St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-12-20

out II tney stay 100 long III one.
was little pressed fol, money, and
she had saved $500. 1 had her pat, but |
l couldn't get the money except by |
pretending L had an investment for |
her that was money maker. she
turned over the money, and l took her |
out riding, shot her, and buried tie |
body. She was not very well known |
and was never missed. never heard |
of that matter from that day to this |
Then the last trouble before. this |
was at Ell Paso del Norte. i was |
mixed with girl there, and we used |
to paint things once in while. One |
night her brother caught us together |
in my room and had us dead to rights. |
He was crazy, and came at me with a |
knife. l tried to beat him off with |
chair, and the girl cried to me to shoot |
him, or he would kill me, and she would |
be found Si, out It red on him. Id apd nd
dropped the knife, and the girl jumped
out of bed and picked it up. He was
quiet enough after that, and took him
to drug store and had his wound
dressed. He gave a story Of how it
happened to ward off suspicion, |
promised to marry the girl, and all
was well for the time. left there and
learned afterward that he died from
blood poisoning from the wound.
INTRODUCED TO MISS GENG.
ITO come down to the events con-
nected with the thing that brought me
here, let me see. l was introduced to
Kate Cling in January, 1894. That was
the beginning of our acquaintance, and
1t was at time when had been suf-
fering pretty heavy losses. 1t was
about April l before l was real well
acquainted with her. and then / set
out to get her money. 1 secured off
and on much more than people think
The state did not make It out as much,
but 1 really think on the whole that
secured about 81, 800 from her. That
was right about my playing the bank
With her for partner, and that Chi
cago business. l didn't lose the money
there, and didn't intend to. l never
took any notes nor gave any up to the
time when we fixed up the last scheme
There was no need to do SO, for she
was ready to play and would risk It all.
mo one has placed that matter
right, between that girl and me. I
hypnotized her-not the way you all
call hypnot:sm-but by studying her
and playing right. She was a good
highly educated, and yet wanted to
pretend that she understood things
readily. In that way I could work on
her only through mystery. If l was
mysterious, she would pretend to un-
derstand, because she was too proud
would move to my notion blindly
enough TO suit any purpose. I want
this distinctly understood that, moral
ly, with Kate Cling there was abso-
said that I swore to that in order to
shield her, ard some have said that it
was an agreement made that her
name should be protected, but / say
honestly that all through played the
noble racket with her, and said that
even though 1 was a wild devil I
would not do her a wrong for the
world.
early in the year 1 arranged mat
ters about that mill at Ramil, and the
mil h1lr, q RIO 7
say how, for, as said before, there
is honor among thieves. In regard to
Adry, my brother, when first thought
Of the scheme to do up the girl, |
ali right in some smaller details, al
though he always kept within the pale
of the law. That was all right about
that scene in the office, which he tod
Stewart. That was when l dropped
him. He was too white-livered to suit
me, and had lost my power over him
some way since he was married.
HIS PLANS IN DETAIL.
'Now, about this murder, which is
the principal thing. I wanted a
scheme to get the girls life insured,
had my man Blixt ready, for 1 had
tried him, and thought l could work
him.. There was no paper between
Kate and l UP to the time when pro-
posed a great speculation to her.
told her that had owned $4,000 worth
of diamonds, which 1 had pawned in
New York for $4,000, and l wanted to
get them out of the mans hands and
give her the benefit, to square with
her for the debts l owed her. She did
not see how l could do that, so told
her. Said L:
Now, here is the way we will Go 1T
You can get your life insured for
$4,000, and make the policies to me. 1t
will cost you but about $500, and can
take the policies and give them to this
New York man as security for the
diamonds, and he will give them up to
me, then 1 can turn them over to you
I'm order to convince her that she
could get her life insured 1 made IN
quiries, and she did the same, and after
a time she agreed to the proposition.
Then there came the point about the
insurable interest, and was up d
stump for time Then hae ive ehongn6 na ndtes OF
and pretend that she was borrowing
money to increase her business with
This I had to do in order that the IN
terest might not be attacked by her
up those letters from me to her and
from her to me, wrote and had the
small notes signed, and then the big
ones. She would not accede to this,
over to her some money, and | rather
liked that idea She said she ought to
have some security for the notes she
gave, in case the diamonds did not ar
rive, I liked the idea, because 1t could
give me witnesses to paying over the
money.
Then we arranged for exhibiting
money in restaurants, and all that
which was brought out on the trial.
Then came that day in the Oneida block
when the money was paid over. The
public is curious, of course, about that.
Well I really paid over to her about
lyvf tod oh n n
him to say there were big bills there
when we went into the elevator. OF
those bills, $1,000 was good money and
the other counterfeit. 1t was In two
large envelopes just as the elevator boy
testified. That part about her finding
the money short and going into the
next room to count it was right. When
the notes were signed and the policies
during the passing around of papers,
it was easy for me to take the money
from the envelopes, and put in papers
instead. l hid the money under the
blottter on the table until she was
gone.
':It had been agreed that the enyel-
opes should be deposited in a safety
deposit vault and that they could not
or else they failed to come. and she
should return me the money, and I
, the notes to her. | made mark on
the envelopes, so that I would know
IL CH6y were opclCu, anu lliCil oliO
went away. That was all there was to
that scene. All those deals about her
trying to rent a store, my telling Wat
erman about going to lend her money.
and her telling Waterman, was for a
purpose. It was a part Of the play.
| GETTING HER OUT OF THE WAY.
"Well, this done, came the part of
getting her out OF the way and there
Blixt came in. 1 hypnotized him all
right, but of course no court would
recognize that. When 1 used to talk
to him he would say everything said.
For instance, I said to him, 'Blixt,
what do you think of that girl up
stairs, that dressmaker? and he would
say, What do you think of her?' I
think she ought to be out in the grave
yard I would answer, and he would
say, I think she ought to be out in the
graveyard worked him up by talk
Ing crime to him, until he was more
crazy for blood than 1 was. He wanted
to get at her at once after the night
came when he was to do the deed. Most
Of the things he told were truths, but
he lied oonsidera hiv to easa himself