Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-07-01


fore taking this poison he wrote the
following letter and confession for
which he gave an order to our repor-
ter on his lawyer, Mr.. H. S. Priest,
of Moberly. 1t is published GER
bdtint.
HIS Asst LETTER.
KANSAS CITY, June 20, 1880.
Mr.. EDITOR: Please put this bea-
fore the readers off your paper. This
is my side Off this ottaile fate which
hangs over my head. i was u restud
one June the first and have bine in
Jail at st. Louis and Kansas City
ever since the first off June 1877 and
have not bine aloud too sea my INA
OR my wife and child 2 hours since i
have bine in THAR hands. Since my
Centence off death has Bine Past one
me i have not bine aloud too have
my wife with me over 8 hour at the
time and theme , have bine inc my
Cell whair i Cold not kiss hur or my
Child. She left me this cave for too
never meat agane u urth. (Oh)
i Rite this with a ivrme hart and with
the Promise of our Crate affinity
God that he bring hus home too
heavene whair al is loved. the
Readers of this Peace will remember
i anne charged with n OIL the Cold
ana most iior.lidc murders w one
Record But viii Just say too the
Readers i hav" no Recollection off
shutting of mo.}tc" Parish a'ltho !
have got TOO Pay tile Penalty off the
law. i will just say have ins. 6lne
handed nay Moberly Paper VIVA: j
red that those biud hounds has bine
fixing for too have a nice time Whene
i have got too die on the scatiold
(oh) i will fule them. i void not
give those bludd Hounds Of Ran
dolph Co the P.csuv Off sealing ne
dangle at the end OIL a Rope. | am
going to take 3 IL cranes off NOR
phene just as sune rs i Can Rite this
to your Paper. All i want too say
is this. when i have bine inc Jail inc
Kansas City i have been fed 2 meals
a day and Coffee once v e since i
have bine Contind hear. is that the
way your laws is inc this world. just
because one Paper or one Ritch name
gets down one q name he has got too
bea mistreated buy all. if this is
human treatment i will say hell is a
Paridice to this place. starve a name
and keep his family from hime whens
he liant but 3 days to live. BY
god it is all the hell i eve expect too
sea. Rit too shuritie matlock Re
questlng hine too bring ne up 50 i
cold sea my People and he R!t me ne
void not. he tole me if i should ask
hime a Rcasonibule Request he woltl
grant it.. he also Rlt too tine mar
shall of KANSAS City and toic hiinc
too keep my wife and Child away
frome me. ! don't think tina was
ever a maue treated like i have hine
treated since my s~entanCe was Past
one me. anne going too take my
one life this time. tia say | took
%poysone. it is not true. i never.
Bat i will say anne going 10 take it
now. i Cane die and III it was those
people hoo is So eager too sea Inc
hung tina void bea criing and shivcr-
ing in THAR close. suppose the peo-
pie will say / IN crazey (oh) i have
Us good u sence a. eny name. rs
for the people OFT that county . have
not the least malace too wards theme
and as tor Doctor Parish he has
cosed me all thls trubell. i have
give up and made up my mind TO
take morphene. i Sent my Dear
wife home SO i Cane take the deadly
doce. i hope i may get pardon
frome all my friends and Relatives
for this Rash act. i void not have
took this iif had bine treated halle
white and like a name. tina drove me
too murder and now tina drove me
too take my one life just by mistrcst-
ing me. i beg Pardone from all i
have injured and pardone all hoo
has injured me. Please put this III
your paper. Yours truly,
J. ii. BRowN.
1t was thought at Kansas City that
cowardice prevented Brown from
taking morphine until his act could
be seen and arrested; but however
this may be he exhibited great self
possession throughout the trying Or
deal to which he was subjected,
manifesting another spirit than the
one that seems to have possessed him
when he wrote the above. 1t is
scarcely necessary to add that Mrs.
Browns suicide and Browns own
conduct fully justified the authorities
in ali the charges he brings against
them.
The remains OF Mrs. Susan Blown,
Hade's dead wife, were brought
down on Friday nights train from
Kansas City. At the Huntsville de-
pot the body Of Haie, prepared for
burial, was waiting in q neat double
coffin, which bore the inscription
SAT REST engraved on a silver
plate this WAS put on the train and
both bodies taken to MoberIy. At
the Moberly depot the bodies were