The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-19
GORDY TELLS NEW STORY
Denies Making a Confession, Be-
cause He Is Innocent.
NEVER SAW THE DEAD WOMAN
Full of Hatred Against the Law Of
ficers- Says He Ran From The
Detectives Because He Thought
They Wanted Him on Account of
His RascaIities I'm Washington.

Georgetown, Del, May 19.-The rumoI
that James 81. Gordy, the murderer, was
preparing a confession was denied by
Gorly himself When asked regarding his
proposed confession, and what led him to
commit the deed, he replied:
why, never saw tnat woman i'll my
life until / saw her picture in the papers
The whnle business was Il plot against me
i think that enemies of mine in Newark,
\. j., where | was in tile picture busi-
hess, must have got man TO marry this
woman under my name, and bring her
right down here near my home and muir
der her. Then ttorney Gene raj White and
his detectives did the rest.
oh, l want to tell White and them de
Jectives what 1 think of them before the
whole crowd on the scaffold. They twist
ed everything against me Why, that hand
bag they found in my room belonged t.
my wife, " no died at my home three Years
ago, after childbirth. 1 had three doctors
with her TO save her; yet they say kille j
her.
Then the shoes they measured the foot
prints with on the river bank. They took
raund-toed My shoes thatI wore home and
had on were pointed toes. Yes. L ran
when the detectives were after me- because
l had heard there was a warrant out for
me for some trouble had in Washington,
but l did not eXclaim that | did not hurt
the woman That was a lie. And that
ring they found. and thatthe dead woman :
sister swore to. boughton Rawley street
FittsburE. last winter for girl in Bridge.
vile, but it was too small COR her finger
andI keptit ever since.
That furniture 1 bought on Twenty
second street. New York, and paid for it,
l wanted to go on the stand at the trial,
bet my lawyers would not let me. They
made me dress and look the way | did
like a tramp. l had good clothes and /
wanted TO shave up and put them on, but
they said 10
Il would have said guilty. too, if
had been on the jury after that kind Of
evidence. Yes; / came down on that even
ing on the train, as they sworc. and got Off
at Milford. / always get off there, and
drive to my home, but as God is my Judge
/ took no woman out of Milford.
why, they say / murdered that woman
=
money? l guess not"
And here Gordy really chuckled and
added:
''Nur viii they ever"
He continued to walk up and down the
cell and talk, denying everything. He de-
clared he never saw the minister who
claimed he had married him. THAT must
have been the plot. ne said. Some man
called himself Gordy and knew me-
He denied that he had ever married any
Of the women W no claimed to tie his wives,
and ended 10y saving:
Now I am not afraid TO die. / expect
to die, and am anxious for the day to come.
Every day brings me nearer my Lord. He
accepts me. He knows the truth. ] want
to go TO the scaffOld | have no confession
to make and viii make none Why, n
newspaper has offered me big money to
confess, but / tell YOU / can't 30 it, but
! do want to tell Mr.. White what l think
Of him
Sheriff Johnson is in bed sick and has
teen fora week. but he has Gordy's every
movement watch ell night and day by
faitAful guards. He is determined that
he shall not have any opportunity to eS-
cape.