A FEARFULSTORY OE CRIME AND EPRAVITY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 49, 16 January 1869, Page 6

A FEARFULSTORY OE CRIME AND EPRAVITY.

George Tensv, alias Wash Stowarfc, of Walker Couw, Texas, has confessed that he murder! on the night of October 13, at Calhouß Ferry, Charles Hall, ferryman, his life, a stranger named Murray, and alttle girl, sister to Mr. Hall's wife, d says : — I firsj; murdered Charles Hall *lo going from the cdwpen tc the ferJ halfway down the bank of the river, vlh a large hickory dticki Ilia wife, attraled by the noise, rau to his aasiatance, nd she met the same fate as her husbail I then dragged both bodies into thJiver* and started up the bank towards le house, and was met. by a stranger, wl asked me if Mr. Hall was at h'oirie, nd if he could get some water. I dref for him the water, and while he was jinking stnidk him on the head with themme stick. I then went into the housiand the little girl asked me where herlster and Mr. Hall were. ' I told her thr were at the ferry, and while she wasloing in that direction, at j the corner of le stable, 1 also struck her j with the samiltick, and she fell dead. I 1 then threw le stick under the house, J returned to \dfere I killed the stranger* ■ threw him inlthe well, carried the little girl over, andjhrew her in also. "I then roled the house of everything worth carryife away— money, tobcidco, bed-clothingjEC. ; then saddled tip Hall's horse, tied oilhe tobacco, bedding, &c., and started litli both Hall's and the stranger's hne for my father' 3, some twelve miles ctant. "Arriving ome, toy mother and her children assi A me in unpacking and carrying into le house the bedding, tobacco, &c. ; i>n staked out both horses, and went to t s house, where mother smd Amy, my sist , cooked supper for me. Then went to cd. Got up on Monday morning, and isisted my father h\ gathering corn. I arried with mo from the ferry Mr. Ha s slut, and on Thursday following my other killed her with an axe. She aO, assisted by my sister Laura, helpe me bury the best clothing and Mr. Hall saddle. I put the money, 32 dollars 44 mts, which I took out nf Mr. Hall's, t: nk, in a clothes box, and mother took from there and buried it. . m Tuesdawvening I left ho.mo about sundown, an/ mother took the money «p from where ie had buried it, and gave to me 1 dolr 50 cents. I was fi^aJJy arrested at Bed Top, while paQlSjLi cotton,." I