The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-19

saical tone again ana replied: Motive?
Tt was wfclSedness. 1t was ike this.
When I received my pension got 81 200
in back pay, with which bought hun
dred-dollar carriage and set Of harness.
Ny sister had so and we decided to turn
1t all into property and buy us little
home. which we did. Shortly after this
my youngest daughter, Alice, was mar
ried. The match was all Of my sisters
making. I had nothing to do with II, but
she Immediately began to quarrel with
them and for spite moved her belongings
into the best room, though we offered to
build one for her. When she found out
was going to win the, home to my mar
ried son, she flowed she'd raise hell
She swore awful. She knowed such
things would hurt me more than any
thing else. An! she was cruel. wicked.
God knows tried TO be brother to her,
but she was always lookin' for some time
to hold me to law"
He sighed as II the memory of the oaths
still ranked in his sanity heart
But IL you are not the real Alexander
Jester, by what strange coincidence do
your name and your sisters charge corre-
spond with the name and crime Of thirty
years ago?"
II cannot talk. Newspaper men are as
sassins. They are bounding me to DEATH"
You are preacher"
'Yes; was convicted Of sin near Rich
mond, Ind, in 1858, and have been an or
dained minister Of the New Light Chris
tan church ever since. have led many
souls to repentance and established sew
eral churches. mostly in Texas. My pow
ers as an exhorter were noticed in the
army and the lieutenant of my company
requested the men to listen to me-"
He was never so free as when talking
of his piety and seems to depend on it to
escape the gallows
You have some property"
only my home. I am a poor old man
charged with terrible crime. I am de-
pending on the Lord to clear me. Why.
had l been guilty, he would have struck
me dead in the pulpit for daring to preach
His name"
do you remember being in Paris in
1872"
az cannot talk"
do you remember your attorneys.
He looked up with interest on being
told that Judge Bashaw. had a complete
transcript of the evidence in the case, al
most compromising himself in this reply:
81 do not remember the gentlemen. Here
is letter received last week that may
have some bearing on what you ask
He handed the reporter a short letter
from Major Bristow.
do you remember any of the witnesses
at the preliminary hearing?' The report
er handed Jester the list OF witnesses, in
GLIDING the name of Pleas COPYRIGHT
'Mr. Court right says he rode up be-
hind you at Union Ford on the morning
after the murder was supposed to have
been committed. You, or rather Alexander
Jester. were then driving one team and
leading another. He says you were start
led and frightened and asked him hur-
riedly to unrein the front team. Do you
remember?"
81 cannot talk. never knew Gilbert
Gates or any Of the family. There is
some awful mistake. have been mar
ried three times. First in Henry county,
Indiana. in 1870. to Della Bryan. believe
that was her name. Ny second wife was
Julia Reynolds of Benton, Tex. Both
died. Ny third wife was Widow Hall
Of Tecumseh. She didn't treat me right |
and we were divorced. I have three chill |
dren living and. think, nine dead.
There is no truth in the report that
any of my wives died under suspicious
circumstances. There is money back of
this prosecution and 1t is trying to hang
me. yes to hang me. know nothing%
He had on a Bryan and Sewall button, |
which he said his son had given him. He |
said he was born in North Carolina in
S. years.