The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-23
BR|MM|NCsTAll IN
CONFESSION SAYS
He KILLED SIX
DowAoIAc OGRE OF MRS. GUN
NESS TYPE SUSPECTED OF HAv.
ING MURDERED TEN OTHERS
wlFE's STATEMENT.

This victims number at least IS.
Brimmingstalls wife, ON whose &C
cusation he was arrested. says she
saw him Kill one man-David HUFF
smothering him with pillows az he lay
In bed. Her husband then told her
not to tell. she declares. She says she
still loves her husband and that her
motive In Informing upon him IL her
sense OF religious duty. She threw
herself and her children upon the pro-
lection OF the authorities. al she was
afraid he would kill them all.
This IL list Of the persons Brim-
mingstall has confessed to having
killed
Two brothers named o'BrIsn, In ArI.
IONA.
A man named johnson, In Arizona.
An unidentified man, shot from
horse, In Arizona.
A Missouri Southern railroad con.
ductor, In Missouri.
An unidentified man, In Missouri.
Additional list. suspected TO have
been Brimminetall's victims:
David Hun, In powaglao.
Smith Hotrum, In Dowaoiao.
First wife and one child.
Second wife and three children.
Daniel Hsaeton, near powaSIac.
Unidentified man, body found on
railroad track, near Dowaolao.
Brimmingstall denies having killed
any Of those mentioned In the last
list.
Wlfe's Sworn Statement.
Following Is the sworn statement Of
Mrs. Brimmingstall:
4 bauf minutes ffar on tha
morning Of June IS. 1907. was
Awakened by the sounds OF a scuffe.
a a ! got up and looked into Ms.
Jim, on top OF the bed, and he was
holding pillows over Huns head.
heard the old man say Stop. Quit
Jim came out OF the room and l
looked in there and saw the old
man lying on the bed looking as
rs he dead?" and Jim said. Yes.
about IL" Jim called in the neigh
ssas the sn old AM man h ap a lea ! That
same night he dressed him up for
the casket SO that when the under
| to be put in the casket. Jim has
threatened to KIN me II ! ever said
anything ga about ni IT. Ivan want you to
After Huff's death. Brimmingstall
told neighbors that the old man had
been killed by a fall. At the jail in
Cassopolis, where Brimmingstall now
Is, the prisoner said HUI lad died
while trying to take his shirt off,
Brimmingstall Is said to have quar-
relied with HUFF the day before the
tragedy.
Hotrum's body was found In the
river here, two months ago. Brim-
| ,tpex ufo frlA H. 81
had stubbed his toe and failed of the
tanned no water and the mark OF
blunt instrument was on the head.
Brimmingstalls frst wife was
sQuaw The woman and her child
were found murdered one morning.
Brimmingstall denies that he killed
them.
BY his second wife he had three chill.
dren. The family resided In Missouri.
One day the wife and three children
died suddenly. Brimmingstall says
that they were killed by drinking
alkali water. He denies that he killed
them.
The police are investigating the
death OF an unidentified man who was
found on the railroad tracks, near
Brimmingstalls house.
IL was TO the prosecuting attorney
that Brimmingstall confessed to six
murders committed In the west for at
least one Of which he has served In
prison and another OF which, IL was
said here late last night, he had been
tried. but acquitted. He said that
when he was IL years old he shot two
brothers named O'Brien. When he
was 19 years old he said he shot
man of a horse. but never learned
who II was he killed.
Brimmingstall told the prosecutor
that when he was 20 years old, he
killed conductor on Missouri
Southern railroad train. hitting him
with coupling pin. In 1889 Brim-
mingstall said-he- killed man In
a free-for-all fight in Arizona. The
prisoner also admitted that in 1900 he
shot into a crowd In a town in Mis-
souri, and killed man. He said that
there was no reason for his firing.
The Kansas prison at Lansing, Ks.
! has the record OF a prisoner named
John Grimbstone, alias Grimstall, who
came TO the prison for ten years
term for murder. September Z, 1889.
He had been convicted In a United
States court outside the state and was
consequently federal prisoner. In
| February, 1895, with time to serve, the
prisoner was taken from Lansing to
the federal prison and was released
| from there at the expiration of his
/ TENN.
. May Have Killed Hermit.
Sheriff Tenant, OF Benton Harbor.
has taken up the investigation OF the
death OF Daniel Heaston. an. aged her
NIT, who on January %. 1907, was
found dead In his shack at Mud Lake
between Dowagiac and Euclaire.
Acting on the theory OF the Dowa.
giac officers that Heaston was killed
by James Brimmingstall the author