the house, bot she said she would go there
| and clean things out. He says he was whit
| thing stick with penknife, and she had a
limb in her hand. Angry words passed, and
\ she struck him with the limb. He threw UP
| his hand TO ward of the blow, and the knife
| struck her in the neck.
| She screamed that he had killed her, and
| he then caught hold of her and threw her
violently from him. Stepping over her
and says he knew then it was all
| over with him, so he showed the knife
into the wound the full length and
| finished her. He then undressed the body
| and carried it to the we'll, where be
threw it in and dropped the clothing in
| after il. He says no one but himself had
| any knowledge Of the deed, and speaks in
endearing terms of Cora Lee, his second
wife. To her he leaves the care of his two
children. His past life, he says, has been
blank, and his future but leap in the
| dark. Intense excitement prevails, and it il
thought Graham will be lynched.
The Coroner's Inquest was resumed to-day
| After several Witnesses were examined the
jury returned a verdict that Sarah Graham
came TO her death at the hands OF George
Graham. by means of pistol shot wound IN
the right side, and by other unknown means
and that Emma MailOy and Cora Lee were
accessories thereto, etc. The Herald will
! print a statement from Mrs. Malloy, very
lengthy and Feplete with Scripture. Il
bears hard on Graham, and protests the in.
nocence of herself and Cora Ice. The ex
element is running high tonight.