CONFESSION OF A. D. GALBRAITH Bodies of Murdered Wife and Child Found in a Lonely Cabin In Russell Gulch. Denver, April 10. —Azel D. Galbraith, who was arrested Friday for forgery, was discovered last night to have murdered his wife and nine-year-old son, Donald, on or about last March 9th, and to have left their bodies in the lonely cabin at Russell Gulch, where the murder was committed. With the announcement of Galbraith’s arrest, friends living in Russell Gulch instituted a search and discovered the bodies in bed, where they had lain a month. Galbraith had removed all suspicion by stating that his family had gone to Boston.

Galbraith made a complete confession of the murder to Chief of Police Armstrong and Detective Captain Connor last night. Smoking a cigarette and some times smiling, he related the awful details without a tremor.

The only thing about which the police are undecided is Galbraith’s motive. Galbraith evidently bad intended to take his own life after the murder of bis wife and child, but, as Chief Armstrong told him, he “lacked the nerve.”

It Is thought by the police that the whole motive for Galbraith’s crime lay in his infatuation for Mrs. Lottie Russell of 18 Twenty-second avenue. Ho denies this and claims that his motive was the financial straits into which he had brought himself by gambling, drinking and following women. Mrs. Lottie Russell was arrested last night and after an interview with Chief Armstrong and Captain Connor she was locked up to be held until the arrival of Sheriff Thomas Cody of Oilpin county. She is not thought to havo known anything of the murder.

“Did you kill your wife and boy?” asked Captain Connor of Galbraith.

“I did,” replied Galbraith. “I killed my wife and boy early In the morning. I shot my wife through the head while she was talking to me. We were in bed at the time and she never moved afterward.

‘‘Then I went to the door of the house and called the boy down and coaxed him to get in bed beside me. after I had covered up his mother’s head, and when he turned his head to look out of the window I shot him through the head.

“Then I dressed and got on a quartz wagon. I drank all the whisky In the house before I left. I rode on the quartz wagon to Idaho Springs and stayed there two or three days drinking. I came to Denver March 14th.”

Galbraith’s murder of his wife and child Is regarded as one of the most cold-blooded crimes ever committed. Galbraith admitted that he had been planning the double murder for nearly a month before he committed it. It was reported in Denver last night that indignation was at white heat in Gilpin county and it is thought that If Galbraith is taken back there at any time soon an attempt will be made to lynch him.

Galbraith and his wife had known each other from childhood. They were schoolmates and had always been considered a devoted couple.

He probably will be held in the city jail in Denver for an indefinite time. Both Galbraith and his wife were reared in and around Fort Collins, where they were very well known. Many relatives live there. Sheriff John A. Cross of Fort Collins came to Denver last night as an agent of Galbraith’s sister to see what could be done to have him cleared of the forgery charge.

With the utmost composure Galbraith related the details of his crime. He told how he had shot his wife and son and afterward picked the bullets out of the bedclothing and carried them in his pocket for several days. About April 1st he returned to the cabin, where he took out all the furniture except the bed on which lay the bodies of his wife and boy, and hauled It away to sell it.

It was early In the morning that Galbraith, lying beside his wife, shot her. Their nine-year-old boy. Donald, had dressed and gone out on the side of the hill to play. After killing the mother Galbraith went to the door and called the boy down to him. He covered up the form of his wife and persuaded the child to He down on the bed beside him. Then when the boy turned his head to look out of the window, he shot him, too.

After the murder Galbraith wanted to get away from the scene of his crime and went to Idaho Springs. He remained in Idaho Springs drinking, for three days, and came to Denver on March 14th, going to the Brown Palace hotel. He said last night that he had not drawn a sober breath since killing his wife until he became sober afer his arrest Friday afternoon by Detectives Carberry and Sanders. When he was arrested Galbraith had In his pocket the revolver with which he had killed his wife and boy, but he made no effort to use it.