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OTHER OF nEllPair Caught in West Held for Alleged Death Plot to GetGcat)ie$21,000 Insurance ,ieamrtmPi- iPENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 15.—(#)!** —Hugh Bowen and John Edging-1 ton, en route east to face trial for' the alleged Insurance boax murder ID of W. R. Kington, near Chicka-' mauga, Ga., tonight were declared!11 by officers here to have each denied, the slaying but to have asserted the other was the killer.Sheriff Charles C. Taylor, ofi Chattanooga, Tenn., who Is retime ' | ing the prisoners for trial, refuted ' i to reveal contents of reputed signed confessions except to say the men each blamed the other tor the crime. ,Pendleton officers saak! Edging-)®' , ton de^fprcd be wae not at tbtjl® r! scene of the crime. He saW h«jPJ gave Bowen, a stranger, a ride west in his automobile. The ride was supposed to hare been proffered after a chance meeting on an Alabama highway.Bowen later told Kddiagton of the Klugtou murder, the stats meat continued, and said ha expected to collect $2A,000 insurance, payable on his* own death. TOe money ups to be delivered through Frank Bowen, Lafayette, Ga., Hugh's brother and the beueftciary of his IInnllilD^ Pan»r« 'innurflntlv titan.mTidslt;diaialPi01* policies. Papers, apparently lden ft ttfying Kington as Bowen, *erej . j said by Sheriff Taylor to have been! j found in the slain man's clothing. The victim’s face had been dls- j figured. * jBddlngton’s statement was reput- o *,ed to have added that Bowen had]^ | planned a similar hoax slaying at Hood River, Ore. Eddington -told he declined an invitation to participate in the crime.Hugh Bowen, officers said, made two statements. In the first he said he had been drinking atfd did not remember details of the crime.The second statement, made after he had been told of Eddington*!JintliInIcaiulconfession, declared Eddington ot•hot Kington with a shotgun after an argument The three men were riding in a stolen automobile and so murder bad been planned, the statement 11 continued. After the killing, the two fled to Alabama, picked np Eddlngton’s ll-yehr-old wife and came to Pendleton. The automobile was abandoned In Alsbems.Boston eaid ho Jrue forced to accompany'Eddington west.swtchbtMWnb.P
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Findlay Morning Republican
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, Feb 16, 1931
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