Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-03-11
MORE HEMP WANTED.
Emily Prilly Returns and
Pleads Guilty
TO THE MURDER OF INLOW
AND WANTS TO BE
n
The Dead Man Haunts Her.
Day and Night.

The Dead Man Haunts Her
Day and Night.
Sheriff Glascock received the fol-
letter, post-marked Bowling
Green, Mo-, last Monday:
March 9th, 80.
Mr. glasscock you all just had bet
ter prepare for Me for i will be thare
next Monday evening or Tuesday
evening you will find Me down by the
flour Mill that night i am comeing
back for l cant see eny pea.e atall for
i see inflow yer night and cant live
the way it is and if you all hang nathe
and Jacob you Must hang Me to for
i am guilty of help killing him and
he bothers me so i can't rest he is al
ways following mt i know that i
promist not to come back but i an
on my road now have told you my
leason for coming back and EoN~II
have told you wheare i would bc-Sad
My reason for it look out for Me- for
i am coming back please MeeE Me
and take Me to Jale Mr.. Glascok yQrI
can tell the boys that i am coming
on-the boys that is in Jale i mean.
EMMA PRILI.Y.
All of our readers are familiaNYith
the killingvf Octave Inflow, and the
part that EmM Prilly, known as
"Short-a and Dirty" was accused of
taking in it. feu also remember that
the jury failed to agree on a. verdict
in the case, and as proof other guilt
could not be obtained, she was sent
away. A ticket to Louisiana was
given her and she was told never to
return.
Sheriff Glascock was not much sur
prised Monday when he received the
above letter, tor he fully expected
her to come back.
Last Tuesday night, at about eight
O'Clock. she knockd at the door of
the Jail for a%dmiitance, and the
sheriff took her in and locked her up
in a cell.
Yesterday morning the editor of
this paper, in company with Mr.. B. +.
Dobyns, had a short interview with
the girl at the Jail. We will give the
substance of what she told us in a
condensed form. We will not give
our questions, but her story AS
CLEANED from her answers:
l went from Mexico to Louisiana
when sent away after the trial. /
went out i'll the country and staid q
few days; l did not go out of the
State at all. Ever since Inflow was
shot, he has followed me in spirit.
l could see him in my sleep; l would
talk about him in my sleep. He gave
me no peace at all. When in Jail |
could not sleep for thinking about
him, and in the night dreaming about
him. | would jump out of bed. |
left Louisiana last Saturday and got
to Bowling Green at half-past twelve
Sunday morning, and slept in town
the rest of the night. had a little
money. Sunday | walked to Curry:
vile, and staid all night at a house
one mile this side of the town. l did
not get tired of walking, and my feet
did not hurt me at all. Monday night
| slept in the elevator at Laddonia.
Tuesday afternoon. about 4 O'Clock,
| got to the creek just east of Mexico
and staid there till after dark, when
came right in to the Jail. When at
Louisiana, l got II letter from my
uncle Sam Watkins. of Menard coun-
ty, Ills, who told me if | came home
he would beat me to death. This
decided, me about coming back to
Mexico; also, UrTeqight when in the
country near Louisiana, l talked ii
:. my sleep and gave myself away, ant
the people at the house who heard IN,
told me | had better come to Mexico
that | would never be Il good yirl, ant
That | could never go home, and thu
best thing was to come back ant
, plead guilty, and here | am. | wan
to hang-would rather hang than q
to the ~penitentiary. | am guilty, ant
want to die. Inflow follows me all til,
time. | don't care where / go afte
| die-ncver think Of that but wOul,
like to have t..ne to prepare for death
Shall join the Catholic Church-m,
father aud mother were Catholics.
am not ;fraid to diet is what l de
, served. l was drunk The night Inflow
} was shot. Nathan Faucet and Emm'
Mickey, colored (who is now in tn
~penitentiary for larceny, planned
the murder. Emma told me about i
i that afternoon. She said the boy
will shoot him over at the c. & A. X. r
o crossing by the creek. l said r1
> that is too far from his home. Jo'
Hicks, Nathan Faucet and Jak'
Muldrow were to do the shooting.
> did not see Joe fire the gun, but tn
boys told me that he did As l wa
n walking along with Inflow toward tn
e barn, | saw a gun sticking out. frou
behind a stump OIL the creek 9th
boys could not get a chance to xii
II him at the railroad crossing, and W
had gotten him over there by Emm
o Mickey and l shouting he came owe
o to see us). l knew the boys wer
there with the gun, and as 500 a
l got near the stump I stopped hin
and asked him for a chew of tobacco
and stepped away from him, whei
they shot him. l was sorry for i
right away. 1 was drunk, Or don
think l should have helped, for
" liked him. l was about 10 feet fror
e him when he was shot. He had hi
n hands in his pockets looking for tn
e tobacco for me. / want to quit m,
w. wicked ways and get ready to die
;" and then / want to be hung. l al
y Is years old my parents died whe
o l was 6 years old l then went to liv
with uncle Sam Watkins, who |
my uncle in Menard county, Illinois
h he beat me, aud treated me yer
badly. When l was Is years old
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