The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-28
CONFESSION OF
 WIFE TO KILLING
 OF HER HUSBAND
Breaks Down and Admits Tram ing Plot With Young Lover
 to Shoot Wealthy Farmer
Nick Wilburn, Who Did the Deed, Had Previously Con- fessed, Putting All Blame on the Woman

Macon, Ga, Dec. 2S.-Relatives and friends of Mrs. James King, widow of one of the-wealthiest farmers in this section of the state, were taking steps, today, to have Mrs. King adjudged in sane in order that she may escape the gallows following her confession that she forced Nicholas Wilburn, a young farmer, to kill her husband. WIburn confessed the crime and insisted that it was instigated by Mrs. klng Who had promised to pay him S2,OOO, the proceeds of the insurance policy, and to marry him. When arrested she denied the crime but under cross examination she, last night, admitted her guilt
 Her confession followed a sensa- tional scene in the jail offices. She refused to admit the truth of the Will burn charges and cried again and again, As God is my judge, l am in- nocent.''
 falling prone on the floor, sobbed out: Yes yes, I did it, I did it. Do you think God will forgive me? Ask the people to have mercy on me, not for myself but for my children
 Later. when partially calmed, Mrs. King made a complete confession which was reduced to writing and
 Last March," she said, Nick VII burn and myself were sitting in my dining room. Nick told me that he
  patted him on the back and told him that I would be his friend
 Had 1t not been for the $2,c00 in- surance we would have never plotted to kill my husband My first attempt was with strychnine, Nick bought the strychnine and we put it in my hus- bands whiskey- When he became sick he took an emetic and recovered.
 Then we plotted to shoot him, Nick told me that he would catch him out hunting and kill him with his The daV the killing Nick came after James had been gone about an hour. l told him my huS- band had gone and that now was our time He left and soon afterward he came back and told me that James was dead I sent Johnny Gordon and Frank Wilburn to find my husband. They came hack and said he had ac- cidentally killed himself.
 This was on Dec. 13, when they found the body but it was the day be- fore that he was killed On Dec. IT, Detective Moore came around and then Nick told me that he was sus- pected of having done the killing. I Iieve he would give me away and af- ter he did I was determined to deny it all and go to the end with a lie on the truth
 Mrs. King is s5 years old and the mother of six children. She had been a leader in church circles in Jones county. sWilburn is considerably her junior Because of threats of a lynching, a heavy guard has been placed about the jail here. The feel ing is intense against both the man and the widow although the members of the woman's family, which is one of the most prominent in this section of Georgia, are standing by her on the ground that she was insane. They say that since the birth of her last baby she has been irrational and that Wflburn worked on her weakened mentality.
 wilburn made a complete confess sion in which he tried to put all the blame on the woman, alleging that she cajoled and tempted him into committing the murder.