St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-22

Jack
This Lone Jack" incid ant is another
| that is remembered by several in this
! city as all actual occurrence. So also
| was the Wrecking of the train OH the
| Northern Pacific road
About this time they began to get uneasy,
| and thought change of climate would be
| better so they moved from there to Day
| county, distance of 120 miles. Nobody
| knew where they were going until after they
had gone. They moved into house on Wau
| Bay lake. / do not know what they did
| there, as | never went there TO the house, but
| from there they hired team and came 10
| Fergus Falls and hired house, and are here
| yet
Fergus Falls RascaIIty.
The first of their rascality that I know of
| in Fergus Falls was robbery of a house
north OF Opperman lake, close to the Pelican
| track. The house was stripped of bedding,
| clothing anG everything that they could carry
away. The next was in the office building of
| E f. Corliss, which was robbed of clothing
| and musical instrument. Soon after they
| became suspicious of being suspected, and
burned all the goods in sheet iron stove in
the house they yet occupy.
The thefts referred to In the last par
agraph are facts. The above quota
lions are only a part of the statement
referring to Goheen'S mother and
brother Anderson. Many other crimes
are related with equal circumstantiality,
here. The inquiry into these charges
is in quiet progress. and the officers are
Still IN doubt whether to make arrests
or de lay until better proof is at hand. If
the above statements are true the Co
heen family is on par with that of the
famous Blenders. From this, however,
the senior Goheen should be excepted.
He is quiet, industrious, law-abiding
man, who deeply regrets the course Of
hIc ord fon
ton the sons
Bear a Hard Character.
There are five of them. Adelbert in his
statement next leaves Il e carnival of
crime which he has been describing
and devotes himself TO more recent &C.
currenceS. He writes:
came here Ill January, 1901. Previous to
my coming here from st Paul the boys were
all at home. They were here i'll the fall.
After was home a few weeks Anderson
anne from Iowa. Here l will say previous
to my coming up here Anderson and Rosa
Bray went together good deal, and they had
quarrel and quit each others company.
Soon after coming here / got acquainted with
her. as she came TO our house often. She
had worked for mother previous TO my CON-
ing home. went out walking with her
few times-I think not over three times at
the most quit going with her on account
of the way mother took on about my going
stop going with her she would kill her and
some day her dead body would be fshed out
CT the river.
They all knew where her room was in the
Corliss block, and Anderson used to prowl
around there night after night and around
the street in search of plumber, which he
most always succeeded in getting
The house that we live in Is q small one
and-one- half story building Our folks &C.
cuuy the lower part Of the house. which con-
sists of two rooms The bed room was at
ODD rIn IL f,1l- nk.s
slept in there and in the northwest corner
of the house was the bed that myself and
Anderson occupied. AS this room which
our bed was in was the kitchen, parlor and
bedroom, we generally laid down with our
clothes on, on the top of the bed clothes. I'M
til the rest of the family retired. Then we
would undress and go to bed.
Charged to His Brother.
Next comes deeply interes ting state
ment in which the writer devotes some
twenty closely written pages to a de-
scription of the manner in which his
brother Anderson killed Rosetta Bray.
This is in effect repetition of the
statement he made to the officers a
month or two ago, which caused Ander-
sons arrest and has already been out
lined in the GLOBE. He tells the story |
of the crime from beginning to end and |
shows every incident in such light |
that it may be used TO criminate his |
brother equally with himself. 1t has |
been ascertained that Adelbert did not |
refuse to go on the stand at the prelim- |
mary examination of his brother, as |
was first supposed to be the case, but |
that he was told by the officers-which |
was the truth--that his unsupported
statement would not he sufficient to !
hold Anderson, and therefore he |
reluctantly abandoned his plan |
of coming forward to testify. |
Lastly. the statement reviews the trial |
of Its w1iter, points out the weak points |
in the states testimony, impeaches the |
credibility of several of the states wit |
neSses, asserts that his attorneys made |
many mistakes, including the serious |
one of not putting the writer on to tes- |
tlfy In his own behalf, and concludes |
as follows:
His Peroration.
My statement was not unsupported as |
claimed, but can be corroborated all the way |
through. In the first place. his description |
was given voluntarily by the railroad men |
that passed that night of the 2lst of March, |
when the murder was committed. Next, by |
his actions on the journey to Woodside-for |
instance, where ne passed the house of |
Gould. in the way that he pulled down his |
claimed by the people of that town.
Now. would say, in closing, that each |
reader can judge for himself, and draw his |
own conclusions. This is the only time that |
l ever spoke for myself of the sad affair. And |
this is the truth, which will be proven so if |
the matter is ever Investigated.
Now that Anderson is discharged from the |
custody of the law on the charge that he was |
arrested on. he drinks whisky, carries pistols |
defies the law in almost every way.
What does the W-abiding citizen think of |
that? Is he innocent? ADELBERT COHEN.
1t is probable that this is the last |
effort of Adelbert Goheen to prevent |
In
own neck. is one OF the most remark
able statements that ever emanated |
from a condemned criminal, and many
of its assert ions will bear close investig- |
alton before they are accepted as neces-
Sarily false. Since he finished writing
it Goheen has seemed more light
hearted than before.
He INDUCES in Jokes
about his approaching end and chats
about it to Sheriff Billings with every
appearance of unconcern. Some of his
facetlouS remarks are so CHASTITY that
the sheriff says they fairly make his
blood run cold. lie has gone over
every detail of the execution carefully
and knows exactly what is expected of
him. He has inquired particularly as
to who will be present, where the diff
ferent ones will stand, how far he will
drop, what will be done with his body.
and many other cheerful details
of the same character. He has urged
the sheriff to ''cloSe the DEAL" as he ex-
presses it. as promptly as possible after
midnight Friday morning, and says he
hopes he will be allowed to walk ,Iu-
supported to the gallows. He listens
attentively to Rev. Father Lange's talk.
but does not show that he is at ali
touched by it. He makes no objection
to prayer being offered, but SAYS he
doesn't care to do anything of that kind
himself. After the good priest leaves
he makes jokes about the wake they are
going to have, the candles which will be
burned nVnr his hndN and nthnrc Of