Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-15

OF which they were convicted. They
further state that so far as they know there
was no poison administered to the men
in the Homestead mill Gallagher's con-
fession is written by himself and sworn to
before Squire S. d. White, of Haysville
Davidson's was given verbally in the
presence of witnesses. Attorney Porter
one of Dempsey's attorneys, six weeks ago
received a letter from Gallagher asking
him to call at the penitentiary.
One Perjurer Corroborates Another.
! Mr.. Porter called and in the presence of
Warden Wright and Squire White Gala
CHER and Davidson told their stories. Gal
lagher said that the secret was killing
him. He had prepared the confession and
read it to the gentlemen present and then
! made affidavit to it. Davidson's state
| ments were simply confederation of Gal
| lagher's. Mr.. Porter gave out the sub
stance of the confession, suppressing only
the names of the men whom Gallagher
| says were in the plot to send Dempsey to
prison. Mr.. Porter read Gallagher's con-
! fession as follows, showing the reporter
| that the paper was properly signed and at
| tested:
Charges Against the Pinkertons.
Dempsey and Beatty are entirely inno-
| cent. L never got any powders or poison
| from them, and l never administrated any
in the mill was told by Pinkerton de
| tectives who arrested me that if did not
! do as they wanted me to do they would in
| dict me for murder and have me hanged
They got me drunk and prepared con-
fession for me. was kept supplied with
money and whisky for days, while a de-
tective shadowed me all the time was
| told that if attempted to get away l
would be shot. After the story got into
the newspapers l was given a-reroiyer
and was told that would be justified in
| shooting any one who molested me-
Why They Wanted Dempsey.
"They told me they were after Demrsey
because he was at the head of the Knights
of Labor and that organization was no
good and ought to be broken up. They
said that if would testify against Demp-
sey and Beatty they would not push the
murder charge against me and that l
would 60 free. At the most, would get
only sixty days, to satisfy the public. They
continually cautioned me not to get mixed
in my story, but to swear to what they
said and stick to it Thev made me re-
hearse the story frequently. There were
other witnesses who were to take their cue
from me and-make their stories co,robor.
ate mine.
Everybody Veracious but Gallagher.
@What Dempsey swore to was true. He
hired us to make reports of the number
of men in the mills. That S25 got from
him was borrowed money, and was used
to prevent my furniture being taken from
me. f. w. Robinson, the prisoner in Jail
who testified that told him Dempsey
was innocent and that this was put up
job told the truth. | did tell him that |
was kept supplied with money, provisions
and clothes while was in Jail the same
as when | wRs out. They kept continual
ly telling me toswearthis case through and
stick toiit SO they could not get cut of it as
in the Critchlow case If they got this case
through they said that would settle the
Homestead people. was told they had
twenty witnesses to bolster up my story
They had me so badly frightened and kept
me drunk 50 long that | did not know
whether / was living or dead half the
time.nl