The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-19
Pathetic Letter to Her Writ
ten After the Latter Had Charged
His wife with the Crime.
A CATTLE RUSTLERs' CRIME
NEBRASKA WOMAN ASSAULTED AND
THEN CRUELTY STRANGLED.
Rope Found About Her Neck, Indf-
eating that She Had Been Hanged
-Other Capital Crimes.

BUFFALO, March 1S.-Clarence and Sadie
Robinson came into court to-day with red
eyes and haggard cheeks, instead of the
merry, half-defiant air they wore a week
ago. Both looked as if sleep had been a
stranger to their pillows, and as if they
had given up hope of easy acquittal of the
charge Of killing Montgomery Gibbs. Be-
hind Sadie sat her sister, Mrs. Hunter.
Police Superintendent Bull was the first
witness. He swore to the confession made
and signed by Sadie at police headquarters
as having been written by District Attorney
Kenneck and sworn to by the defendant.
The statement was read by Mr.. Kenneck,
and was Sadie's story of how the attempt
at highway robbery was frustrated by the
resistance made by Gibbs, and alleging
that Clarence fired all the shots. Super
intendent Bull testified further that Mrs.
Robinson, after making the statement, had
visited the scene of the murder with Mr..
Cusack and himself, shown where the as
sault took place, and where she had made
her escape over wire fences, tearing her
trousers in her flight. The cartridge shells
picked up in the lot back of Van Weeks,
where Sadie said they had been drawn by
Clarence from his revolver, were produced
and identified by the superintendent. His
testimony corroborated that of Mr.. Cur
$1,000 o'
by DISCRIMINATION
A second statement made by Sadie the
day after she had made her written con-
fession of the crime was then put IN evil
dence. 1t was the story Of her life. When
died and she had then gone to live with
Clarence's grandfather, at Mount Vernon,
n. Y. There she met Clarence, and the
objected to their marriage. and q runaway
match resulted. Clarence she said in her
story, gave me a suit of boys clothes and
cut my hair. Then we went to Mansfield,
o., where we were married by the Rev.
e Mc, fell adp IN With some standard theatrical
the road. We travelled through Ohio, and
the show busted We then came to Buff
falo." The story of the crime already re-
lated is here taken up
Mrs. Augusta Church, matron of the police
headquarters She testified to having re-
Clarence, who was then in Jail in Cleveland.
The letter was admitted and read, 1t was
oa. NJ q Dear + H~n is9a hey allowed me to
see the paper for the first time to-day Oh,
G ehar E how CIV eo9 va r yoe say she eha best ! oif fb ins
for you to do is to tell everything, and tell
the truth. 1t will be much better for both
of us. If | can take and serve your SEN
tence, + will do it. for I'm not afraid to die.
and you can take my sentence. which will
probably be a few years at Auburn. Don't
did not. If it happens that you get only a
life sentence-and I pray to God constantly
it will be so-perhaps, after a few years l
can get you a pardon and then we can be
together again.
II love you, Clarence, but l cannot per-
lure my soul-not even for you; but I would
gladly suffer on this earth for YOU. | want
you to become a good man and a Christian,
so whatever happens you can say with me:
"Thy will. not mine, be done Trying to do
right is the only life worth living. o God
is not only very just, but very merciful,
and if we both do what is right ] feel sure
we will be happy again. if not for a long
time. / would never have told a word
about Ii. but you gave it away yourself.
You made the mistake of your life when
you told Bert Snyder Ohe cousin who testi-
fed against them) what happened in Buff
faIo. and. worst of all, you did not tell the
truth about 1t, either. But / will never
cease to pray for YOU, and I feel sure my
PRAYERS will be answered, for He doeth all
things well. Your loving wife,
"SADIE A. ROBINSON"
The evidence of several other witnesses
was unimportant and. at $40 p. M, court
adjourned.