Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-16
.HAvNER AYERS
KELLY CONFESSED
ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS
3 PREACHER TWICE ADMITTED
KILLING.
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ON SEVERAL POINTS
ON SEVERAL POINTS
Kelly. Admits Sending Bloody Shirt to
Laundry-GuiIty Of Stealing Meat
Havner Relates Many Incidents OF
Peculiar Career Of ks''y-otdsrsd
Confined in Harrison County Jail.

Red Oak, May 16.-"Rev. l.. q. J.
Kelly, formerly minister at Macedonia
and later at Carroll, admitted at least
two different times to killing Joe Moore
and his wife. their four children and
the two little Stillinger children on the
night of June 9, 1912" according to
statement by Attorney General Hav-
ner.
zone admission was made to the
jailer and sheriff at Sioux Falls. S. d.,
at the time he was incarcerated there
for sending obscene matter thru the
mail. The other was made later to the
deputy United States marshal there.
The preacher talked necessarily about
the murder, and the officials quizzed
him about it. He admitted doing it,
and said he would like to kill some
of the officials who had been detalning
him.
Had Early Knowledge.
1.-THE crime was discovered about
$3.50 o'clock on the morning Of June
10, 1912. Between $3.50 and o'clock
on this morning Kelly told 'reputa-
BILE witness" in Macedonia the details
of the crime and said that he was
the first person to go into the house
after the murder.
"a few days later he told another
man In Macedonia that the men VINO
committed the ak murder did the work
about o'clock in the morning. and
that while he was at work he heard
some one going along the streets;
that he went out onto the back porch
and listened until the footsteps went
on down the street, then went back
and completed his work.
1.-TWO weeks before the murder Kelly
was caught at the window of the home
Of another man, looking into the room
where the mans wife was in her night
robe putting the children to bed
. 'He told a man in Macedonia that
he heard the TtIfud, thud. thud" of the
AK that crushed the life out oftthe
eight persons from the place where he
was. Two weeks after the murder he
went back toayilllsca to preach at his
little charge outside the town, ana
wrote minister there to, get him the
key to the Moore home, for he wanted
to look over the place.
Wanted Girls TO Pose in, Nude.
Late In y the summer Rev. Kelly
went to Carroll There he advertised
for girls for n class in stenography.
Girls who answered the ads testified
to the grand Jury that he tried to get
them to undfe4s and pose for him In
the nude. While at Carroll he talked
Of the. murder on every occasion. and
told .one sm4nsthat he was fi,aIe cse4d9
Of the viiiisca crime becauae 4 BfH h
bloody shirt he, had sent to ! E6hnc4
Bluffs laundry He said he sent the
shirt all right. but that 1t wasn't blood
that made the stains. 1t was hair toiiic,
and that he had tried to wash 1t out
but couldn't He asked another man
In Carroll II person could be con-
victed Of murder If he was crazy at
the time that he did it. He asked II
insanity was good defense In murder
case. He told another man in Carroll
that the reason he was suspected Of
the Villisca murder was because he did
not sleep in his bed at the Ewing home
where he stayed in Villisca that night.
He explained that he was nervous and
did not go to bed, but got up early and
caught the 1920 o'clock train across to
Hastings to 80 up to Macedonia He
told another man the same thing ex-
cept that he slept on lounge down
stairs and was nervous and caught the
earlier train.
Wrote to Bluffs Girl.
"Rev. Kelly went to Winner S. D.,
from Carroll. Soon after he arrived
there he put an .ad- in the Omaha
World -Herald for girl for stenogra-