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Confession Admitted in Hillmon Case Conspiracy Trial
Testimony and a lengthy confession outline a plot in late 1878 to destroy life insurance policies on John W. Hillmon. John H. Brown admits conspiring with Levi Baldwin to fake Hillmon's death and claim $15,000 to $25,000 in life insurance. The document details trips from Wichita to Medicine Lodge and Sun City with a stranger named Joe Burgess or Barkley, Hillmon’s killings, and efforts to misidentify a body. Multiple witnesses identify Hillmon in Tombstone jail and in Texas and Kansas, supporting the defense and challenging the confession’s veracity.
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Hillmon
John H. Brown
Thomas
Missouri
Platte
Sam
Joan W. Hillmon
H. Hillmon
Levi Baldwin
Douglas County
Kansas
John W. Hillman
Wichita
Medicine Lodge
Barber County
New York Life Insurance Company
Mutual Life of New York
Hfe
John W Hillman
Baldwin
Wichits
Kan
Sun City
Rinsley
Great Bend
Larned
Hutchinson
Hillmen
Lawrence
Cowaskin Creek
Harper City
Medicina Lodge
Medicine River
Elm Creek
Hillman
Hillmon Inuit
Lawrence Hillmon
Baldwine
Berkley
Burgess
Joe
Ft Scott
Wellington
Arkansas City
Joe Hillmen
William Marshull
Kansas City
Samuel Riggs
Joan H. Brown
Francis M. McDoxaro
D. M. Ward
Wyandotte
Kaw
Brown
Smanj
W. J. Buchan
Parkville
Buchan
D. E. Sheldon
D.E. Shelden
Trust Company of America
John W. Hillmon
Charles Hay
Yates
Leadville
Witness
J. J. Jones
Mr. Haggerty
J. E. Mathias
Bisbee
Arizona
Plains
Ohio
Tombstone