Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-14

he should call upon the mayor and
tell him plainly that by the action in
dismissing me from the force and
giving Peters Rest immunity he had
played into the hands of the real
murderer of John L. Wright by pre-
venting the arrest of three very sus-
picious characters who were doubt
less implicated in the murder. [ also
suggested that he should hint to the
mayor that this sort of thing if con-
tinued would not look very well when
brought out in court. Mr.. Everett
adopted my suggestion and carried it
| out so well that on the day upon
which this trial was begun these
three men were all quietly arrested
by the mayors orders and taken to
Jail, where the jailer was told to place
them in separate cells and allow no
one to see them except such persons
as he should designate. The jailer
was given to understand that they
were witnesses in very important
case and that it was imperative that
| they should not be allowed to COM
| municate with each other. / knew
that the first thing these rascals
would do would be to try to send
word to Franklin. Permission was
secured for me to visit them, and ]
did so, casually as it were. was
strolling in the corridor, and each of
them recognized me and called to me.
Each of them separately asked me
to tell Franklin of his arrest so that
he could get out-for they never
doubted their chiefs ability to
free them. They did not know what
they had been arrested for. 1 let
them infer that I would give their
| messages to Franklin and then left,
satisfied that they had no commune
cation with each other. The next
| day / returned, and again conversed
with them separately. L told them
| that Franklin was displeased with
them for some reason-in short, that
| he washed his hands of them entirely
and said that they might get out as
best they could. l told Tom and his
| partner that L thought the charge
against them was twO-fold, the at
tempted murder of Irving Warde, and
participation in the murder Of John
| L. Wright; and that l thought Frank
lin saw in their arrest way to have
his crimes showed off on them, and
that he would deny all association
with them. / told the red flannel
shirt man that it had been discovered
| that he had placed in young Wright's
house the pistol with which the older
| Wright was killed; and that there
was a strong case Of circumStantial
| evidence against him as the suspected
| murderer. / told him also that
Franklin washed his hands of the
| case, and was very well pleased to
have the crime fastened on him. [
even intimated that the colonel would
probably be the attorney to prose-
cute them. I assumed considerable
| indigna ton over the way they had
been treated by their associate anG
| leader in crime, and told them that
| had lost all confidence in Franklin,
and would never again undertake any
| transaction with him. Each asked
my advice as to what he should do,
and I told them that the truth was
| not so bad as the case suspected
| against them; l advised them to tell
the truth and in this way to get even
with the man who had SO shamefully
| deserted them. / told Old Tom and
his pal that / had no idea Irving
Warde would try to prosecute them
| if they made clean breast of it; and
L easily persuaded the other rascal
| that the truth was his safest course.
l believe that is all of my story
ITO Be Continued