The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-27
kelly's Confession as Presented in
Court at Red Oak.

kelly's Confession as Presented in
Court at Red Oak.
State of Iowa, Harrison county,
SIS: !, Lynn George j .Kelly, being first
duly sworn on oath depose and say
that | make the folloseSs affidavit
and confession withol @ any promise
or threats having been made to me
/ of any kind whatever, and thai this
| is voluntary statement.
That went to Villisca, Iowa, the
night before the murder Of the Moore
family.
Lou Emerson met me at the de-
! pot and went to his home for sup.
per. | was taken out from there to
where, | stayed overnight and re-
turned to Villisca at $50 O'Clock
Sunday evening, coming directly to
Rev. Ewing's home, where | took
supper and afterwards went to
| church with him.
He Couldn't Sleep
After church returned home
stayed up and visited with him until
] 1:30 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. ! said no
as | was intending to go to sleep at
but was restless, being over-tired. !!
heard a noise outside like windmill
and opened the door of the balcony,
and stood outside on the balcony to
see what the noise was, but found
nothing.
Then | came back and shut the
door and tried to sleep but could not.
sick and wanted to take a walk SO l
dressed and went outside. l went
downstairs to the front door and LETT
the house by the front door. | walk
ed across 10 the Presbyterian church.
''Slay Utterly
81 did not intend to go any fur
ther but my mind was working on a
sermon on text called, "Slay Utter
ly," AS ! had been hearing and read
ing sermons on that text, and voice
said go on and ! went on because
l was in the grip of something that |
did not understand. l felt God want
ed me to Stay utterly and ala not
was. | 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
sermon, and wanted to know where
that shadow began. ! went hunting
the shadow, the back of the house. !
did not know who lived there, but l
ter1ly.' l said, Yes. Lord, 1 viii.
Picked Up Ak
"While walking around in the
darkness, around the house. trying
saw an ak. ! picked it up and went
to where the shadow went, for God
wanted me to follow that shadow.
went around toward the front door.
A voice says, GO in, 90 as tell you;
Stay utterly" | saw no light but |
had to do as God told me and | dare
not turn back because somebody was
or did not know where | was. !
went right ahead because l heard
that voice, and as soon as got in the
house, someone whispered. Come up
higher, out of the Bible. and | went
up fight OF stairs because | thought
l was going up Jacobs laddef. ;sa,o
room into the further room. don't
know what went there for only |
was driven by an impulse and
voice. saw some children lying
there The Bible says Suffer little
children to come unto me.
Killed the Children
Lord Before l knew what was
doing, l started sending those chill,
dren somewhere, 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. realized where |
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
one of them / struck first, as my
head was all wrong, and | kept on
hearing voices l Stayed utterly by
using the ak, led by this impulse
that / did not seem able to control,
then went down stairs and wanted to
lie down and rest and saw a room
and went in not knowing what was
there, but | found two children in BED
and God said. More work yet.
Blood Sacrifices
"Before / knew what l was dOlnS
I had continued my sacrifice by KILL
ing these two children with this AK,
as ] had to offer blood sacrifices: :.
; s'To the fbest of my memory | lett
the ak in the house and returned 10
the Ewing home and went PACK 70
bed and l got up in the morning ana
caught the 5:19 train for Macedonla'
arrived home about 1850. Sign-
ed Lynn George, j., Kelly. SuDscr1o++
ed and sworn to before me this 3lst
dav of August 1917, about (SiGned)
T.ynn Irwin, clerk of district court.
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