"The confession is not a written one, but is doubtless much fuller than if it were.

I will take the _Star's_ report.

They are all practically the same, but this one has a few pertinent questions.
I will skip the introduction.
"'I confess,' said Brooks, 'that I killed the old man, but I did not murder him.

I was trying to keep him from killing me.

I had gone into a losing speculation and was in pressing need of money.