St. Paul daily globe., 1891-10-22


board placed at the head of his grave Lone
jack
This Lone Jack" incident is another
that is remembered by several in this
city as all actual occurrence. SO also
was the wrecking of the train OIL 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 Eouse on Wau
Bay lake. l do not know what they did
there, as never went there to the house, but
from there they hired team and came TO
Fergus Falls and hired house, and are here
yet
Fergus Falls RascaIIty.
The first of their rascality that 1 know of
in Fergus Falls was robtery of house
north of Opperman lake, close to the Pelican
track. The house was stripped of bedding,
clothing and 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 yetoccupy.
The theftS referred to In the last par
agraph are facts. The above quota
tions are only a part of the statement
referring to Goheen'S mother and
brother Anderson. Many other crimes
are related with equal circumstantiality
but there is not room to include them
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 Go
heen family is on par with that of the
famous Benders. From this, however,
the senior Goheen should be excepted.
He is quiet, industrious, law-abiding
man, who deeply regrets the course of
his wayward family. With one excep-
tion 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 deyotes himself to more recent Oc-
currences. He writes:
came here Ill January. 1891 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
ca me from Iowa. Here i will say previous
to my coming up here Anderson and Rosa
Bray went together good deal, and they had
a 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
of the way mother took on about my going
with her. She often told me if would not
stop going with her she would kill her. and
some day her dead body would be fished out
cf 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 punder, which he
most always succeeded in getting
The house that we live in Is small one
and-one-half story building Our folks oc-
tl,n1, nh
Sists of two rooms The bed room was at
the south end. The old folks and children
slept in there, and in the northwest corner
of the house was the bed that myself and
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. un-
til the rest of the family retired. Then we
W ould 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 de-
scription of the manner in which his
brother Anderson killed Rosetta Bray.
This is in effect a 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
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 writer, 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 mis- own behalf, and concludes
as follows:
His Peroratfon.
Ny 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 2ist of March.
his actions on the journey to Woodside-for
instance, where ne passed the house of
Gould in the way that he pulled down his
hat Furthermore, his episode in Wadena,
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 law-abiding citizen think of
| that? Is he innocent? ADELBERT COHEN.
| 1t is probable that this is the last
| effort OF Adelbert Goheen to prevent
| the moose from Tightening around his
| own neck. 1t is one of the most remark
| able statements that ever emanated
from 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 InduIges i'm Jokes
about his approaching end and chats
about it to Sheriff Billings with every
| appearance of uncOncern. Some of his
facetious remarks are so CHASTITY that
the sheriff says they fairly make his
blood run cold. He 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 un-
supported to the gallews. He listens
attentively to Rev. Father Lange's talk,
but does not show that he is at ali
| tnnchad by IL He makes no nhinntinn