The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-26
MURPHY AND
WOODS TALK
TO REPORTER
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nobody in this affair and whatever
happens to me as a result of this, I
am glad I did not end it by killing
Maxwell
Woods lightly referred te his trou-
bic in the Philippines and his subse-
quent desertion and pardon by Presi-
dent Mckinley because of q flaw in
his indictment and trial.
a peculiar circumstance of my
trip from the Philippines is that my
present partner. Murphy, was one of
tn guards that brought me over. !
was sent to Folsom on the 27tn day
Of January, 1902. 1t was eighteen
months to the day when l broke Jail.
After speaking of the escape aud
The Pilot Hill fight, Woods con inued:
we then took 10 the mountains,
that night we broke up the party.
some going by twos and some by
threes. l went by myself. l stayed
around o knowing the countLy, and
made poo pI .gress. / hal a hard
time getting away from Lake Tahoe,
as every trail l took brou,'. Il me again
To the lake.
Finally l struck the railroad track
and followed it into Truckee, getting
there day before yesterday. | arriv-
ed in Reno Sunday night in the early
part of the evening, somewhere be-
teween 8 and Il o'clock. l came in on
a freight train.
Il spent the night in a new house
being built somewhere, l think on the
bridge street.
1T had no room and l got pretty.
cold before morning. l took break
fast at the Palace restaurant and paid
20 cents for it. | then took a look
around town and thought Reno would
be a good place to locate in, it's only
disadvantage to a man in my fix be-
ing the officers.
Il guess it is all off with me, and in
the name of humanity | wish to say
a word for the poor devils that will
be left in Folsom after | am gone.
In the first place the food is so poor
that it will scarcely sustain life. The
tasks are hard and there are little or
no prospects for the future. Were you
there, my friend, and had to endure
what they have to endure, you would
do as l have done and rather suffer
death than submit. All a man has to
do to curry favor with the warden or
other officers is to tell either lies or
the truth, and he will be rewarded
with better victuals and a softer Job.
The decentralization of character in the
prison is what sends most of the men
back there. | think the grading sys-
ten. would tend TO elevate, as it would
give an incentive to the men.
On being asked how Seavis left the
crowd, he said: ''Seavis was not
blindfolded, nor in any manner mis-
treated and | also see by the papers
that Seavis had been accused of wish
ing to kill all the freemen we had
with us. This is a mistake. Seavis
was not listened to at any time, had
nothing to say in regard to such mat
tiers and would have been told TO shut
up if he had.
The reason we wished to get rid of
Seavis was the mark he gave the
crowd on account of his color. We
simply told him to go while he had a
chance"
When asked his hopes for the flu
ture, Woods quoted the following
lines:
Let no block of costly marble
Mark my resting place.
When the lid of the coffin
Hides my pallid face.
Let the green grass grow above me,
Through it the wind shall wave.
/ would not have old friends hereafter
To know my grave.
There is one, and but one only
Who would shed a tear for me
And that is dear old mother.
Whom I've wronged most bitterly.
Il have no hope for the future,
Only one boon do l crave:
That my spirit, like m body,
Rest forever in the g~raven