The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-16
OFFERED $4,000 TO CONFESS.
King Says He Was Also Assured He
Would Not Be Locked Up Long.

I WOull NOL De Up Lung.
Buffalo, " Y, Aug. l6.-District At
torney Knickerbocker last night made
public the complete statement of Ed
win King in which before a committe,
/ OF five Orleans citizens, he repudiatec
/ his Little Valley confession, accusing
I himself and Clarence O'Connell OF the
murder OF Charles B. Phelps and Miss
Margaret Wolcott and generating
Charles f. Stielow who is sentenced &c
death for the crime.
In this statement, King alleges that
he was induced to make his confession
by promises made by Mrs. Grace HUI
Winston of New York and Detective
Thomas O'Grady of Buffalo. He alleges
that Mrs. Huminston promised him SO,
600 OF fund of $4,000 right away and
further offered him, he says written as
surances from Governor Whitman that
he would mot be locked up great
while"
''All that | told her (meanng Mrs. HUI
minston)," King said, SIS just what 1
read in the paper. And that is all /
know about it,"
Didn't you appreciate that you were
confessing to the crime of murder, King
is asked in the statement by Thomas A
Kirby of the citizens committee.
King replied: "Yes, sir, but through
the promises they were making me up
there, ! did not think there would be
anything to it. If | could get as much
money as they were talking about, |
thought | would be willing to be locked
up little while"
In the statement King traces all his
from the day a man told
him of the murder until he was arrested
in saloon at Pavilion. He mentions
having been called as witness for
O'Connell during that mans trial in Lit
tie Valley for the shooting of Ran
dolph storekeeper.
King then states the woman lawyer
told him there was $4,000 raised to save
Stielow and that he would get $4,000 of
it if he would confess the crime. He
alleges she told him she had it fixed
with the governor that he would not be
ocked up long.
And them" Kings statement reads, |
all | told is just what ! read in the
upper udb IL all NHuN aoout lt' 4
old her that me and O'Connell done 1t |
out ! followed it from what | read in the |
papers"
Mrs. Grace Huminston is now IN |
Rochester seeking Judge from whom to
ret warrant charging King with muir
Ter and also an order removing him from
orleans county to Little Valley, Chat
araugus county. She has declared she
kinks District Attorney knickerbocker
The morning after Kings
when some inkling of the
tatement leaked out, she vehemently de-
led that she had offered King money
o confess the crime.
Detective O'Grady, King says, took
i'm to Batavia from Pavilion. thence
0 Buffalo, where he was locked up for
day and night, and the next morning
riven in an automobile to Little Val
" with Mrs Grace Huministon, who
as been leading the fight to save Site
Nv from the electric chair.
when we got out of the city" Kings
tatement runs on. Mrs. Humnston 8
nd O'Grady began to talk about the :
fellow case and told them | thought
ley had the right man. Mrs Humin I
on said: thought | was going to get I
,me information from YOU told her |
did not see how. At Little Valley aft c
dinner | was alone all afternoon in
le jail hall with Mrs. Huminston and '
he kept talking and talking