The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-26
AFTER TEN DAYS IN JAIL HE
MAKES CONFESSION
IMPLIcATING TWO MEN
William Lockridge and Another of
His Friends Planning Job at
Starbuck Home.

Newcastle, Ind, July 26.-Left
alone with his conscience for ten days
in solitary cell in the Henry county
Jail Haley Gipe has as last weakened
and confessed guilty knowledge OF
the murder Of Mrs. William Starbuck
and her little baby at Greensboro on
Saturday night, July 8, duplicating
two other Greensboro men.
Gipe stoutly denies that he took any
part in the murder but says that Will
liam Lockridge and another man,
whose name he refuses to dlvulge,
approached him with a proposition
to rob the Starbuck home on the night
the tragedy occurred.
Taking advantage of the depress
ed condition Of Gipe after his long
isloation from the other prisoners and
the outside world Sheriff Christopher,
Detective Curry and Prosecuting At
torney Ed Jackson put the accused
man through a most rigid sweatbox
process and their efforts were finally
rewarded by partial confession from
Gipe of his knowledge of the crime.
He reluctantly stated that on Fri
day evening, July s, the night pre-
ceding the murder Of Mrs. Starbuck
and baby, William Lockridge and an
other friend came to him and said
that they were planning to turn a
job at the Starbuck home the next
mig ght and urged him to accompany
them.
He admitted that they knew Will
liam Starbuck had sold some hogs a
few days before and that he had the
money in the house. They had seen
him receive several hundred dollars
and considered it an easy matter to
get hold Of the money during Star
bucks absence from home.
Gipe told the officers that it was
customary for Starbuck to take his
oldest daughter to the home of his
parents every Saturday night that
she might attend Sunday school with
them the next morning. He said that
the two men who approached him
with the proposition to rob the Star.
buck home explained that Mrs. Star
buck would be alone with the baby ir
the early part of the evening and thai
it would be an opportune time tt
make their attempt.
1t was the plan, according tt
Gipe's story to the officers, to frighter
Mrs Starbuck into silence and ther
compel her to reveal the hiding place
of the money. There was nothing
said about killing her or of disposins
of the body. Gipe says it was not thu
intention to commit murder. Th
money is all that was wanted ant
the robbers thought they would have
no trouble in getting it during the in
terval of Starbuck's s absence.
Gipe declared that he refused t.
become party to the robbery, bu
agreed not to reveal the plot. H
states that on the night the crime wa
to be committed he went to bed earl
and does not know what transpire
except from hearsay. He says it
possible that the men who wante
hi INTO accompany them in the rob
berry made an attempt to enter tn
house and were threatened by Mr..
Starbuck with exposure, and tha
finally in their effort to escape dc
lection they threw her in the we
with her infant and left her for deat
Though pressed by the officers fo
the name Of the other man implicate
Gipe steadfastly refused to reves
the identity of the third party to th
transaction.
The officers are suspicious of an oil
resident of Greensboro and they wi
at once start to work on the new clev
The lead is entirely foreign to any ye
followed by the authorities and the
are hopeful of finding evidence to sui
stantiate at least part of the STATE
ment made by Gipe They claim I
have evidence that Gipe was not {
home. .>f
Despite Gipe's positive statemer
that he declined to take part in Il