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What confounded Justice was Mrs. Collins' new affidavit, to the effect that her "confession" was a document prepared for her by one John M. Timmons, a retired merchant, friend of Ben Bess. Timmons paid her $50, she said, for signing the document. She, illiterate, had not read it. She...
After hearing Mrs. Collins, the grand jury sent Ben Bess back to jail "for safekeeping." His friend, Timmons, said that Mrs. Collins was lying again; said he had read the "confession" to Mrs. Collins in the presence of her son.
Alexander Meiklejohn made the above confession last autumn at the opening of the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin, in the presence of the 119 students who had registered. They were not a selected group. They had come voluntarily because they wanted to spend their first two college years...
Let Agent Holt reread TIME'S report of Buchmanism. TIME reported: "Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity, which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis. . . ."
Last month, Ben Bess got out of jail. Governor Richards pardoned him. The pardon was the result of Maude Collins' confession-now that she is 60 and expecting Death soon-that she had sworn falsely about Ben Bess.