The San Francisco call., 1904-06-15
Serving a Life Sen
telCe for Crime Of
Another.
Real CulpFit COnfeSSeS Nine
teen Years Alter Murder
Is Committed.
Esn WrongfuIly Punished Believed
Eimsslf Guilty and Is Now q
HOPELESS Maniac.
SPECIAL Disps,eA to II. csn

KANSAS CITY. No, June 14.-wiu-
.an Miles. aged 50 years. appeared al
the police station here to-day and sur
rendered. saying he had killed John
Edwards. q railway brakeman. AZ Dear
Lodge. Mont, nineteen years ago.
Niles said that z nan named Murphy
rad been sentenced 70 life fmprison-
-eur tor the crime and Is now serving
-5re in the Montana Penitentiary.
8Ies. who says he has worked il
various States IN the West as e rail-
read lsborer. wants 70 ease his con-
Science According 70 his story Niles
KILLED Edwards in q quarrel over
money.
Miles says he was born n Brook
lFn. y. z. and believes he stiil has
distant relatives living there. His
father and mother and a brother and
sister have been dead z number OF
years
T have az last done my part by
surre16erinE 70 The lsW." he said. and
I am not going 70 ask for an investi-
Esuo1 q the case II the officers wish
70 prosecute ne. II IS their business.
II they don't 7 an not going back 10
Deer Lodge myself II anyone is 10
blame for the killing Of that brake
man Il is myself and not Murphy"
CONFkSs Is TRUE
BUTTE. Mont. June 1z-Thoras
1rcTesCue and Frank Conley. wsr6ens
NJ the state Prison. tonight expressed
thei- opinion that the confession Of
William Miles Il Kansas City of the
murder n John Edwards, a Montana
railroad brakeman. for which crime
william Murphy IS nov serving a life
sentence. is true The Wardens tell
story II The affair which may prove
that e gray haired man. now hope
less luus-ic within the walls al Deer
Lodge is & victim OF the st-sngest
web for q thrilling chapter of fiction
Sorne tine during the summer Of
1854 On ted r one a the cars of Coles
Circus train. which had pulled into
Garrison. vas found the body Of
brakeman with bUllet-hole IN the
back Not the slightest cleW 70 the
murderer could be found-nothing bur
uruistsks ble evidence Of 4 brutal and
coVsr6ly crime The body OF the mur-
dered brakeman was shipped 70 Salt
Lake city and for some tine the affair
was shrou6ed in mystery.
One day about q year later q man
walked into the police station in Min
respolis AID asked 20 be taken into
custody as the murderer ot z brake
nan = Montana de was locked up
the Montana authorities we're informed
O. the affair. and within few months
the nan was occupying a cell in the
penitentisry. With life sentence hang
lnE over him
MURPHY LOSES HIS REASON.
That man Is William Murphy. alias
VTslthsm. who has already grown old
and has lost his minC within the mar
row limits OF his cell al Deer Lodge.
once. several years ago. he attempted
- escape. but the guard planted q
charge q buckE..ot IL his leg. and
took him hack 20 his punishment. He
Is now = years q age. ana is employed
20 carry water and Go other chores
around the prison
When told another man had con
fessed 70 the crime for which he is
serving = life sentence. Murphy gave
The Can correspondent an empty
stare. and finally broke into q violent
~ Il laughter
The convicts who know him best be
Iiave that Murphy fred a shot 10 scare
the brakeman. and that he had TO
intention of wounding him, out later
believed he had really killed him.