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Painter and Widow Admit Death Plot And SlayingJEFFERSON. WG ’UP* Anitinerant painter confessed today he had killed Earl Gentry, funnerImi ana Ku Ktux Ki m Uuder, at cording to Sheriff Jose Lange.The sh* rtff said Georg* King 35.admitted he shot Gentry $60‘and a million dollars worth ofsatisfaction ” jKings rapture and confession came a few hours after Mrs Car*i if* Gill, 56 -y*■ ai -«rid w idow, clt;n *fessed she had planned Gentry's death because she ‘was deathly afraid of him ** jWill Brings SolutionSolution of the mystery of On-Uy % death came from discovery of a will m which he left his prop rrty to Mrs, t#d 1.Across the face Gentry had written “nulled and voided by Earl Gentry when I was threatened to be killed by Carrie Gill.**Mrs, Gill confessed aft* r four day s questioning- IKnown about Jefferson as ‘ Slim’ King,, the slayer, Lange said, told him his name was Carl B. Church, that he was 36 years old and was boro in Monett, KanGlad lie Did It ‘Tm glad I did it ifhd I d do it again/ Lange quoted Church as saying in his confession “Came Gill was a wonderful woman and treated me elegantly, 1 knew Gentry was mistreating her and I killed him as a good deed for the community *Mrs Gill known m 'the “Sunshinelady was quoted as confessing she plotted ft r six wi *s the slaying of Gentry*, her parat(:jur. rnd paid King $60 to shoo! the former bodyguard t' I) (/ Stephenson, one*time dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux KianDistrict Attorney Dakin directed Justice of the Peace Arthur G Turner to issue a first degree murder warrant at onceHoman t burns Threats B fore making the statement, Mrs Gill t Id Dak n and Sheriff Joseph T L, .see that Gentry terrorised her for two years and *hat the night before flu !«iay.ng, Juno 110. he threat*
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Gallup Independent
Gallup, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jul 05, 1934
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