Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-28
BIRCHALL'S PAL.
New Development in the Ben
we'll Murder Case.
"THE COLONEL" WRITES ALBTTER.

Confirmation of the Condemned Mans
Claim That He Did Not XIII the Vic
TINA screed from jackson, Mich,
Which Is Notable for Its Cool Cheek
The Story of the Crime Told by Its Real
Perpetrator. Perhaps - Who Is the
writer?-BirchaIIs' Loyalty.
BUFFALO. n. Y, Oct 2S-The express
prints the following special dispatch from
Woodstock, Ont: On Saturday after
noon last Jailor Cameron received with
several other letters and papers adj
dressed to @Rex" Birchall, the con-
demned murderer. now lying in the Ok
ford county Jail, letter, the white en-
velope of which was somewhat soiled.
The letter was addressed as follows: -.
X. Birchall, Woodstock Jail, Woodstock,
Ont, Canada" The stamp was affixed
on the bottom left hand corner of the en-
velope, and the postmark, jackson. Mich.
Oct. ~, 4:30 p m, 30, was in the place
usually occupied by the stamp There
was, perhaps. nothing unusual about this
but glancing over the contents of four
pages Of ciosely-penciled note-paper, the
jailer hurried 10 Birchall's cell to allow
III.
The Scr-ed Verbatim ct Literatim.
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dians h.ya 40, -, r., ,"u 20 sno ana
Wei. must say am sorry for you, although
You know you are partly TO blame as well as
- y Nv uo'os "o,uer Mhere am aha
~, I'D $50 w. i9u can
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SIu Ahe" pen"ei. han revolver. you mad
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he,', 49, ~ouiu hs s happeheu ana you wouid
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y,o ,,','..,t - So 'Ou N'a no' 'oiu nun that
neh"eh was No Rascal.
We struck into that notorious swamp Just
Tor run TO get a shot II We could see anything,
ana While IN there the devil seemed TO come
me- aiiu 'oI MN the Whole iafin pupil
him 70 chm in ha :" , .nuie, anu Mah'e "a
the ola conntrv W. -, ~ - a "a, ~
hing nv usiny his nama ana -, =, - =
string. and thar What wa ,,onI5 - -.
would DON he made nm so.ir Wi b n ,.o,,
ought 10 have seen him Great Sco,t' n,d ~
on III spo, He wcS,t TOO ~ 49,, .s,ai lne
nv revolver. NV blood was nm foo raason..j
with him, and did all l could TO get him
arouni !, but no GO We talked the matter over
for perhaps three-quarters of an hour. same
times quietly, sometimes otherwise.
A Th,
Atlsst Ia ;,u,oa nm "a -, a. -, -
pose the whole damned lot OF US ana started
for the road. followed and. knowing what
exposure would mean, settled it then ana
.here NO" you Know II all I'm sorry did
, :. anu never ,housht oil getting You into
fors,;ye me r. His o 49, SHi nov nave 10
one will ever see aga n He aid no, hava - ~
money with him. l should have Ibon1b, rbat
any damned fool Of a lawyer would see that
for You TO kill hun would sToil your hances
OF getting your doodle do hope the Cana
uia . peop'e VIII trest YOU iaifiy ana at least
seain snd civ ,n, a5drass W." IN NIIte you
Qet letter fror, 70 pIaass -, 70
soon as YOU read il and DOM civ. nv ia
name To any one.N
THE Colonel, l.. Cool Villain
You have kept IL 70 vonrself veu md
thank YOU. 1t will do no good now IbiJ xor
a long farewell. but still hope TO see Won in
this world once more. hope you ara PEE
pared FOR the worst. The love of money and
sNcI'einsht mas caused me much trou le' but |
h,s Fvs- 80. +, ,',e uas 10 o"uie- 0Food-
- r., 80, III
last Janaary has been rim 20 4., ~, ~ i1on1oh
too. If Inject him am, hsrs nj -, -, ii'