The text of the confession signed by Dr. James Snook:
I met Theora Hix about three years ago. The friendship continued in a very intimate way ever since, inasmuch as she was a very good companion. I have been living with my wife during this three-year period and regard my wife very highly and respect her very much as a wife, but she lacked some of the companionship afforded by Miss Hix.
During the three years that I knew Miss Hix, I did assist her in many ways toward an education but I found out it wasn’t as appreciated as I thought it should be.
Our association was not a love affair in any sense of the word, but in time Miss Hix developed a more determined attitude in regard to dictating my movements and the final culmination of this occurred on the 13th of June of this year when I met Miss Hix at the corner of Twelfth Avenue and High Street in the City of Columbus, Ohio, when we both got into my Ford Coupe and proceeded to drive to Lane Avenue and then west to the Fisher Road and to the Columbus Rifle Range of the New York Central Railroad Co., during which she remonstrated with me against leaving the city with my family for the week-end as I had previously planned to do.
She threatened that if I did go that she would take the life of my wife and baby. During this quarrel she grabbed for the purse in which she sometimes kept a .41-caliber Derringer which I had given her.
In the struggle she was hit on the head with a hammer with the intent to stun her. She continued desperately and an increased number of blows of increasing force was necessary to stop her. Realizing then that her skull was fractured and to relieve her suffering, I severed her jugular with my pocket knife.
I then proceeded to pick up the things that had been scattered during the struggle and hurriedly left the scene of the struggle, leaving her body at that point. The instrument which I used to quiet her was a hammer which was laying on the back seat of the Ford.
After leaving the rifle range I then proceeded to go home, tossing the purse from the Quarry Bridge into the Scioto River on my way. After the struggle I discovered the gun was not in the purse.
Question: Now, Doctor, I want to ask you just a couple of questions. Are you making this statement voluntarily?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Q: Nobody threatened you or promised you anything for the making of this statement, have they?
A: No, sir.
Q: And everything that you have said in this statement is the truth, is it?
A: Yes, sir.
[Signed J.H. Snook.]