The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-14

me then, lie would 90 IL ii IL TOOK MN
twenty years. he said he would c..tch me
going to work q had - pass by his door
through u narrow alley, about 70 feet
wide) or catch me at work = the mil;
that should never work there any
more; then he kept walfrg back
ward and TO. yaid in front of my door;
cursing me pretty much all the time, un..l
about eleven O'Clock Dr~'Hg al -''s tine
| never spoke to him. After he left and
went to his house, Is We spoke to him
and urged him to got Bed and he said he
would not but would stay up and watch
the remainder of III. night went TO bed
about one o'clock, ond got up = thc morn
inc and went out to wash, He said,
Damn you MI see you when you come
down 10 work." went doNA - work
about six o'clock, and | thought would
go and see him, and find out what he was
GOING TO do aboutit0sI was afraid hemigkt
slip up on me. went 10 where he was at
work on hepla.orm end asked m he
was going to do what he had said he
would the night before; il he was going 70
| Kill me or not. He had some of the same
sort of t'mber (already mcn,,oned)-about
five sticks-'l his hands and T. ew them
all away except one that one he rasied as
if to strike me, and said that he would kill
me; and shot him. l did it because be.
licved he would have killed me"
He said all This y calm, aight
forward way, hssitat 'g now md then as 80
to recall he Incidents that led to re
tragedy. He spoke " tn some bi,,crnc,S of
feeling aboutthe law nat prohibited his
wife from Civ W testimony in the case, as
shealone heardthe threats Wagner ad
made on ne ~ ght preceding the Killing.
If he were allowed to prove this, he said it
would be impossible to convict him of pre-.
meditated killing No sane man could be-
lieve that lad shot Wagner without some
proyocatlon The fact of the killing itself
was proved, slipped Of any Of the causes
leading 10 II, md he was made to appear as
a cold-bloodet murderer. Everybody l. rev
that Wagonerreturn d from the excursion
TO Cairo underthe influence of liquor on
the evening of he 4th but no one but him.
self and wife hard the threats of Wagner
to take his life, Ii he could have got this
fact before the ury, he would not be where
he was to-day.
Burklow was 0rty.hye years old last No
vcmber. He wa, born in Graves county.
Kentucky, and ha lived Alexander and
Pulaski counties thirty.two years. He is
about five feet sewn ,che, HEIGHT about,
We Judge, $50 lbs u weight, dark. unkcmpt
hair chin beard an moustache, cold gray
eyes, nose prominent and Of Roman
cast, small mouthhrm, lcavy jaws, with
grave and Thoughtful expression Of countc-
nance. There is nching repulsiye in the
looks of the man. He has been y our
coun,.' Jail, with the exception of a brief
period while at his tnil in Nicrna. since
the 9TH of July last md ne confinement
has told upon his frame and features. He
says that although h has been in several
! fights his re, he was never Known to
draw a weapon ~ personal quarrel, He
was soldier duriIg the war in Logan's
Union command; las been married twice
and has one chile living by his last wife;
was divorced iron Is first y {, who ''ter-
ward married DNc Waters Of Cairo. She
| is now in 'hc ilS?Tc asylum at I '1cinnati.
His present wif,is at Percy, Randolph coun-
y. He said a Potion pray Z for
a commutai5n OF ; sentence, had
been sent 10 Coz. CuilOm in
December la., 81 lcd by the judge be-
fore whom hcwas led, the attorney Of the
people who Prosecuted him, the sheriff and
coun judge r'"r Of 'hc jurors, and be-
tween six ami seven hundred citizens Of
JoE 1son comfy, but had heard nothing
from it ,iqcl He saw in the Globe-Dcmo-
crat d sholl time aitcrward tha' remoa.
STRANGE hadal,o been forwarded signed by
about. a. ic had heard, cighy.iiye per-
.pr. H. ya- defended by Capt J. L.
ThDma- ana NJ i. g. Damron, the latt =
gentleman ~ attorney at Vienna In re-
p.y ~ que. inn a. ~ what hc would like
% have done for him. or il there were any
pcrDrs hc yord Ike % ser, he said b.
diI rot yg1v what 10 DO, and apart from
III. wife AID ailh, 50 fricndlc.,. Through.
ou' ne a.g.c a'crjcw hc bore lmsc.!
Ike man. = = what Do had 10 say in
an Intelligent men mua.-,d say, entirely
fre' from 'Ae .jg!ito.' TING Of either
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TuEEE ~ rEDELE Is -rUHE for those
wu0uog'rn' ., rriy ircguaritic. Of tie
stomach, iiyI and bowci- which they ioo..
i.hIy imapn, will come right Of them
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