Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-11
WednesdaU's Evidence.

Wednesdau's Evidence.
WOOD FURTHER TEsTIFIEs.
DEXTER, MIMI, GA. M.-Riley told me
here was reward Of $1,000
offered for the arrest of the Page assassin; he
said they never could arrest him, as there were
too many now at Austin down on the old
Judge; he said when he committed crime he
| never told anybody; you can never tell who
your friends are, he said; had been in five
times; bucked and gagged the jailor and got
out at Oshkosh h; he said he had piece of gas
pipe two feet long and made him (the jailor)
hold up while the other party tied him and
put him in cell; he said he and Johnny Du-
gan got away with a lot of jewelry and the
Oshkosh police got track of him at Fort How
ard or Green Bay; while at the depot at Fort
he drew a revolver and shot at the
officer; stood off the crowd
and got away; he was caught afterwards by
sending paper to prostitute marked, Jack
Riley is all rights" was walking along one
night and he said he had bought the house for
$3.50, and some landlord had also $500 of his
money; said he didn't have dollar when he
went in prison and not dollar when he came
out; when he came out he went to Oshkosh
to look after his wife; some sporting women
told him his wife had been playing off on him
and going with another man up at Stevens
Point; he went from Oshkosh to Stevens Point
and from there to Wausau; learned his wife
was at Green Bay; heard there she was at New
London at Carr's house; he said he went there
with the intention of knocking the stufing
out of her; said he made her get down on her
knees and beg. and let her go;
he staid there several days and she gave him
money enough to come up to Minnesota; he
Ot toll uhotx he
esota, except that he made money; he showed
me letter from Conners in Oshkosh Jail, the
man he cut at Waupun; said SConners was ar
rested for robbing an actress last spring of &c.
900, of diamonds; that Corners dubbed her
over the head and tore the diamonds off; said
Pinkerton's men found one of the parties, who
squealed, and Corners was arrested, and the
woman identified Corners; he told Corners to
get change of venue to some other county,
and if he did, he would try to help him from
outside; (shown letter.; yes.d have seen this
in the possession of John A. Riley, at Stevens
Point.
THE ooNNoRs LETTER,
thus identified, was read, and is as fol-
lows:
COUNTY JAIL, OSHKOSH Wis. Dot. %, 1880.
John Riley, Esq.-Dear Sir: Yours the
Oath at Hand. Jack was glad to hear from
you and Your Letter Found me Well rs hope
these few Lines Will find you the Same. I
appreciate your Kindness and good Will
towards Me Later I saw in The Chicago
Times of your being arrested in Milwauk ee
and was glad to hear that it was No Serious
Charge. John there is Nothing Like Liberty
after all but at the same time it is all Most
impossible to Keep your Liberty there is So
Many Dam Stinkers outside they Will put up
Job on man at any time in order to get
him out of the Way Yours Res
JOHN CoNNoRs.
Wood stated that Rago. who
with Kinroy escaped with Riley
fro Waupon, was shot by Mrs. Mitchell on
State treet1.ghioago. while attempting to rob
her room. Kinroy Was arrested in Detroit and
Sheeney George was up for the murder of a po
iceman in Chicago.
He (Riley) agreed to go up to Minnesota, but
backed Out-said he was afraid to go up there;
it was a bad place to get arrested; he had done
good deal of work up there and was afraid of
being arrested; he finally came with me to Wi
mona; stayed at Huff and he at the Ameri-
can; he was to call for me in the morning; the
next morning he did not come; this was on
Thursday; did not see him again until Sat-
urday at Stevens Point; he said there he came
around in the evening to see me and was in
bed; he said man came up to him-a man
with large whiskers-whom he recognized as
from a town in Iowa where he had done some
crooked work; the man told him to wait till
he went to the postofice, but he was afraid he
and came to see me; he said
he went to Owatonna and Austin;
he said there was nice little safe in the hotel
at Owatonna; small man could pick it up and
carry it out; he said he made revolver and
$50 while he was away; did not say where he
made it; he said q man was arrested in saloon
where he wa, playing freeze oat, and he skip
ped out the back door, for fear they might ar
rest him; he said there was another party ar
rested at Austin for setting fire to some build
ing; he said he would not go to Minnesota
again, for every time he went he had to skip
out; he said he had holy terror of going into
Minnesota; at last he agreed to 60 to Winona
but was to stall while done the inside work;
I tried to hold cut inducements to him to 90
over to Minnesota, but he finally backed out
he lent me his revolver, and came to Mime
sofa alone; he said to me to
be careful and not get arrested;
was arrested and put into Jail at Albert Lea;
Jail at Albert Lea; it was on the 10th or Goth of
November; he did not recognize me before the
officers, nor did him; afterwards I expressed
surprise at seeing him there and asked him
what he was there for; he said for the attempt
ed assassination Of Judge Page: asked who
Judge Page was, he said, Don you know?
He is the one told you they tried to kill over
in Minnesota when we were at Stevens Point,
that you said you saw the account of in the
Police Ne,US;'' said did remember finally;
asked him how they got him and he said they
arrested him on the street at Stevens Point;
kidnapped him; said you must be a foil to
let anybody kidnap you; did you make no
kick?" he said mo, what good would it do me
to kick, 1 did not know where they were going
to take me at the time;" said he got Judge
Gate, of Stevens Point, to get writ of habeas
corpus but they run him over to Grand Rapids
in buggy before he, (Oate) arrived;
he said if (Wood) had been over there. or
10
have got him over; he said the officers who
came to arrest him said they had travelled over
seven hundred miles after him. and if he had
known it they would have travelled more than
seven hundred more before they got him; he
said he did not see how the officers got on to
him; the only way he could think that they
got on to him was from his arrest at Milwau-
kee and that they had traced him to Waupun,
and SO on; he said while on the train he tried
to give the officers the slip, but one of the Of
foers was On to him all the time; he had $140
or $l5O on him when arrested, which the Of
fcers took away; there was no man in Austin
who could swear that they had seen him there
in fifteen months; he said they couldn't prove
anything against him, for no one saw him
there.
He said there was hardware merchant at
Austin named Ira Jones; said he knew him well;
that there was more against Jones than
there was against him; he said there was a
shotgun found at AUSTIN that belonged to
Jones, Or that he had sold; that it was the gun
that shot Judge Page and was the only gun
Jones had in the store; asked him what
kind of a man Jones was; he replied he was
pretty Eice kind of a man; 1 asked him if he
was a friend of Pages; he said ''hell, mop he
hated the sight of Page; he said Jones was
great friend of his brother Tom; he said they
would have had his brother Frank arrested but
Frank took pains to have lot of his and
Pages friends in his saloon the night of the
shooting, SO that if Pages friends went back
on him ne would have his own friends to prove
he was there; he said Frank had hit Judge
Page in court and had terrible row; that he
was arrested and was only hned 80;
he said the Judge page ordered the
sheriff to lock Frank up, but he said
Il guess have this man in charee." and took
him into his office where they had a good time;