The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-03-12
|. MINDER WRITES A
LETTER To THE PUBLIC.
THE DAWSON TAILOR SAYS He RE-
GRETS MAH0NEY'S DEATH.
Declares in the Letter That He Did All
He Could for Several Months to
Avoid the Awful Tragedy

Isador Minder, the former sDawson
tailor who is TO spend the remainder
OF his natural life in the penitentiary,
has written letter to the public.
In this letter he says he did not want
to kill Andy Mahoney, the tailor whom
he stabbed to death about two years
ago. According to his letter, he did
all he could 10 avoid this for many
months. He says he has walked away
from Mahoney when the latter was
abusing him, in order to avoid DIM
Guilty with him.
In the letter he also denies that he
was the originator of the movement on
the part of several prisoners several
months ago to escape from the Biob
county jail. He says others have been
proven guilty of this charge and he
does not wan to be censured for it.
MINDER S LETTER.
Il wish to express my thanks to
Colonel Cooper and Colonel Herman
Brasch for their kindness to me. L
think they worked harder than any
other lawyers in this state would have
done, and the only thing that troubles
me is God knows | don't see how l
shall ever be able to pay back to them
what they have spent, as they spent
more than they got out of the case.
81 also thank my friends who have
done so many favors for me, with mon
ey or good words in my behalf espe-
cially to the good Mrs. Barnett and
Mrs. Reeves, and the good ladies who
came up on Sundays and gave US pris-
oners the word of God and hope for
better life to come; and they bring us
good books to read.
II also thank the governor and par"
doning board and the judge, solicitor
and iurymen for what they have done
for me. l will say few words about
Mr.. Mahoney. God is the only one
that knows the truth.
II did not wish to kill him, for if |
had | had too many chances in which
| could have done it when he was tan
TALKING me. walked away from him
many times and never said word to
him when he would attack me with his
words, and as | told Judge Free
man when / had Mr.. Mahoney arrest
ed in June, 1900, that [ did not want
him TO fine M. Mahoney, but [ just
wanted him (Mahoney) to let me alone.
Judge Freeman did tine him $40.
am very sorry for what ! have done. l
was worked up and so worried that
did not know what did at that time. |
did not know whether it was right or
wrong until it was too late. l will also
say that l am very sorry about the lit
lie trouble had with the jailer. The
trouble was made on account OF the
Jail breaking on April ID, 1901.
1.-The blame was put on me and my
friends. was not guilty, neither were
NV friends. and one little trouble
brought on another. The saws came
10 Ben Nix He and Jackson Amons
were caught cutting the window bars
that night by Tom Evans and they
told Mr.. Evans that the saws did not
belong to them, and they also told Mr..
Stephen after he came the same. ]
cannot tell who they came from. |
beg pardon to Jailer Stephen for all
the trouble that made him.
II have never had any fear that
they would hang me in the first place
/ did not think | deserved it, in the
second place I. Now as to the place
where am to 60 l shall conduct my
self as good as any prisoner ever did.
IL again thank my friends and my
lawyer and pray God to bless them.
Very respectfully,