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Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia
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In Bangor, Maine, on April 29, a letter from Bonanza City, Idaho, revealed a death-bed confession by wood-chopper Markham, admitting to murdering and robbing Ohio sportsman Daniel Morrison near Moosehead Lake 20 years prior, after which he fled to Canada and then west.
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BANGOR, Me., April 29.-Twenty years ago Daniel Morrison, a wealthy sportsman of Ohio, was murdered and robbed near Moosehead lake, and all attempts to hunt down the murderer were unsuccessful. Friday, however, after a lapse of about twenty years, a letter was received from Bonanza City, Idaho, containing a death-bed confession of a man named Markham, who was a wood-chopper by occupation, and who claims that he murdered Morrison for the purpose of robbing him, escaped to Canada, and from there made his way west.
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Near Moosehead Lake
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April 29
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Twenty years ago Daniel Morrison, a wealthy sportsman of Ohio, was murdered and robbed near Moosehead lake. A letter received Friday from Bonanza City, Idaho, contained a death-bed confession from Markham, a wood-chopper, claiming he murdered Morrison to rob him, escaped to Canada, and then went west.