The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-21

papers. / never read the Life of Tracy
l heard about it. but never read very
| much about it"
| When asked what he expected would b.
| 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 1t don't care =
WANTED TO END
HIS OWN LIFE.
When asked why he surrendered he said:
L was trying TO get away from them so
could Kill myself. l did not want to be
: taken alive and l wanted to get far enough
! away SO that they would not find my body.
| did not want to take my own life. want
| ed some one else to do It. fghad decided to
| Kill myself, that was the reason l wrote
what l did in the book that was found on
/ me. l wrote that Monday
Il was down in the woods west OF Newt
Harris's Sunday morning. l did net see
Newt Harris down there with a gun 1
| went UP through the field and was south of
| the house when Newt Harris came out TO
| the pig pen. l says. Newt, l have come
| back here to get even with you
Il was twenty or thirty feet away from
him when l shot him. on the west side of
| the picket fence. don't know how many
| times | shot him. l ernptied my gun. but
don't know how many shots. l don't know
where hit him. After that 1 jumped over
| the picket fence and started through the
meadow. l never shot at Mrs Harris
shot back over the orchard. II had want
| ed TO shoot her l could have come pretty
near getting her.
Il shot my stepmother through the screen
door. She was sitting at the table. l shot
| through the west door and jumped back
and walked around the house ana met my
father, who came out the east door. | never
| told my father that l was Deputy Sheriff
OIL ~fnt .h md sk,..h S.>r
a long time. l thought some one would
| shoot ME. but they wouldn't do it. l neve.
ate supper at the house. There were men
all around the house when l left. l went
down the road east, and then through the
field southeast. I was talking to John Low
lit out in the road.
Il never talked 10 any one since Sunday
night until talked to Jerry Mink Monday
| evening. Jerry Mink never gave me any
thing to eat
DID NOT EXPECT
TIE BLOODHOUNDS.
Il never knew that there was reward
offered for me- but 1 supposed there would
be- / did not think that they would get
bloodhounds. l put pepper on my shoes.
! had a can of pepper in my pocket. 1
would have put 1t on sooner but 1 didn't
think they would get the bloodhounds
me and knew their faces. / was not mad
al them. guess they were doing what was
right
Il was not drinking when I came to Mays
vile. l drank two small glasses o: beer in
Quincy and that was all. had bottle of
whisky when / came to Maysvil!e. but it
was rei-eye, and was no good, and I broke
it on the buggy wheel. l can prove that
by Jim Brown. I didn't drink any of It.
"Iila Harris told dirty story about me
when | going to school. Her father
took it UP for her and did my father. 1
never said anything to Lula about it, but
told Bill Harris If his father did not take
it back l would get even with him for it.
1 was always joshed about that stozy.
az never had any desire to be an outlaw.
I have no trade and expected to be a
farmer.
1.-The desire to get even with Harris and
my stepmother was so strong that l was
willing to sacrifice everything else for 1t t"