The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-08-14
Out 81 Work and Needed Money
Because He Was To Dc Mar
rled Soon,
DEED WAS BLOOD cuRpLINo
Dead Man Was Hls Friend
and Never Suspected His
Trsaehery.
Detectives Arrest the Grim
Inal nj the Residence OF
His 6Weetheart

COLUMBUS, o., Avg, l~D,--GhMrles II,
II, Veprell, 4 former empIoye OF the
Adams Nkppess company, WINS arrested
during tho afternoon In this city md
hAs confessed No the killing OF Measen
nor Lane and tho robbery III the why
safe Oh tha Adams lesppesa company on
Tho Pennsylvania e@ast'bonnd train
which arrived In thls city nj mIdnlght
Friday, Ono thousand dollups 0f Vie
money which had been stolen WIS 70.
covered, 5..
Verpell WINS 10 haye baen married
Thursday next 10 Miss ldllinn Gostel0w,
the beautiful young daughter Of Patrick
Gostelow, M engineer on the pennsyl.
yania lines, lilo Ind bean discharged
from Tho employ OF lhe Adams lsxppeaS
company ahOnt three months ARo and
had not since boen able 10 secure en-.
plDymenh lilo confessed THAI lha mo.
live OF the robbery WIS W secure money
Of which no falt In great naad on No.
count OF his approaching marriage,
prpmsdltAiad Crime
The confession Of Farrell disclosed Il
ppamedltAted md blood onpdIinR crime,
He Anld thnt ha had become desperate
baeauHe 0r his inability 70 secure en-.
ployment md n realization 0f the faet
that no must have money To defrny The
expenses 0f hiA approaching marriage,
THE robbery Ind baen carefully PINNED
md 10 included tho murder VI lekppess
Messenger Lime He had Doaooomplteas
and no o@onnlNuts, tn knew LAna well,
Tn fAot they ware friends, md ha paliod
npon bano'a confidence w help execute
th9 crime, Having provided himself
with n Smith NJ Wess0n #lK'ahoOter, VII
enlIbpN, he went 10 UpbDDa Friday
morning and vailed for Me-, w. When
tho train arrived there Vorpnll went M
0noe 10 tho express Gnr md Told Lane
that he WIN ont III money md asked
permission 10 ride 10 Columbus With
him, Lame consented, never for u mo.
ment snspeatirR the
Traaehapv ~ Hia ppataDdsl Fplend,
If0p short time nftep tho train left Wv.
bAnR they ohAtted pleasantly, hhne
mt In n chair In TIN end 0f tho orr with
his baok slightly turned, After \ few
mOmpHta Vepvell drew hin revolver and
stepped up bahind bano nnObsepyed
md fired thpee shots In rapid sleoes,
sion Into Tho messengap's bAok, Lane
rolled OH tha chair Oh tho floor on blu
fANe and FARRELL quickly fred the ve'
naming shots MI The prostpate body,
Lane Was unconscious, but FARRELL, IN
make sure, took Lanes revolver and
fred TWO mora bullets Into Tho body,
FARRELL then took the hey w ile why
sAfe from Tho pocket 0f the dend llep,
sangap md opened tho snf0 md Followed
N MI its contents which In placed In "
small satehel and Watted until flle 0OP
arrived nv Plain GIty, when nv
slipped DW tha Train
lie went IN n hotel where hs Hooupod u
room and retired fop the night ITO M.
0vetAd his revolver under th6 mnttreas
0f tho bod, and aftap viflng tho express
packages Nod them up In u bundle and
shipped them w n halnOus address,
Tbe detectives obtained " Glne NJ
Plain City, found the revolver where "
had baeD aaoretad md Intercepted th9
express package by telegraph sab'
piGIon pasted Oh Fevrell md inf0pmn,
ZION regarding bis movements l9d w his
arvasE H0 WIS %nppvehend0d at tho
homo of hiA sweetheart, and on Tim
way M tha station admitted the crime,
keavly NIL Tho money STOLEN WIS pe'
covered from tho yolnK lady w whom
he lind given " fW s~afokeapinH,
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