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SORDID DETAILS OF KILLING GIVEN AT MURDER TRIALssion of Wife ofSlain Man to Part inSlaying Was ReadBy Tit* Associated Ftess.DURANT, Okla., April 17—The confession of Mr*. Ha Hughes, farm woman, to participation in theslaying of her husband, WillHughes, read today in her murder| trial In district court here, contained a statement that officer* had ! told her they might help her If she would confess.In a later stenographic report,I however, the officers told Mrs. j Hughes she was making her statement without hope of reward.The confession related sordid details of a romance between Mrs. Hughes and A, J. Eastep, a neighboring farmer who Is serving a life sentence In the state penitentiary for the actual killing of | Hughes, and of the slaying.I Eastep, who also is charged with! 1 poisoning his wife, Sarah, began planning to kill Hughes immediately after his wife’s death, the confession said.Eastep told Mrs, Hughes on the night her husband wras slain, herconfession related, that if she1didn’t go through with her part, he| would kill her. Hughes was beatento death.*T heard several blows after 1 sent Willie {her husbandl to the barn/' the statement said, “and heard him groan. 1 didn't go to Willie after he was struck down, hut went to mother’s as Eastep told and told her horses had kick I ed Willie, who was dying/’ IJ. A. Shirley, Bryan county at Itorney, said from the witness stand,|that Eastep will not be a witness in .Mrs. Hughes’ trial, and that he!will be tried for the murder ofh is wJ, K. Matlock, vice-president ofthe Duncan Life Insurance Company told of insuring Mrs. Eastep’alife for fl.bOO about a month be-fore her death. He also insured1 Will Hughes for $2CK a month be fore his death. The insurance man said he solicited the business and paid both policies after the deaths.
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Sedalia Capital
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Fri, Apr 18, 1930
Page 10
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