The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-25
FRED Mink
RELATES
The Story Of His Al
legged Grievances
NlD II II FOR STEPMOIHER
Ae Came to WalIa WaIa on the In
vitation of a Brother Already

Fred Mink, who left Walla Walla
several weeks ago for Plttshed, llIln-
Mrs for the purpose of killing New
ron Harris and his aged step mother,
Mrs. Adam Mink, and after accom-
,lJghjng his purpose was captured by
= cbariffs' nOsse and lodged in jail,
has told a St. Louis Republic reporter
mis- motives for committing the
crime. His story the first to be pub
Ushed is as follows:
Fred Mink, in Jail here, told today
n detail the story of his double CRIME
and the causes leading up to 1t. rms
j. the way he related it TO The Re
nublc correspondent:
Il went 20 Dakota in August. I9oZ'
and came back in November.
Il went to Alpha. H., to see my
gjrl Ethel Bobbit Her folks are
moi wealthy. Her father was former
Nv a policeman in Galesburg. She
rold me she did not want TO marry
INTO a family that all had a grudge
against her
Il knew my step-mother had told
INV Aunt Kate (Mrs Jake Mink, that
sue WAS IOt uCttHt gin A'i S'At' 49,
10 associate with, and my Aunt Kate
would not let my cousin, Ruth MINK,
write 10 her (his GRID.
Il haven't anything against Ruth
Mink or her sisters. | think as mucn
NJ her as | do of any one.
Il went to Villa Waila in January.
1909. My brother, Eugene, was al
ready there. and he wrote TO me and
2Old me to come out there and let
rhem have the ranch.
My father told me to write to him,
and / told him | would if he would
answer my letter.
i wrote three letters before | got
an answer | knew that my step
mother got them and didn't give them
70 Pap, and while | was there | got
letters from back there. making fun
Of me and what had written to Pap.
Il told my folks there, in Wash
ington, that if | got another one OF
those letters | would go back there
and get even with them if it cost me
my life. | knew that the letters were
some Of my step mothers get up.
Il made up my mind to come back
here when | got my last letter from
home. which was a week ago last
Thursday It was making fun of me
about getting married and told how
they had got rid of me and my
brother
Il bid my uncle Norman Winans,
and my folks goodbye, and told them
] never expected to see them again.
Il told them | was coming back 10
get even with some Of that set.
/ stopped in Quincy. A man who
claimed to be blacksmith there
wanted me to give him 81. He said
he mad a new suit of clothes in the
PaWnshOp and wanted the money to
eer them out | would not let him
nave the money. and | went down the
street He followed me, still want
ING the money. | told him to go away
hat | mad seen too many OF his kind
before. and he got mad, and | threw
back my coat and showed him my
guns was arrested.
After lGac | Went 10 Springfield
ln4 bought my rife.
# bought my ammunition in Spring
6s.G II was z broken lot that is the
reason / 81, 50 much OF it. After
had done ms work | did not care
whether / had any ammunition Left
Hr uu5.
Stays Overnight in schooIhouse.
came ID Mag svilie Saturday
a.ahr cot Jim Brown to take me
1Ut. Ha let me out at tle corner east
III my fathers place.
went from there to Aberdeen
~choolAouse and stayed the rest Of the
ght.
As We were going out says: Jim.
! came back here TO get even with
some: of that d-u set He says
That's the way TO do it, | says:
That is what | am going to do
Il got the two | wanted, and that's
all / give a d-n for. | didn't want to
Kill George French or Bill Harris.
Il started from Washington with
The intention of killing Newt Harris
and my stepmother, and my intentions
never Wavered while on the way back.
II kind of hurts me- but still l
don't know but what | did right.
If l had killed one of the boys who
were after me | would have consider
I'D that murder, but l think God will
Justify me in killing Newt Harris and
my step-mother. l had bought the
gun for that purpose.
uOn | READ mucn OF anything
but newspapers. | never read the
Life of Tracy l heard about it.
but never read very much about it,
When asked what he expected
would be done with him, he said:
If the people that know the way
she treated me and my mother will
stand by and let them handle me for
Il ! don't care"
Wanted to End His Own Life.
When asked why he surrendered. he
said:
was trying to get away from