Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-14
STATEMENTS ny LETTER.


Paris, Tex, Sept. 3.-(SpeclaD.-
following letters We're written by ChaS.
II. Key, who was hanged here to-
day, during his confinement In jail at
BOnham and given to fellow prisoner.
The first IL TO n woman whose affec-
lions he Is said to have estrayed from
her husband. She formerly Lived In
Hunt county, and is several years older
than himself. Both letters are YER
batlm copies:
My Dear Eli; 1 know you would
due eny thing in the world for me But
| am aired huney II is too late for you
to due me eny good know but god
knowes that l am not gilty OF the
Crime that / am Charged OF but My
Der ellie | du woosh cud be with you
always / know you air the Best frind
have got on the face OF the erth but
Broken / cannot write any more so
Good BY | dreamt you come 10 the
Bars and shok hands me Please keep
this until after leve heare l would
like to talk to you II had time l am
as ever yours.
CHAS. II. KEY.
Bonham Jail 1876, 95 this Is the pub
lie at Large | was arrested last July
the 3 day. "a on Il Charge OF murder
and ] have Bin In Jail from that time
up TIL date | was convicted April the 10
% for the murder Of Sith McGlotnlm
inns NsllulHt am iluN EullkN VI us JONI
Cox cud not Bee found he IL the man
that murdered Smith McGlothlin If he
was murdered MS l did not see him
murdered nor did I know of him Bee
ing murdered until / was rested | have
got this 10 say that l am not guilty OF
when the World vii know hoo did due
1t and II viii not due me
no good after l am gone
| want to make this statement MS /
am going to tell the truth all the way
thure this statement thare is some
thing that did wrong that was sell
Ing the Wagon and teeme and l aut
to have bin punish for that Crime
and not for a Crime that | am not
guilty of and l know that God al nifty
Will punish the 10 men that set on my
jury that convicted me and the men
that Soarn Lilies ganst me know this
porters Come to Die thare will have
to give an count of all this that is II
the Bible is true and think II is and
then the truth Will be told all men
that sead or heared of this due not
take poore mans Life away unless
you know that he Is guilty one Kom as
You all will Lar az you see or here OF
me beelng hung, do not think you
viii see or heare of II am going sedle
that part of II my selfth and will save
you the trouble OF it and save the U s
that nifty 5000 dollars that she gives
to spring the trap on me have got
this TO say II | was giltey OF the crime
that am charge of I wuld go up like
a man and bee hung and die as Brave
as any man then | wud cal II Bravry
am looking to bee taken Rack 10
Paris Mt eny day and am prepared to
meet that day Long to see to see that
day for l am diem Little by Little and
sooner the better fore me this is furst
time that I ever was In jall and II /,
the furst time waa OF eny Crime /
have charge OF nting and gambling
| but never did Commit eny CRATE Crime
I In all OF my Life and l can say this
with n true hartknow meant kind
] harted Persons to due one thing that
Is II he or she viii due II with a free
! Good win and I do not want eny one
to have eny thing to due with It that
IL eny may be realated to me In cny
way shape or forme Less 1t is my
mother and farther and frank heffner
and his fsmloy my father and mother
lives In Midway Mississippi and frani,
heflner lives IN South Prairie STEPHENS
I County Texas hearc - what l want
dun ia Put this on my he'd nord this:
| l am not
Guilty
OF this
Crime that
nm charge