The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-09

stand it any longer, so killed her. ]
was OF course in love with her, but
didn't want to get coupled up, and it
was she that asked me to marry her
and when l refused she repeatedly
threatened to kill me. I was drunk
when committed the murder but that
was no excuse and | only wish that j
had been SO sober that I could tell
better how we'll the work was done
I'VE Virginia niggers when we
shoot, shoot straight, but feared
was too drunk on Saturday to hit the
mark and | am not IN any way sorry
that the bullets went so we'll. She had
been waiting for that for some time
and the only funny thing about it is
that | didn't kill six of the party. On
Saturday | had been drinking heavily
and Rachel had been teasing me. Sew
eral times during the day she asked me
for money and | saw her take the
money and hand it over to her black
and white friends.
This wasn't the first time that she
had done this trick but had decided
to stand for it. After supper I went to
the hotel and went with,three mem bers
of our show into the room adjoining
Rachel's. She was standing in the
hall talking with one of the show PEG.
pie called "Billy." I don't know his
real name. They began to talk about
me and one of the girls called my at
tention to the converse ton. I heard
Rachel say that she was going to kill
me and ran out of the door. Just as
came out into the hall she came to-
ward me and drew a razor. I didn't
wait any longer but began shooting.
| did not look back to see whether or
not the girl was dead and I thought l
was too drunk to shoot straight enough
to kill her.
When left the hotel stopped for
minute and talked to a big fat police
man, and then went to saloon and
got glass of beer. Invent over to the
ferry boat, but on second thought
decided to hide in lumber yard, and
CHM bed up to the top of one of the big
lum Der piles. I stayed there until
after morning, and about half past
five O'Clock | went back towards the
hotel and met man. He said to we,
"That was sad ending to the show
the killing of the girl" Then for the
first time knew that I had killed her,
and I made out of town as fast as pos
sible. You may have thought that
Rachel was all right, but her heart was
blacker than her face, and / would
rather be the murderer than the dead
woman
In his further talk Avery accu sed
the woman of the grossest immortality.
He claimed that she had been an in
mate of the lowest houses of disrepute
in Milwaukee, and that she was con-
1rmed opium smoker. He claimed
that while she had been in Kenosha
she had mingled with all classes of
people, and had openly Haunted her
conquests in his face. This drove him
to the crime.
Avery was willing and ready to re-
turn to Kenosha to stand trial for the
gan police refused to turn him over to
the Kenosha officials, claiming that
they were holding him on another
charge.
1t is just as well that the man was
not brought to Kenosha Monday after
noon, as when the train containing
the officers reached Kenosha crowd
of fully FIVE hundred people surround
ed the station anxious to get look at
the man, and il is feared that any
spark dropped in this finder would
have started riot which might have
resulted in the negro being roughly
handled.
Little credence is placed in the story
Of Avery, on account of the fact that
the officers have not been able to find
the razor which the woman is alleged
to have drawn on him, and none of the
parties in the show testified to the
meeting in the same manner as the
accused man. Avery further claims
that three weeks ago the murdered
woman attempted to poison him at
bottle of whiskey with carbolic acid.
The man narrowly escaped.
The coroner's jury, which had been
considering the murder of Rachel
Davis since last Saturday night, COM
pleted its work last night and brought
in verdict holding Avery for the
crime. The verdict declared that the
deceased had come to ner death through
wounds from bullet fired from a re-
volver in the hands of Dan Avery.
Chief of Police Timme and Night
Sergeant O'Hare, of the Kenosha po-
lice force who went to Waukegan
Tuesday afternoon to bring Dan Avery
to this city on a State warrant to
answer charge of numbering Rachel
Davis, returned home empty handed,
and the self confessed murderer is now
in the Lake County jail.
The Waukegan police officers who
made the arrest refuse to allow the |