The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
TEN TIMES A MURDERER,
Horrible Confession Made by
Emilio Garcia in a Fare
we'll Letter.
Bitterly Laments That He Could Not
Number an Even Dozen Among
His Victims.

SAN QUENTIN, CAL, June SIN the
execution of Garcia, the Cotton murderer,
yesterday California was rid of one of the
most cold-blooded and brutal criminals
that ever faced a hangman's moose. BY
his own confession Garcia had murdered
ten men, and his dying lament was that
his life was cut off before he could make
the number an even dozen.
Garcia spent the interval between his
breakfast and his death yesterday
in writing O farewell letter to Captain
Edgar. 1t is written in Spanish and tells
an interesting story in an illiterate, RAM
bling way. He frankly confesses toshaving
killed ten men and speaks of his past hope
to have made the number an even dozen
"if God had pc rmitted"
The secret of Garcia's exemplary con-
duct in prison is explained by the fact that
he hoped that some of the witnesses
against him would visit the prison. Then,
according to the sinister expression con-
tanned IN the letter, he hoped to be able to
see them "for just a minute" The letter
speaks also of the jury which convicted
him and uses many expressions which can
not appear in print.
Az ASItOA Ndo pidCCQ III u S6dlGu en-
velope, bearing the inscription in Spanish,
Il shall die very happy. Learn the rea-
son and then you will know" An ex-
purgated translation of the letter itself is
as follows:
JUNE z, 1895.
Testament OF my sorrow, but it is of very
little moment to me, because he who owes
ten and more and pays one remains owing
nine, and have hoped to make up the dozen
If God had given me license. And am always
ready to give my life in payment for the past
ten. If, as have said, the debt is owing, and
especially as spoke of the last one, which was
the only cause, it does not hurt me to pay
when the thing is just
blame only my bad luck for this punish
ment, which was ordered by God, and next to
God by the injustice of the party in uerested
For having kept company with cuckolds and for
having wanted to remove them from the earth
have injured myself. This is the pure truth
And because they were boosters without man
hood, who had great fear of me, they in
jured me.
They may thank their God who did not give
me an opportunity to carry out my intentions.
AS for that class of men would have more pity
in killing dog or coyote than for one of that
kind. After they have originated the crime
they give away him who proves to have been
their friend. What a pity that the earth breeds
such verminl Where are those false promises
they made me? They stopped short only of
absolute abasement to get me into the thing.
You may congratulate yourself Captain Ed
gar) that you did not receive a worse chicken.
behaved myself well in the jail while had
hope OF getting to see one of the blackguards
who accused me If only to speak one minute
with him. This has been denied me, but never
theless do not lose all hopes of completing
the dozen and then receiving the just punish
ment of the gods of this world.
AS for the jury, shall die deeply grateful
for their - - way of judging criminal
and for the highly excellent trial they gave me-
They gave me, under pretense Of justice,
dozen crazy old men, of whom more than four
For that reason they were satisfied with the
testimony of one $3.50 witness. This know
from certain person. am grateful to him,
because he always told me the truth concern
ing what was to happen to me. E. E. GARCIA
The statements in the preceding cor
roborate the testimony of witnesses at
Garcias trial that he often boasted of
having killed several men.
The cause of the long delay between the
death of Azoff and that of Collins proves
to have been that Collins had completely
broken down. The sounds of the preced-
ing executions had shattered his nerves
and dissipated his courage, and a pitiful
scene ensued. At length, however, he was
braced up by stimulants and the exhorta-
tions OF the priests sufficient to enable him
to face his doom, and in the death cham
Der he showed no 81 pns of coJlanse