The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-14

SAYS HEW-s IN MGINTY'S HOUSE
BUT DID NOT ROB HIM

Had Been Drinking and did not Know
Where They Were Going When They
Left Town--Hid his Money I'm a Mat
tress and he Never saw it After that
Thinks the Officers did not use him
fair--Ycuid not let his Best Girl Bring
him Oranges--said he Would Take his
Medicine Like a Little Man.
When Judge Reed had imposed pen
| itentiary sentence on a number OF men
who had been convicted of offenses
against the law, and when they We're
being marched back to the jail, William
| Hupp, one Of the McGinty burglars,
called out to reporter for the Eagle
/ TO come with him 10 the jail, adding
that he had something TO tell him.
Hupp occupies one of the neatest cells
| in the rotary at the county Jail. He
seems to have taken a pride in decorat-
ing it and the walls are lined with neat
pictures which he claims 10 have paint
ed himself He had neat shelves ar
ranged in the corner and the cell is as
clean as new pin
On the ceiling painted in large neat
letters is his name William Hupp,"
and on the wall in letters which show
that Hupp is handy with the brush the
words He who enters here is doomed"
and running down the wall in Chinese
style in "A straight line the letters which
read from top downward make the
words THE way of the transSreSSor is
hard"
When the reporter arrived a the Jail
Hupp was in section of the hall alone.
having not yet been put in his cell.
Hupp said:
when | had that conversation with
Mr.. McGinty about a month ago / told
you that in time | would tell you all
/ knew about this case. l am now
ready to talk. / have received my sem
tence and / can have no desire now TO
conceal anything.
THE first that I heard of this prop
osition 10 rob Mr.. McGinty was the
night Of the robbery. l had been
drinking that afternoon and when
Ward. Brison and Burke asked me TO
go with them [ did not know when We
left town, what we were going TO do
and when we were out on the railroad
! said: Boys, if there is any shooting
TO be done L will stop right here
Il went out there but L just merely
stepped inside the door. and l suppose
/ ought to be punished for that because
/ was raised right and ought to have
known better, even when drinking.
What I wanted 10 talk about is the
money. 1t has been published that af-
ter the robbery L visited various sa-
looms and houses of prostitution and
spent the money obtained from Nc
Ginty. There is not a word of truth in
this report
1.-THE night of the robbery l went to
my room in the Stem building and
never took but ten dollars from the
house and ] was arrested ten minutes
after l left the house and did not have
a chance to spend that.
Il slept in my room on tick that was
filled with fine shaVings and there was
an opening in the tick or mattress and
I took my part of the money and put
it in that tick and showed il clear up
to the end, thinking il could not be
found.
Just as soon as had been locked up
at the city prison Brison asked me
what ] had done with my money and
] told him / had hidsit in my mattress
1t occurred to me instantly that L had
made mistake for he was taken out of
the cell and the officers, Harry Sutton
and Bedford Woods, went over and
tore the mattress all up and paid the
land lady for il.
''It seems that they did not get the
money. ] never told anybody at that
time where the money was except Bri-
son. The story circulated by the police
that / brought the money up to the
county Jail and divided il with Sheriff
Royse is false in every particular. L
never gave him a cent nor do l believe
he ever got cent of it.
afr l had been arrested | wanted
my attorney to get the money but /
did not have the opportunity to give it
to him. -dcGinty told me when he was
l.
that money and when my attorney
could not get it L wanted McGinty Ia
get it.
Bedford Wood and Harry Sutton
gave me the worst of it from the start.
After I was put in the county jail there
We're two young ladies who used To
come here to see me and bring me
oranges and other little presents, and
the girls told me Harry Sutton went
to them and told them if they did not
stay away from there he would have
them thrown into the prison
II am going to take my medicine like
a little man and when j get out | will
behave myself. OF course my reputa
ton will be injured but will do better
anyhow
County Attorney Davis said last |
night that the landlady at the Stem /
building had reported that between the !
time that Hupp had left the room and !
the time that Officers Wood and SUIT |
ton came TO search the room that n I
real detective had come there and |
searched the room, or at least had gone |
into it. but that she was unable TO give |
q very good description of the man.
Mr.. Davis said it had also bene re- |
ported to him that at the time Hupp /
was arrested and taken to the city
prison that somebody had looked in at /
the windOy and when he saw Hupp in /
that man went to Hupp's room.
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