Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-06-30

c.~N~ ~o~@% U~~~s~*H&
tu5uss b do DO. When Gov. Stanley
refused six weeks ago tried for ths
Inst time to commit suicide by hang
mi nySalf In the cell. and would have
succeeded had not the handkerchief
Broken.
.sThsrs Il no insanity about Il Il
doesn't pay me to live. have no
home any more: have none 10 30 to
II pardoned out. have not the slight
est desire to live. but would prefer to
be legally executed sooner than COM
init suicide. I have . great suic!dal
inclination at times and npd It hard to
throw Il on"
''Of late, since the publication OF my
last request to be executed (the re-
qneste made to the two former gov
errors were not made public), am
getting letters from many people urg-
ing me to live and not give up. A
number OF ladies interested In thcoso-
ply have written me that they are In
terestAd In nae. Some write that they
are going TO try and get me pardon.
don't want pardon. Life has been
q failure WITH me. and am getting old
and want TO die"
Al this time Deputy Warden
Thompson said: What II l should
come to your cell some morning and
say: Taylor Cook. here II your death
warrant. properly signed: come on.
everything il ready"
Turning to the deputy and boxing
/ A}vvs L. ~ N~na ~. old ~1o-
Wet replied: It's more acceptable
than pardon. ] am ready TO die.
would not pay 4 nickel TO get out
don't want TO be par1oned and turned
| out ! would not accept . pardon I'M
Kiss the state furnished me a home
for the rest OF my life would sooner
be here than In an asylum. am old
now. and II the state had . right to
pull me here II has . right to furnish
me home.
Il applied to three governors TO sign
my death warrant When l FIRST APP
| piled. fve years ago. Coy. Morrill, csme
over from Topeka TO see me. and We
had = long talk. He talked TO me In
. Christian way, and urged me to be
cheerful. On bidding me good-by. he
said nothing would induce him to sIgn
my death warrant. and under no cir
cumstances would he have ma hung.
Coy. Leedy did not pay any attention
to my letter.
This Is q very sad life. Nothing
breaks the mono;ony. i, was . great
blessing TO me when was changed a
/ few weeks ago and placed In the new
twIne plant, busy place. where one
can hear the machinery run
From this Cooks mind turned TO his
wife and crime. Il was raised 10 be-
lieve In God and divine ruler" he
said. There 10 90 justice. and ! am
rather doubtful about these things
now have lost confidence In hui
manity.
My wife deceived me. was in an
asylum, and she had me sent home
Some friends warned me. She told me
she loved me, and | was satisfied. and
would not have listened to the whole
state of Kansas TO the contrary. She
got me 10 put my property in her
name. az she wanted it: then she turn
| cd on mo and told me to go: that /
| was fraud. | was driven mad. and
wanted to XIII her and myself also. I
| planned to XIII her. and went into a
| hardware store and looked at guns
| and knives. but turned away from
them: / could not use them. al l had
/ never laid violent hands on her." (He
/ killed his wife with an ax.l
Here Cook broke down and shed
tears about his wife. He said in =
| broken way: Il loved her, In spite OF
decciving me. ! dream about her al
ways: think OF my wife constantly.
! can't tell why | killed her. In
tended to kill myself also. Was not
responsible then: now its terrible
when l think I killed her"
The convict, dead to the world. who
talked In this way, Ia suffering great
anguish for taking the life OF the
| woman he loved. when At time he
and his relatives hold. he was not re-
sponsiblc, and now. while rational, his
mind constantly dwelis on the terrible
deed. and he Ia tortured 10 that death
In any other form than BY suicide
wns,td h. = cou fnrf tn him