The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-06

on pionbasiOh III NcOEXihy DVCtmDer Il,
1852; when Eve years of age with my
mother and brother moved to Bourbon
county, Ky, living near Paris, until 1861.
when i came to Lafayette county. i made
my home at Mr.. Jamss Weir's, not far from
the Hicklin place, on the Dover road, and
remained there about thirteen months,
when went to Hickman county, XIV.
making my home at Columbus. 1 then
wandered around until some time in 1865,
when i came to Lexington, working for
different parties for about three years. In
1869 was married, on the John Catron
place, TO girl named Jennie Clark. We
lived together about two years, when I told
my wife i was going west. She was quite
young, and her mother was not willing for
her to go. determined to go, and as nv
wife would not accompany me
WE WIRE DIVORCED.
This brings me to III, when went to
Colorado. j was also at Helena and
Omaha, staying out west until 1873, when
came back to Lexington and began
farming on the Whittlesy place. / met
my divorced wife and we were about to re-
marry. Neither of US would acknowledge
that we were In the wrong, and this. to-
gether with the fact that she was then en-
gagged to Cornelius Hockadsy, whom she
afterwards married, kept us from marrying
again. Shortly after that married Belle
Jones, by whom i had one child. Two
years later she left me, taking the child
with her, and is now married and living at
Kansas City. In 1876 went to 81. Louis
and remained there until 1877. In Octo-
Der of that year j again returned TO Lex
ington, obtaining employment at the City
hotel as porter, in which position worked
until March, 1878, when / was promoted
TO the position of cook, filling that place
until 1881, when went down to Sedalia,
where got place as foreman of brick
yard. In September l came back here
once more, taking my place again as cook
at the hotel, and remained there until the
3lst day Of July, 1883, the day on which
GOT INTO TROUBLE
At this point he stopped, seemingly having
nothing more to say, and when questioned
rs to whether he desired 10 make any state
ment concerning the crime, he said :-"I
do not know. There is nothing l could
say TO make il better and il could not be
worse" Then he gave his version of the
affair, which is substantially the same as
IS given in the history of the crime, but
placing himself in favorable light, and
aging great stress upon the assertion that
he weapon with which the killing was
lone belonged 10 Jennie Sanford, and was
AIKEN from her in the struggle which en-
'ued in attempting to prevent her from
shooting him. He said he was crazy for
more than q week after his imprisonment,
md daily, for a longer period, asked the
,ause of it. Then he specially requested
hat it be stated that he wss innocent of any
in the killing of Ben. Evans,
n 1874, on the John Catron place, of
which he had been accused. Evans was
.slled from his home and shot dead be-
.ause he was suspected of stealing turkeys,
Ind JEFF SAYS tie only ground upon which
suspicion attached TO him was because he
lid not attend Evans funeral.
The Hockadsy woman occupies cell
directly opposite that in which Wilson was
confined. She was called to the grating,
Ind in answer 10 questions, said she felt |
orry for JEFF; she had had two husbands,
Ind he had always
BEEN HER FAvORITE
If the two; that the only thing about him
vas that he was too good TO the women or
he would not have got into trouble; that
he would come out all right i'm own case
in the killing of her husband
md that the newspapers had treated her
,adlv.