The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-10

difference what becomes of me and nov
my wife won't have the children to tax,
care Of She can do washing and othe
work, and earn enough to live on. 1t i.
better for her than to have the chill
dren.
R.-Did you love your children?
P.-Why, Of course 1 did, and that
was why / shot them. They didn't feel
it. / put the pistol up close to their
heads, and they died right of and went
to heaven.
R.-But Anna didn't; she is alive now
and has suffered terribly.
P.-Is that SO? No, it can't bc-you
are fooling me. I can't understand. !
thought killed them all. / meant to,
and, if had supposed that Anna was
not dead, would have given her anoth-
er shot. l had plenty more cartridges,
and if you will let me out will go right
down there now and finish her.
R.-Tell me just how you shot them.
P.-Well, you see my little Emma
was lying on the bed, and my eldest 1T
tie girl was taking care of her. The lit
tie one sfel of the bed the other day
and hurt her very much, and felt sorry
for her. I always loved my children, and
could not bear to see them take any
hurt, so told the oldest to take care Of
her when she was on the bed, and see
she didn't fall again. So she was stand
ing by the bed, and l called my little
Anna into the other bedroom and told
her had got something to show her
with fiendish laugh. Then | pulled
my revolver out of my coat pocket, and
when she was looking at it she said, ooh,
| how prettyw and l put it up to her tenn
pie and shot her and she fell right down.
Then went into the bedroom where the
others were, and my little one lay right
there on the pillow, and / thought
could shoot her, too, so she would die
right off and never feel it,
Rand then you shot the eldest,
| nidn't you?
P.-Yes it was the day they had got
to die, and thought ,uight as well Kill
her then, and so shot h.r, too, and she
fell right down on the floor.
Rid you bring Anna into the bed
room and lay her on the bed?
P.-Ycs, | picked her up of the floor
and carried her into where the others
were, and laid her on the bed lust rs
nice as l could.
R.-But ynn left the e!;lea. lying iii lie
blood on the floor. Why didn't you
pick up her body, too?
P.-She bed so much that ! Thought
the blood would get all over the bed, and
it could be cleaned off from the flour
much more easily than from the bed.
R.-What do you suppose will be done
with you?
P.-I don't know. Perhaps they will
shut me up in Jail. 1t makes no differ.
ence. am just as we'll off there as any
where.
R.-But they will hang you for this.
P.-Well, 1 don't care. They may do
what they please. l don't make the
laws. had got to do it those children
couldn't live to come on the town and
go to bad houses. wouldn't have it.
If wasn't christian, might.
R.-Then you are Christian, arc
you?
P. Yes, am good Protestant Chris
tan. ! never have had time to 20 to
church in Holyoke, because l always
had to work Sundays; but used to 90
when was in Northampton.
Reminders account of the crime was so
shocking that the officers could hardly
| throughout to think that he had done
meritorious action, and talked ms free.
| ly of his disposition of the children as
though they had been simply treated for
sickness. He never once speaks Of it as
a crime, and perhaps this of itself is
sufficient evidence of his insanity. A
man in his right mind could hardly talk
as he does, unless he was indeed devoid
of all semblance of soul. His appear
ance is singular, but he has more of IN
expression of treacherous, cunning soul
| lessness than Of yiciousness.
A later dispatch from Holyoke gives
tho following additional particulars of
the tragedy; When Kemmler arrived ut
Omaha on his return trip, he tried to OBJ
tain work of a farmer, but could not make
n bargain. He made up his mind while
West to kill his children when he got
home. He said "They are small now,
and good as anybody's children. If
kill them, they will go to heaven and
will never do anything bad, and will
never be bad girls.' Last unday he
thought the matter over, and decided to
kill his children this week. He was
with tho children down by the river
Thursday night and thought of their
falling down on the cold damp ground.
He thought he would wait and kill them
in the house. Last evening he went out
and practiced with his pistol sec if it
was ali right, and this afternoon he sent
his wife away and killed them. He had
rather see them buried and in heaven
than see them bad. He repeatedly said !:
"Pm growing old, and l can't make
money to send them to school and dress
tn EN- we'll, and am afraid they will be
bad" While he was narrating this sto-
ry an officer came in and told him one Of
the children was alive. At this ne
jumped at the grated door like q Gagged IT,
ger, and shouted: "Let me out! Let me
60 and kill her! don't want her in
pain" When the officer told him that
the child would soon die, he quicted
down and said; ooh, it is all right
then !" He repeatedly asked the BY
standcrs ii they did not think he Gid
right. He said he would not have
come back from the Black Hills had
he not determined to kill the children.
He wanted to free his wife so that she
could support herself while he was away.
He said that his wife had been Obliged
to lock the children in the house and 20
out washing to support them. Hcthought
at first that he would poison them, and
got the poison, but he thought that would
be painful for them, and he did not want
to hurt them. He said he loved his chill
dren very much, and could not think OF
their growing up without schooling and
without good clothes to wear. At one
time, when making this statement, he
stopped, and, looking down to the floor,
muttered, at isn't right; it isn't right p
Tears came into his eyes, and he called
for his handkerchief This vas oil tho