Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
HIS OWN STORY.
Joseph Casey Tells His Record Briefly
 and Mildly.
It Is Not Exactly the History Given Him in the Minutes of the Courts and
 sherin-s Resisters.

This morning a CITIZEN reporter visit
 ed Joseph Cosey in the county jail, who
 is held for execution for the killing of
 the jailer, A. W. Holbrook. The prisoner
 was found sitting on bunk in the cell
 and readily accorded an interview, tell
 ing his story about as follows:
 My true name is not Casey; I do not
 care to reveal it, as am not disposed to
 disgrace my family. have been dead
 to them for years, and will now be for
 ever. was held here last October on a
 charge of robbery committed at Gala
 basas. and made my escape the day of
 the trial. After great deal of hardship
 I reached Big Springs, Texas, where I
 was arrested and confined h the jail a. Colorado City, Texas, forty miles from Big Springs. There l was fed very plain food, and kept in a small cell They were sxS, and often held from five to ten men. The jailer had contract to feed the prisoners. The breakfast was piece
 
 before by the mice, and the dinner was little shallow soup, with a small piece of meat. After l had been In there two months and half, l made break. l caught the jsIlOr and tried to take his pistol away from him. l grabbed the stock and be held on the muzzle. He grabbed me around the waist and called to a ranger down stairs, who pointed his gun at me and l gave up. They then chained me down to the floor in a laying posture. This was Tn last January. Till Paul came they fed me on bread and water About two weeks before Holbrook's death I had a cOnver- satiOn with him. He asked If l would have shot Robinson If l had succeeded m using the pistol, to which | replied no. tried to tell this court the other day, but I got rattle-headed.
 1 belonged to Company M, Sixth Cav airy. Captain Ratferty. I was recruited in Chicago, May l7, 1880, and was hon orably discharged at Camp Bowie a year ago next July. 1 was shot at Camp | Apache m the ball of the right great toe | by a man named Barry. He was trying | to shoot Barney Healey through a win | dow Tn the sutler's store, and I tried Co | take his gun away when I was wounded. | didn't know if 1t was an accident or not.
 am 2G years old, and was born in Rochester, New, York, October 77, 1858 l My father came from Ireland. He Is yet | living, but my mother has been dead | twelve years. have two brothers and | one sister yet hving. I went to the I public school over five years, and that Is all the education l have had. I never was religious, and went to Sunday school when young, only as a matter of form, l reckon. I went to live with one of my brothers in Canada before my mother died, and staid there till 1879. Then l was there about year till en- listed in Chicago.
 In answer to questions he stated that he had no fear of death. that he had been in many tight places before and never weakened then. He says he does not want the slightest chance of escape md nothing ahead but rope. He sees 10 necessity of taking an appeal to the upreme court, us he IS confident he will wing anyway, and as far as he is con 'erned there Is no use in pOstpOning the | 'xecution after July 27th.