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Milwaukee, Nov. 1.- A special to The Wt5onsln f rom Merrill, Wis., says: Wholesale murdcr and express robbery was tho motive that inspired the recent train wrecking on tho "Soo" road. Two men charged vvith the murder of the man who lost his lifo by their work havo been given a proliinlnary hearing here and held ;o trial. One of the prisoners has confessed, and his story details the methods jursued to derail the through Minneapo:is-Boston limited near Heafford Junction on the night of Oct. 7. In the crash Fileman Charles Cottrill was instantly killed and Engineer James Dutch seriously injured. The plan was to cause a wreek that would kill every person on the train and then rob the safe in the express car, as it was supposed the safe containod a large sum of money. Two of Thelr Foul Crimes. The man who confessed is Levitt Hazelton, about 30 years old. He claims to be a resident of Brainard, Minu. His companion is Frank Williams, a short, thick3et man who claims to have relatives and friends at Appleton, Wis. Williams stoutly maintains that he knows nothing of the wrecking. The offleers traced these men from Minneapolis to this city. On Sept. 30 they sawed a bridge near that place, bvit owing to tho short time in which they had to do the work it was not complete and the train passed over safely. The following week'a time was spent between Prentice and Rhinelander. On Oct. 7 they sawed the piles and stringers of the high bridge noar Heafford Junction, and the westbound passenger train went crashiiig down a twenty-foot embankment. The train was running slow, 80 the wreek was not as complete as the wreekers ezpeoted. The baggage, smoking and day coaches and two sleepers were not wrecked and none of the passengers were hurt. Cared Nothing for Human Ufe. Oct. 11 the two were captured and found to be armod. They were sent to jail for thirty days for carrying concealed weapons, and the detectives notifiod. The result was a charge of murder for the death of Cottrill. They pleaded not guilty, and it was not until Friday last that Hazelton expressed a willingness to confess. His words were taken down by a notary and acknowledged under oath. He said in part: '■ About dark we set to work with the purpose of wreoking a passenger train, so that we could rob the expross car. We expected the wreek would be much worse than it was. We expected that the cars would be all thrown from the track, smashed up, and the passengors and train crew all killed, so that we would have no one to prevent us from accomplishing our purposo. We thought mostly of the money we would get and not of the loss of life. We began work west of the centre of tho bridge. We cut all the stringers across the bridge and two sets of them at the ends, and then sawed the piles or posts upon which they rested. We also cut a braco. Made a Snre Thing Xevt Time. '■After a train passed over we sawed the outside post and the other brace, took the bolts out of the fish plates, pulled the spikes next to the flsh plates and removed the bolts from the flsh plates at each end of the rail. We waited at the east end of the bridge until the west bound passenger train came and broke through the bridge. We were on the south side of the track at the east end of the bridge when the crash came. Then we walked westward to the point where the wreek was. We heard some one crying, 'Are you hurt?' The other man answered, 'A little.' Then we heard some one crying out again. We lid not want to hear more. A man was coming toward us and that scared me. We walked away."