Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-26

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up the street we had just left AS
they went into the hotel we contin-
ued our way. At the end of the bridge
l met my Waterloo. Miller was ahead
and the last l saw, of him he was
falling over the end Of a porch of what
they tell me is the Salation Army Hail.
About that time l had some troubles
of my own in the shape of Deputy
Sheriff Maxwell.
Nov that it is all over 1 am glad
that it turned out the way it did
nae killed nobody in this affair AMI
whatever happens to me as result of
this / am glad l did not end by killing
Maxwell"
The interview with Woods brought
out the following:
Woods lightly referred to his trou-
bles in the Philippines and his sub
sequent desertion and pardon by Pres
ident Mckinley because Of the flaw
in his indictment and trial.
| "A peculiar circumstance Of my trip
from the Philippines is that my pres
ent partner, Murphy, was one of the
guards that brought me over. was
sent to Folsom on the eth. day of
January 1902. 1t was eighteen months
to q day when | broke Jail
! After speaking of the escape and The
Pilot Hill fight Woods continued:
We then took to the mountains
some going by twos and some by
threes. l went by myself. | stayed
around not knowing the country and
made poor progress. | had a hard
time getting away from Lake Tahoe
as every trail l took brought me again
to the Lake.
Finally l struck the railroad track
and followed it into Truckee, gettipg
there day before yesterday. | arrived
in Reno Sunday night early in the ev-
ening., somewhere between and IL
o'clock. l came in on a freight train.
Il spent the night in new house
being built somewhere, l think on the
bridge street
1T had no room and it got pretty
cold before morning l took break
fast at the Palace restaurant and pay
ed 25 cents for it. | then took look
around town and decided that Reno
would be a good town to locate in, the
only disadvantage to a man in my fiS
being the officers.
Il guess it is all off with me, and III
the name of humanity wish to say Z
word for the poor devils that will BIZ
left at Folsom after | am gone II
the first place the food is SO poor th.,1
it will hardly sustain life. The tasks
are hard and there is little or no pros
pect for the future. Were you there
my friend, and had to endure wha
= they have to endure, you would have
done as have and rather suffer dealt
than submit All a man has to do u
curry favor with the warden or Othe
D officers is to tell either lies or tn,
u uCI, dlu uO Will Uc ISWdIucu VIII
5 better victuals and softer job The
T decentralization of. character in tn,
prison is what sends most of the mel
n back there. think the grading system
e would tend to elivate as it would Civ
q an incentive to the men.
o On being asked how Seavis left tn
n crowd he said: "Seavis was not blind
y folded nor in any manner mistreate,
e and also see by the papers that Sea
st Wis is also accused of wishing to Kill
all the freemen we had with u.s. Thi
It lis mistake. Seavis was not listene
g to at any time, had nothing to say il
n regard to such matters and woul'
d have been told to shut up if he had
el The reason we wished to get ri,
Il Of Seavis was the mark he gave tn
d crowd on account of his color. w
1t simply told him. to go while he ha
Y a chance"