The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-11-01
From Thursdays Daily. Oct. %.
CONFESSED THE CRIME.
Jack Robinson Describes How
He Killed johanna Scholl-
man..
Some Of the Incidents Connec.
ted With the Tragedy
Coroner's Jury Yer.
dict.


mann, the German girl whose body
was discovered on last Monday morn
ing at the corner of Seventeenth and
MOniteau streets.
Richard Robinson, the accused ne
gro, who is now in the California Jail,
made statement to Sheriff Smith and
Capt. J. J. Kinney last night, confess
ing that he committed the deed.
Sheriff Smith and Capt. Kinney re-
turned from California this morning
with written statement Of the muir.
der, made by Robinson, and
introduced it as evidence upon the
witness stand at the coroners inquest.
THE CONFESSION.
Robin>on's statement Is a. follows {:
Hannah SchOllman left Mr.. Ste
vens' house about ) o'clock last Sun
dav evening to go to Mr.. Miller's, ON
the corner of Wilker>on street and
Grand avenue. The next time saw
her / met her ut the north side of
Prospect street. near the school house,
about $50 p. III. Sunday, October q,
We walked together from Second
street to Grand avenue, from there to
Broadway, then to Moniteau street,
then direct south to Hunefelt'>, (her
uncle'sl.
We stopped ut the gate and talked.
She auarreled with me about Taylor
Williams. She said she had notion
to cut nv throat. She drew knife
to cut nv throat and | knocked her
down with my fist. She got up on
her feet and She struck ut me with
the knife and | grabbed the knife and
| knocked her down the second time.
She said You of tt, |
am going to kill YOU or have it done"
She got up again and | threw her
down and sat down by her side.
said: Hannah what do you
mean
She said Zone of us As got to die
tonight"
told her To 90 into the house.
That is her uncle's house,
| gave her back the knife on the
south side of the hedge, near the mid
die OF the street. | then >tartedt to 20
home.
She said: IF you will come back
| will behave myself and 90 into the
house. lust want to speak to YOU
one minute"
Iwent back to her again and she
made break at me with the knife.
| grabbed her and said: Hannah
you had better quit. l amt going Ia
! run from YOU any more"
She said: lone of H. has got Il
die. If YOU don't kill me, will kill
you
She got the knife fastened - she
could not get to Use it "n me. ! took
the knife away from her, and said:
Hannah. if one Of Us has got to die
said. II had just a> well be hung for
You aS YOU for me- | then stuck
her in the throat with the knife and
she fell at my feet, but did not say a
word. The blood did not squirt out of
her throat on To me. 1t just >eepe'l
ont.
This took place at the corner of the
hedge, ut about 10 o'clock that night.
After she had fallen stopped down
and said to her. Hannah. She did
not answer. thought | had cut her
windpipe, is she did not answer me-
She lav there about FIVE minutes. and
then | dragged her by catching hold
of her just above her knees and drag
ged her about thirty feet east from
where killed her.
| then threw the knife into the
hedge fence. | then left her living Oh
the ground. and | came home by COM
Ing down Mnnitcau street Ia Broad
way. then to Grand avenue. then Ia
Wilker>on, then 10 Quincy street.
then home tn Mr.. Stevens stable.
| had been down town during the
next day Monday and heard the
people talking, and | thought had
better hide the bundle that Is, the
bundle that had the comb, pocket
book and GOWN belonging to Hannah
in the manure pile in the south side of
Stevens barn. Hannah gave me the
bundle before we left the corner of
Third street and Grand avenue, and
hid il here until came back. when
| got ii and put it in the buggy ! had
out that evening. | took it from the
buggy and hid it in the manure pile.
All the money / had that Sunday
evening and up to the time was ar
rested was $3.50. did not get 81
bill changed, nor did offer 81 bill
to the liveryman To pay for the buggy
and horse.