The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-02-05
HIS LAST STATEMENT.
Continued from Fourth Page.

God a set OF Infamous scOundrels ina
has ever been organized in any civilized
e country. Amy intelligent person, es
e pecially without prejudice, can see tha
3 my conviction was based on suspicion
without scrap Of tangible evidence
} and the whole nation ought TO b'
I shocked at the injustice that a pool
r man gets in the courts. II is impossible
for poor man without money to gel
justice any more. They will convict 0
poor man on general principles and pub.
lie sentiment, and prosecuting attor-
ney's made up evidence.
The people were sharpened against
me and poisoned by incredible stories
which sprung up from nowhere and
spread like wild fire, and were eagerly
accepted and implicitly believed. 1t bore
no marks OF authorship, il was accom-
panied by NO proof. Yet intelligent peo.
pie drank il In eagerly and loaded their
tongues with falsehood, and spread it to
everybody that they could get to listen
to them with their hearts content.
feel sorry for those people that will
sit around their fresides with their
children and pick their neighbors To-
pieces, with rumors that they hear and
stories without a foundation for their
truth. No wonder a man with money
now.a-days can convict an innocent man
with ease. All they have TO do is to
give the prosecuting attorney and the
police money, and they will and can
get all the men that they want to go on
the witness stand, TO wiliully and do
deliberately swear an innocent mans
life away with their lying tongues. Yes,
for only a few dollars. Indeed you can
find such people all around you with
ease II you will only look for them.
The people Of the United States seem
shocked over the Dreyius conviction in
France, but they would act with more
common sense II they would only look
after the injustice that poor man gets
in their own courts and God free
country.
! have given you the truth, and the
names Of the parties that have taken an
innocent mans life away, and the day
will come when the sons and daughters
Of the prosecutors will have cause to
blush.
] ask the people in the name OF God
never again to hang u man on circum.
stantial evidence. For Gods sake, avoid
hasty decisions and errors. have to-
day rs much right TO have my liberty as
any man that ever walked upon this
beautiful earth, but am cut down in
the prime OF life on circumstance and
hasty public sentiment.
| honestly believe that the murderer
OF Ray Sink will come to light some day,
and my name shall bee clear Of the false
charges that have been placed against
me. My heart aches for those people |
who have wronged me falsely, and
ask them In the name Of God TO go on
their knees and ask God TO forgive them
OF their sins. You can have my sym.
pathy, and forgive you, but God can
only help you, and not mankind. God |
have mercy ON your poor souls. You
stand in worse place today than do.
can die with clear conscience, and |
am ready 10 meet my God. but you false
witnesses are not, You are murderers
In the sight of God aud Justice. can
easily forgive you, but beg of you to
make your peace with God.
IT'S hard TO bear unmerited reproof,
To live life misiudged, misunderstood,
To see our once warm friends now stand
More credulous of whispered III than
good,
'ris hard when fate eylrons us with
wrong
And slander speaks untouched by sense
OF ruth,
And those that blamed us know but
half the truth.
This We must bear, assembling with
the fear
That holds the same subdued in patient
thmll,
clear
Wen dream Of sunshine though the
shadows fall
The i ght must shine at last be Of good
cheer,
Our wrongs shall righted be, for God is
over all.
Kind reader l wish 10 God that / had
time 10 90 over all OF my case, but have
only n few more hours 10 live and have
letters to write, so | haven't time 10
write more. have tried to make what
have written clear 10 you, and have
given the names OF false witnesse., and
when the murderer OF Ray Sink comes
10 light, you shall know the men who
are responsible for an innocent life.
Kind reader, am not afraid To die. /
IAN walk 10 the gallows, but believe il
Is my duty as AN innocent man to defend
my life before man and God. | have
lone no crime 90 die for lam innocent
II the charge that has been placed
against me, know nothing whatever
II that crime and thank our Heavenly
Father and that am innocent Of such a
Iced. Aud believe il is my duty 20
man and God To allow no man 20 take