Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-03-18
THOSE CONFESSIONS OF KILGoRE.
The Ledger Never Talks Unless it Knows.

THOSE CONFESSIONS OF KILGoRE.
The Ledger Never Talks Unless it Knows.
We have often read of people,
fighting over dead mems shoes, &cI
but never before Was there so much
fuss made about an executed mans
confessions as there has been fbout
KiIgore's. I
The LEDGER always publishes the
news and that, too, correctly, and
when We don't know we keep still.
Kilgore's first confession was news
and we published it. just before he
was executed he made another con-
fession and we published that also,
but made no comments On either.
We never said which one we believed
and don't know, nor do we care which
was true. The Press, always
lnsinuating, last week spoke of Kill
cores first confession as though it
were never made. We corrected the
editor of that paper, but with what
success our readers can CLEAN from
the following, which appeared in
yesterdays Press:
II, ,,, r.,l,t -, sI,, x.n,tin .F III I-;J
gore We used the term reported confession to
designate a statement purporting to come from
him, and at variance with the confession made
by him to Rev. c. +. OLeary. We used the
term advise,lIy. it being the exact Language OF
the spiritual adviser of the condemned man. rs
well as that. in substance, Of kilgore himself
We have the assurance OF Father o'Leary thai
our report is correct ; also, that when said re
ported confession was first Published it was re-
pudiated by Kilgore, who said thai some of the
statements therein were wholly false and thai
he continued to repudlate it up to the hour of his
death, often expressing annoyance that Sucl
statement should go to the world as coming from
him..
We simply chose to believe. and Il
publish. just what was averred by the dying
man ; supplemented by the statements OF hi
spiritual adviser, a christian gentleman whoSt
character will suffer no injury from coarse cpl
tlets.
We never used any ''coarse cpl
thets" against Father O'Leary
(Again the Press sneakingly tries tt
misrepresent us.) We would no
care If Father O'Leary, all the Catho
lie priests, and protestant preachers
in the world were to say kilgore di,
not confess as we said-we know
we were there. The Press is cvi
IDENTITY trying 10 make capital and sc
some of its readers down on us b.
making them think we lied. Ono,
on a time that paper published
statement which was false and sworl
to by a book agent. w do not fee
sore about that (our head has cote
well,) but W. were surprised that til
editor of that paper would allow sue
a thing. But here he is again, at hi
old trick, trying to make us enemie
by misrepresenting us. If the mana
gers of that paper had less mOrbi
jealousy they would be more of ger
tleman.
Wishing to settle this matter, b,
yond the shadow of IS doubt, We
yesterday, took II of Ringo & Ell
banks most stylish '~'lay-outs' an
visited Mr.. John Ding!e, well-know
to all the citizens of this county.
Mr.. Dingle says than in Februar
kilgore told him that he would nevt
| have killed Willlngham if he had III
been uryed on to do it. Mr.. j. F. NJ
| Williams heard him tell Mr.. Ding
this. Others were in the Jail at tn;
, time and heard the same thing. Nj
John Dlngle told ii. Glascock abor
this and Mr.. G. told us, so we we.
at once TO the Jail and got the co
tcssIon as published, word Tor wor'
. After kilgore confessed to us,
wrote q letter to Ii. kunliel statit
o the same thing in less words.
. We are heartily tired of this ma
ter and hope that this will be the Ell
V of it. There is not q man in MeXi,
9 but who sees the end that that pap
is trying to obtain. We have tri'
to attend to our own business al
v have no more trouble with the ''I'ft
gang but if they continue in t
j, future the course that they ha
adopted in tile past few weeks,
: will make it warm for them, unle
they get another book agent after |