Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-09-20
CONFESSION

Inc COHIeSSlOu mdue ny rev. Lyn
G. j. Kelly at Logan to state and
officers. admitting the Willis
ca AK murders is as follows:
Il, Lyn George j.. Kelly, being
first duly sworn on oath, depose and
say that l make the following affi-
davit and confession without any
promise or threats having been made
to me of any kind whatever and that
this is voluntary statement:
THAT l came to Villisca, Ia, the
night before the murder of the Moore
Lou Emerson met me at the de-
pot and l went to his home for sup
per. l was taken out from there
to Henry Emerson's by Lou Emerson,
where stayed over night, and I re-
turned to Villisca at $3.50 O'Clock
evening, coming directly to
Rev. Mr.. Erwing's home, where I
took supper and afterwards went
with him to church.
after church returned home
with Rev. Erwing and his wife and
stayed up and visited with him un-
til IL or 1880 o'clock, when he
showed me to my room, and asked
me If would mind sleeping alone.
as they were going TO sleep in the
tent, I-said, No, as l was intend
ing to go to sleep at once. -'
81 undressed and went to bed, but
was restless. being over tired,
heard a noise outside like wind
mill and opened the door on the bal
cony; stood outside on the balcony to
see what the noise was, but found
Then came back and shut
the door and tried to sleep, but could
not. My head was hot. I began to
feel sick and wanted to get walk.
so l dressed and went outside.
81 went downstairs to the front
door and left the house by the front
door. walked across to the Pres
byterian church. l did not intend
to go any further, but my mind was
on sermon on a text called
Stay Utterly, as / had been hearing
and reading sermons on that text,
and a voice said, Go on and l went
on because was in the grip of some
thing that l did not understand
81 felt that God wanted me to
'slay utterly and l did not know
where / was going or where l was.
l got down near the end of the street
and saw a shadow on the side of the
house, going from the back to the
front, and God told me to follow
that shadow. walked on a little bit
further. still thinking about my SER
mon and wanted to know where that
shadow began. / went hunting the
shadow to the back of the house, 1
did not know who lived there, but I
kept hearing that voice, Stay utterly.
81 said, Yes, Lord; I will I was
walking in the darkness around the
house, trying to find that shadow,
and accidently saw an AK. l picked
it up and went to where the shadow
went, for God wanted me to follow
that shadow, I went around toward
the front door. A voice says, GO in,
Do as tell you; Stay utterly
81 saw no light. but I had to do
as God told me and l dared not turn
me OIL did not know who. did
not know where I was. went right
ahead because I heard that voice and
as soon as I got in the house some
one whispered, Come up higher out
of the night and l went up flight
of stairs. because thought I was
going up Jacobs ladder.
81 walked through the middle
room into the further room. don't
know what I went there for, only ]
was driven by an impulse and a
voice. I saw some children lying
there. The Bible says. Suffer little
children to come unto me- and l said
They are coming. Lord
Before I knew what I was doing
I started sending those children
l did not know, and
had to do as God told me and STAY
utterly. And so to obey God, used
the ak and did not realize where l
was hitting them, only was trying
to do what God wanted me to do.
"After killing the children. went
into the room where the parents
were. and don't remember which
of them I struck first. as my head
was all wrong. and kept on hearing
voices, I Stayed utterly. by using the
ak, led by this impulse that I did
not seem able to control.
81 then went downstairs and want
ed to lay down and rest, and saw a
room and went in, not knowing who
was there, but found two children
in bed. and God said. More work
yet Before knew what was do
ing, I continued my sacrifices. by
killing these two children with the
ak. as I had to offer blood sacrifices.
ITO the best of my memory. left
the ak in the house. and returned
to the Erwing home. and went back
to bed and got up in the morning
and caught the 5:19 train for Mace
donia. arriving home about 1880.