Rhode Island American And Gazette

Murderer's confession.—We were informed, on Saturday evening last, that Markley, who has been in the Frederick jail for some time on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the late unparalleled murder in Harbaugh's valley, has made a confession by which two others are implicated as fellow-helpers in the foul deed. It was the act of revenge. They went to the house of Mr Newey, and finding the door bolted, worked a hole through the mortar between the logs, into which one of them thrust his hand and pushed back the bolt. They then entered the house. On finding Mr Newey's bedroom door fastened, they burst it open—Mr Newey at this moment awakened and seized his rifle, when Markley with an axe gave him a blow on the head and split his skull. Mrs Newey, at this instant, screamed aloud, when one of the monsters stopped her by stabbing her in the breast with a butcher's knife. By this time the noise below had alarmed the men who were up stairs, and on attempting to get down the stairway were met with the axe and felled. Having now accomplished their work of destruction, except despatching the little ones, they, to cap the climax of horror, choked those and set fire to all the beds in the house. After which they went to a little village close by, Upon separating there, Markley went to Baltimore and the other two went towards the West.

Gettysburg (Pa.) Star.