Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-21
STILL A MYSTERY.
WIN. KAY, SUSPECTED OF PARRI-
eide, ARRESTED AND JAILED.
He Claims He Can Prove an Alibi-
The Prisoners Statement
to Reporter.

:
suspected by many of having murdered
his aged parents at Folsom on the 9TH inst,
an item regarding which was published in
yesterdays REcoRD-UNIoN, was the all-ab-
sorbing topic of the day. William Kay
was visited at 6 P. NJ. yesterday iii the
Sheriff7s Office at Marysville by a representa-
tive of the RECORD UNION. who had been
specially detailed for that purpose. There
were present Sheriff S. E. Inflow, Under
Sheriff l. n. Aldrich, the officer who made
the arrest; Deputy Sheriff John McComber
and detective Brissell, of Sacramento. Kay
was rather
SORRY AND sEEDY-LooKIHG INDIVIDUAL.
His face apparently had not seen razor
for several weeks. it being covered with a
coarse, reddish beard, half an inch in
length, his upper lip sported moustache
of large proportions, and his hair was I'M
kempt. On his head was a low crowned,
greasy-looking, black SLOUGH hat; around
his neck was a somewhat faded but dirty
red handkerchief of silken texture. He
wore black cloth pants, soiled and much
worn his feet were adorned with neat
fitting pair of button CATERS, while, in the
place of coat, he wore blue blouse, out
of the pocket of which could be seen pro-
jecting the end of a small note book and
some letters.
HE WAS IN VERY TAXABLE MOOD
Especially so to Deputy Sheriff McComber,
who has known him intimately since
early boyhood. While talking, he leaned
back in his chair, and perched his feet up
on the rung of desk, and tried to put on
an air of honesty, that was occasionally APP
parently out of place, when the officers
would catch him in fiat contradictions.
The interview was a kind of general in
terrogation of the prisoner, by the reporter
and officers, each taking turn. He started
in by saying that he had always lived
peaceably at home, and had never at any
time entertained anything but the friend
lest and most affectionate feelings toward
his parents. The last time he left home
they were
BOTH ALIVE, AND THEIR PARTING FRIENDLY
Said since he came to Marysville he did not
know that he had run with anyone
in particular. Remember drinking with a
man by the named of Baker who lives here.
" | was pretty full when arrested yesterday,
and | cannot say who | was with any of
the time. | drank on account of my
trouble. | don't believe pawned my coat
had no gloves. You can See by my rough
hands that | have been laboring hard, and
that bare-handed. The first time | heard
of the murder of my father and mother
was Sunday last, when saw it in a paper
dated the 18th. That was the first that l
had heard of it.
WAS ON A BIG DRUNK
In Sacramento, but was not with Ewing all
off fD
evening, and put up that night at the Capi-
tol Hotel i'll Woodland. Staid in Wood
land all of Saturday 1.-THE Sd and Sunday,
the 4th, and left there Monday morning
1.-THE 5thl on foot for Dunnigan. Staid at
Dunnigan that night and left next morning
| the 9TH for the levee camp on the river.
am positive of the days of the week and
the register OF the Capitol Hotel at Wood
land will prove my assertions correct.
Walked from Woodland to Dunnigan alone.
a man
GAVE NE a RIDE IN A sPRING-wAGoN
The last two miles. He was the owner of a
band of sheep that had been dipped at the
river, and were being driven back into the
stubble. He gave me fifty cents with which
paid for my supper and breakfast. From
there | tramped on to Frazier's levee camp
Tuesday night, the 9th. Staid there
Wednesday, the 18th. THE day of the
murder.l Thursday, the Sth, and Satur-
day, the 9th driving team for a man who
owns a roam team. Think his name is
Pearson, but am not positive. Was laid
off Monday and Tuesday, the 18th and
18th. Tuesday night it rained. | worked
the balance of the week and came to
Marysville Saturday night, and there it
was that
TIL
stayed on the street all that night, never
went to bed, and drank great deal Had
not drank to amount to ANYTHING until |
read of the murder, and then did so to
drown my sorrow. When | came TO town
my cash amounted to IS 40. Visited saloons
alone, and drank with no particular per-
son. Don't know of any man being with
me upon the street. / was arrested by of
ticer Finn on Sunday. He did not inform
me of the fact that he was an officer, nor
that | was under arrest He showed me
picture. 1t was a photograph of myself,
and | knew it. | had
AT THAT TIME NOT HEARD OF THE TRAGEDY,
And did not know what Finn was holding
my picture for. said it was pretty good
picture. We both laughed and then went
out and had drink together He said to
me afterward that a family named Kav had
been murdered at Folom. | did not believe
him, so went and looked up the paper.
When | found the paper | was very drunk.
The article said that Ii was thought by some
that / had committed the deed but the
paper apparently held the belief that | was
innocent. | will admit that the picture
shown me was that of myself, and, being
guilty of no crime, l thought nothing more
of it. If there had been anything wrong,
and
! HAD BEEN GUILTY OF so FIEYDIsH A CRIME
| certainly would not have been living
around Marysville drunk. | don't know of
any reason why | told the policeman my
name was Wilson, unless it was that | was
drunk and thought it was none of his bust
ness. Did not know the Sheriff when he
arrested me, so l also said TO him nv name
was not Kay. If said to any of the officers
that | was just from Arizona, it was while
so drunk that | did not know what was
saying for such a statement is untrue"
The Under Sheriff asked Kay " Did YOU
not tell me you left Sacramento on the
I'd ?"
Kay-I don't think I did. Possibly, I
did tell you so.
Kay continuing said he knew nothing
about his fathers business or money af-
fairs. Did not know who owed him. nor
whether he was indebted to anybody. He
said 1.-THE
LAST TIME WAS HOME WAS ON THE 2STH
OF September. came to Sacramento with
a team, which put up at the Telegraph
Stable yard, on J, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth. | left the team there and
went to Woodland on the Thursday fol-
lowing. My first impulse upon reading the
article in the paper was to go home imme-
diately, but | had wasted my money in
drink and could not. | went to Harry
Rightmeyer, young man in Marysville
who was a schoolmate of mine, and told
him of the murder. He, too, had not heard
of it, and said he would raise for me the
amount of money which | needed. |
handed a man, l don't know who it was,
money to telegraph to Joe Kenney at Fol-
som and ascertain if what | read was true.
He returned shortly afterwards and said he
had an
ANSWER FROM KINNEY, AND IT WAS so.
was pretty drunk at the time; did not
ask to see the dispatch, and don't know
who in the devil the man was. He was
also to telegraph McComber to meet me at
Roseville. Drink and trouble together had
broken me all up when | was arrested. l
can show you where l have been every day
since / left home. All those in camp knew
was from Folsom. did not endeavor in
any way to conceal my identity. Several
VINO were acquainted with parties who live
at Folsom frannaptlu obaffa5 with