Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-06-23

we went to Shelby, and I have a state.
ment from the town marshal Of that
place, who remembers me, as we stayed
at the lookup. From there l went TO
Mt. Vernon, on the goth of February,
and that night went to Newark to sea
a party about taking some stuff in case
DID ANY BUSINESS.
then went back to Mt. Vernon, on the
night of Wednesday, and robbed the
store there Scranton Slim was with
me. Then I went back to Newark, and
about daylight l took the stuff out the
railroad and hid it. About daylight l
took some of the stuff up TO the party 7
had arranged with, and he gave me fivs
dollars. AS l came back l met Christie
for the first time in my life. l could see
by his looks and ways that he was on
the road and l talked to him. He
pulled out bottle of whisky, and asked
me if l would have a drink, and l said
yes and took one. From there we
went to saloon and started drinking
and playing cards. l suppose he had
five or ten dollars and had five dol
lars. I stayed there until about seven
o'clock in the morning, and then we
went and got breakfast, down by the
canal. Then I got shaved and my hair
cut, and then l went out the railroad
track and got
THE REST OF THE STUFF
again. 1t was in a valise. took Chris
tie as far as the bridge. I gave some
fellows who were there 'on the road two
dollars to get some alcohol TO drink. |
went back to see my man and he took
the rest of the stuff and gave me four
dollars more and a check for ten dollars
besides. Before I came out Ricken-
baugh, the Marshal, arrested us. We
were locked up and the next day we goS
trial and we got thirty days each for
carrying weapons. At the Jail is where
met Walter JOY, Eli Davis and George
Mcfarland, who swore against us. We
were in Jail until the oath or 25th Of
March, when they took us to Mt Ver-
non, and we were in the Mt. Vernon
Jail until April 18th then they brought
us to Wheeling on the charge of murder.
AS TO the letter sent out from the
Jail, about which Mcfarland and others
had so much to say on the trial.
NEVER SAW IT.
l was told by Christie that he had sent
a letter out to friend of his for some
saws, and he put in the sentence about
blowing a box and shooting a cop on
a getaway but that letter was cop
led before it left the jail, and whether
the copy was the same as the original |
cannot say. The letter, at all events.
was written to make the party to whoZ
it was addressed believe we were in
bad fix, and Christie would have put
anything in it which would have pro-
duced the saws he wanted.
Il will freely acknowledge that l
have been
ABAD SORT OF MAN,
that I was on the road and did a couple
of jobs that | ought not to have done
but did not have hand in the killinA
Of Officer Glenn. | was not in or near
Wheeling at the time, and knew moth
ing about it. | never saw Christie I'M
til the day we were arrested, and am
somply the victim of circumstances
Somebody had to be convicted, and we
were the parties. A good deal Of stress
was laid upon the chalk-marks in the
gas house at Barnesyille-'K-Y TOM
as they were alleged to be. | know moth
ing about them, and they could not have
been left there by Christie for me, for
l DID NOT KNOW HIM
until met him as I have stated, and
cid not pass anywhere near GAINESVILLE
on my way to Ohio. There is no truth
whatever, either, in the story about my
being on the boat house down about
Benwood | was never in Benwood that
I know Of in my life, and most certainly
was never on or about boat house
there.
Much was also attempted to be made
out OF nay answers to certain questions
on the witness stand. At that time l was
very ignorant of the meaning of words,
could neither read nor write, and shrewd
men could make me say almost any
thing or confuse me- The statement ]
have outlined to you is correct and if
could have gotten the witnesses could
easily have proven it to be so at the time
of the trial. but | had no money, NO in
fuence and no friends, and under the
great pressure for a conviction l had no
chance. There was too much reward
money to be divided for a poor devil like
me to stand any show of getting off"