, 1866-07-17

you say DelOre-aDOuL elgnt uays DeIOre
the murder.
Probst-Yes, eight or ten days before /
had thought of that, of numbering him
and the whole family. My first plan was
to kill him and get the money I could
not get the money in any other way. 1
thought ofkllling them in the house, as
they came down in the morning. I got
the axe sometimes ready for them when
they came down, in the evenings some
times. / did not do it then; I never
could do it. I got sometimes a good
chance, but my heart failed it. Deering
was at home always in the evening.
That morning was dark, raining and
cold, and Deering went to the city then
I made up my mind to do it that day !; |
calculated to kill D%eering as he came
home; / did not know whether the mo-
ney was in the house or not | did not
know whether he had it.
Me and the boy were working out on
the bank went to work that morning
about y or s o'clock, [ guess; Mr.. Deer
ing went up to the city before we went
out; he said he would be back about 1
o'clock j; we went to work in the meadow
about one hundred yards from the hay
0UdCh 3 VIC UOOA liz IOJSC ulu q 0lIA
went to work together; L took with me
to kill him the axe, the big axe for cut
ting roots out also.
We were standing under the big tree
when [ killed him it was raining a lit
tie; he sat down under the tree; and |
stood above him, behind him with the
axe in my hand he sat there and talked
of something about work while | stood
right behind him; | was going to kill
him, and drew my hand back three or
four times; | hit him on the left side of
the head; he did not holler he fell
down; l gave him one or two more blows,
and then cut his throat, he bled much
(the prisoner stopped, looked down on
the rosary, and ran his fingers over the
small beads of the rosary on the tree;
l lifted him up, and put him on 10 the
cart !; he had the strap every time round
him, to keep his coat up; that was all in
full view of Mr.. Wiles' house !; I was not
afraid of them seeing me; 1 looked first
then / drove the horse up, and lifted him,
and laid him in the haystack, and covered
him up with hay there was a little blood
on the cart; [ took a little hay and
wiped it off, I took some outside hay
and threw it over him.
Then [ went, took the axe with me,
to the house and also took the horse
with me /; this was about after 10 o'clock
in the morning. | came to the house
with the horse and cart, and had q little
wood on the cart, and put the wood down
in the yard I left the horse and cart
standing at the machine house; did not
unhitch the horse ; [ went into The sta
BILE and laid the two axes and the nam
mer in the corner, right on the left cor
ner, near the narrow door that faces the
ditch; well then I would go over in the
house and had a little blood on my pants;
I took hay and took it off; then / went
over in the house and the children were
all in the house, and the woman was out
at the ditch for water.
[ took the oldest boy, John is his
name, and told him to go over in the
stable and help me with something l had
to do; he goes I stood inside the door,
got my axe in my hand, the little axe,
and then he comes right on the corner f;
I knocked him down and he fell inside,
where the little blood was /; he did not
boiler | gave him one or two of the
Same. and cuf and honna his throat: