The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-18
TERRIBLE CONFESSIONS
Innocent Girls CO0lly Butchered
and Cut to Pieces.
Infamy, Hypocrisy an(
Theft Unveiled.
Cant and Deceit on the Verge Of
Death.

CONCORD. N. H., Feb. II, 1874.
At precisely seven minutes past eleven O'Clock
this forenoon Franklin b. Evans, confessediy the
perpetrator OF more than one murder, and espe-
caly the slayer Of one innocent child, suffered the
extreme penalty OF the law within the enclosure
of the New Hampshire State Prison.
TERRIBLE CoNFEssION-MURDER NO. ONE.
Evans made the following confession before
death -
gsn n Evans Of for
ba9 The Maker and Judge and
90 as e @ + os
and all say affirm as dying man Is strictly true As
Day and i
~so & ana af Ser augsr M
am brother Of MRS Pay and was occasionally with the
hood was much 70
WIFE
eIs occur some indecent reea and alleged threats of
a'n
ass S OBJECTION t. s %n ed s %ss az work
On This Gsorgana came suddenly into the and de-
@
fore death r thought q putting Y her out the
TosS SssS
DECD length became assd my mind u % taHs
ss5 s orgy s':s OK f1Ss xs ss$
and on The morning Of the fatal day left Mr Days,
e., " Is
her Of
eral valuable presents had gwen her and trying to
8 syai Sc psSs5ssnty S.iussd ksewns WAS WAS
a By the she pu Sr
wards the sTSSmP and when within
gain knowledge system thar
% Of to me doctor NV fears Of her putting her
that
beyond aasSSsr!ptSn would have worlds had
imagine the in my mind before s9@
r. .d Ia y,
ana ss ans S eS y
don I, al fnn 81. hope for and can only leok this
srss!Iy relsysd my shst have a last iay
tins wicked and much resTe. That have
xuaDsa NO. rwo-rHE MILLS oH1Lp
Lowering l have after great conflict IN my mind de-
T. sdsa
s
window and got found several children
Sns door sss 'sas
the body found and s :pns
q feeling Of remorse and terror that seized de-
ct 4oe ana h sy Ss
body under and replaced the stump then wandered
was near the Junction u BROOKS searched for tia
many in the woods hunting and gathering chesnuts,
ssSss ii; E:ss Ssss!,i
roots, and took them with me in bunle p9rng this
e found then went to the house of James Evans 4
man my lie has been Of crime and hedness.
the s9 n ny y Ss
aa nave s be M and s Se t. others ms
memory tina; would not haze panied my relatives but
s ,S. msTsy q
rS @ sss
issssd iii the SnS~sdss have q any %srdei or Tie
place: which have been sqspssted am entrsy
Kent the umsr 81 Of IN xaS% al
Peavy who sent me to London to get girl to live with
ana @ efy and .Sa
% s ncme Mt hs d @
some sio few days the watch was missing ns
nsay With A'f M 70 ssvy and and
M III. CHARGED BY thu s and on
young woman named susan Reader, saving she had
ana NAV thrown into sSgs ss
he Was 1 aSwn he
partly isp aen n AND sSddHs
s1s S al a s Ssd ns o he sa.s
and confess o to my shame, ihat was the
me ff.Yy is
Mace and stole the d it in hole in ed and
% in sold iSI the chain IN Dover am
ssd .ss
dead her friends may be glad to her innocence;
who Pretend detect criminals and RersDy
bring disgrace anu '0r11M upon so innocent persons
a. wor aa s s %e wns
watch from the tavern OF Mr.. Morrill, in Norhwood,
pErRSgDiso AN INSURANCE COMPANY
Hartford 81 taking 9us policy Tor sis and gong 70
fai
IN GvHSs
STATEMENT OF THE CHAPLAIN AND WARDEN.
The above confessions OF Franklin H. made
TO with the wish and understanding that they should
be made public after his death. They written out
and carefully revised sentence and pied
by him as in every particular correct There Is In them
general agreement with the tact resting independ
emf testmony he had been suspected other
murders we endeavored with much and persuasion
to some comic ssiOns concerning tem but he has
uniformly denied any knowledge Of them
As 70 the truthfulness OF his confessions to the
character depth OF his penence do presume
Judge For the last few weeks OF his lite he evidently
had much rcmorse, and his seemed be
siderabiy awakened. The rest Is known only by his
Judge '' Whose f III ps'' Warden
ELEAZER SMITH, Chaplain.
DID HE TELL ALLY
This confession Is looked upon as somewhat
"thin" BY those who are best acquainted with
Evans life and history. It was penned by the
chaplain OF the prison and given to the old man
for signature ana while he took little cOgnizance
Of the contents Vie sign manual was appended.
1t Is known that the murder OF the Joyce children,