Connecticut western news., 1880-01-07

,ault him. The man who did, should be | 'trung up without mercy and without wasting | ime with trial. I have owned up to enough to send me to prison for life; they | couldn't do any more than that for the Good. | Ale robbery; why, then, should not confess | did it? l never told Gray that had | truly done it. a he testified in court, nor did | tell his wife was out of money and would | have to knock somebody down to get some. 1 vance that intended to commit such crime | The map Hall, who testified to seeing me on | the Sheffield road on the 'svenihg of the day ! when Goodale was. .assaulted, told the truth, | but some of the others swore falsely. I. was | on my way home to keep out of the clutches | of the Hillsdale officers. I was not near | Goodale's and knew nothing of the cIime until reached Shefiald that nigkt.;HST T stsyed at | my fathers, and they told me Goodale- had; l been robbed, but said nothing of suspect,ng 1 me. The next day, Friday, wen. to Fullesss, 1 my wife's fathers, and there, for the first time,. I heard | was suspected. I then thought of delivering myself up, to prove my innocence, but concluded that should be handed over to the Hillsdale officials, and so I resolved to keep out of the way until Good. them it was not me who had robbed him. II got to Gray's, in. Chapinvilie, on Saturday, and at his house read the account of the af- fair in the Courier. left Gray's but can't remember where I stayed on Saturday night, but on Sunday met Gray disappointment in g. pine grove near the church He then told me I was suspected, but ]. denied my guilt and he asked mo if I could remember where I staid that night I told hiIn:I could not prove my whereabouts, and he then suggested that he and his wife would swear that stopped with them during the night preceding the assault if Icould get Fullers folks, to swear that T. came to their house 6n the morning of the crime, about the time it was committed, and thus we could establish an alibi. This was talked over considerable but nothing, definite settled- Srsy gayesm9 some food, ,hndas it was raining told him thought ! .Wauad. lodge in his barn, and went on to thd MoNS covered myself with hay and slept 3h3fes Sometime in the night Gray awoke me aud asked me if had heard anything. I said no. and he said the officers had been searching his house for me, but that they had gone of. stayed in Gray's barn nearly all the time, and Mrs. Gray cooked chickens for me that had stolen, and she knew that had stolen them. I was aYaY during the night but
 would get back to- the barn just before day light, and the arrangements were that should aiwsys enter by certain door, which could no, be seen from the road. "Both Gray and his wife knew was there whenever was there, and Mrs Gray brought me milk and other food. Gray now pretends that all he knew of my affGiEs I told him. |! That is too absurd; he had tbe postage stamps, pennies Fand postal cards stolen from the 5Stockbridge
 post office, and divided with him every time. But of course all his folks will swear him clear if they can. They think there is no use of us both going to prison and SO they
 will swear to anything to get him free. But they had all better look out, or will fix more of them. There are those not yet brought out who arc trembling aud tOtssying and | eou
 been up to see me, but she writesEto me. I don't rely on her much, as she went back on
 me when Twas here before, and only six
 menths, and if she Scanst+ bs true for six
 months there's no use expecting it when. I
 have got q life time in prison before me.
 She writes ell nice enough, but she won't
 stick"
 Have you any suspicion as to who assail-
 ed MT. Goodaie 2" asked the reporter. "Well," was the reply, t'Gray and chum of
 his were over to the Twin Lakes on the 4th
 of July, and I heard them talking about
 Goodale. What they said and what they planned shall tell in court, and not before.
 And another thing; on the same night MT.
 VanDeusen, the agent at the Stockbridge de. pot, was knocked down with club, Gray
 was in that vicinity. think 1t was that very night he stopped at Tuller's, in Curtisyills You can draw yolr own conelusions." .-.:s The Goodale accusation seems to trouble Webster more than all the others, and he says
 he shall have counsel to defend him in that case, Though declaring that hef expects i'm.
 prisonment for the rest of his life; he seems restless and uneasy, and walks his cell al.
 most unceasingly. He talks freely, and fs
 evidently furious over his betrayal by Gray
 and wife, and hessvould be happy @ get ttlistp
 convicted and imprisoned Fith4iIR v; K : WHAT GRAY SAYS ABOUT IT. 'S .s',;
 James Gray who has s'given Webster away a
 is held under three accusations of .complicity
 with Webster. He occupies cell remote
 from Webster, and no communication is al-
 lowed between them. The reporter found
 him in very cheerful mood and willing to
 talk. 'I am in jail for helping justice get
 hold of Webster, said he, "and this is my
 reward. If 1get out of this, justice will have
 to do her own work, for all my help. The
 facts are just these Webster came to my
 house the next day after his escape from Hillsdale, and he was around there until the
 Monday morning of the week that Goodale
 was assaulted. Then he told my wife he
 must have some money if he had to knock a
 man down to get it., gave him an agents
 outfit to canvass for rubber stamps and he
 went away. He left the outfit at bis father I'in-law's in Sheffield and started of He was
 seen in the vicinity of >Egremont on Tuesday and on other days, until Tharsday. evening, the day tke assault was committed The man
 who did it had spent the time from Tuesday
 until Thursday in Goodale's barn. Webster
 will give no account of where he was. He
 reached Sheffield Thursday night, and was there until Saturday morning, when he came
 to my house. He said he was innocent, and
 as he was one of the family I decided not to tell where be was, but to let the officers find
 him if they could On the morning of the arrest saw him in the barn and then .hs told me for the first time of all the crimes he had committed, and where the plunder was. was aston,shed at his revelations, particularly his confessing to have robbed MT. Goodale, and when l went back to the house told my wife what a bad man he was, and that if an officer came would give him up. About that time the Harrington officers appeared and told them where Webster was. They would never have;found him if hadn't told them. In retaliation. Webster is declaring l was his associate in some of his crimes. It is all false, and can prove my whereabouts on every night that he accuses me of being with him. He is the biggest' liar in the world, and will look Q man in the; face and swear to his lies. AIT know about his crimes he told me hitnAelE. and he was under arrest through my instrumeptality immediately after he had cOh,, fessed to me. Of course ,ahan expect aRs acquittaln a;,: as 'r&t t'
 Y Gray is .; young man of about 2l. Web ster and he married sisters. There is no doubt that he has been useful in aiding the officers to work up the cases againsl Webster, and chiefly through his information the stolen property was recovered. Webster's retalis- ton was but natural, and it may be that he is uujustly accused through Websters desire for revenge The investigations of the grand