The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-23

City. little while afterward. Then 7
picked ne Hunts pocket and got n
Ouhch OF money. I got into all kinds
OF scrapes from that time on. I went
ny a number Of different names. some
times | was called Bill Sly sometimes
" W ililam Cody Then I was known as
uu-hahd jim Tom Lang, William
Hartigan' and Bill Ross.
Il went to St Louis and there was
mixed up in a number Of cutting
ScrapeS- They were generally strau-
gers, and ! don't know who they all
We're ] know I broke off two knife
blades in different men.
one night ] went down on Sixth
street looking for trouble. Three men
Jumped me. and J cut one Of them. 7
thlnk ne died. Another one Of them
cut me on the neck and I was bleeding.
was about 20 years old then. While T
was gong away I met a young fellow
ana II struck me all Of a sudden a way
10 get out Of being caught 7 asked
MN FOR the loan of his knife and made
a pass at my throat
1t was rather dark. and he hadn't
noticed the blood until ! made the mo-
ton TO cut myself. He yelled that I
was trying to commit suicide They
took me TO the police station: a doctor
was called and he fixed me I'D. and T
was sent away. OF course. gave a
different name. and they never sus-
pected ne Of being mixed up i'm the
cutting affair.
Got the Mans Roll.
Not louS afterward was at Bowl
Ing Green in a saloon. when a man
came i'm who wanted 40 pIav Doo1 for
so corner 7 had some money then.
and l agreed 10 play. He pulled a roll
out. and ! saw also that nc had six
shooter. / made up my mind that ne
WAS my 'lntuU.' / had that roll and
SIX shooter before morning"
Well what became of tho man.
Frank" asked the guard.
Oh. they picked him up" was tho
reply.
a little while afterward I was Iiy-
ing az place called Roses ranch. in
Hannibal. No, with a girl there There
was another fellow, Murphy. there. too.
who was married to a woman. One
night there was three fellows came
there 10 see the two girls. We had \
mlX-up and there was shooting on both
sides. We both cmptied our guns The
last shot 7 took ] saw one fellow fall
into the pig pen. and I suppose killed
him. Then 7 made a getaway and went
70 the territory, where I Joined the
Dalton gang. ! quit them just before
Bill Dalton got killed. and joined the
Starr gang. I quit them just before
they were broken up. I did TWO years
i'm jefferson City for grand larceny and
embezzlement. under the name of Rose
Was Married Twice.
My first wife I married in 1895. Her
name was Ann Holman. NV second
wife's name was Maud Morris: that is
the one [ killed. l had one child by my
first wife. Frank p. Rose. same name
as mine. He viii be years old May .
Her family was on to NE. They tried
TO chase me away. One night her IA
Their and two brothers waylaid me and
beat me up pretty badly. Shortly q #
erward / took a car. intending to kill
the three Of them. For some reason or
other, ] took the wrong car. and in
stead of getting around TO their house
I got in the suburbs before noticed
where I was. I had To walk back.
always thought that there was some
fate that kept me from doing this job
and saved me to kill my wife.
From the time my first wife and I
separated until I married my second
wife. / was I'm all kinds Of jobs At
one time, in 1899. or Whereabouts. 7 had
been drinking three days. l did not
know what ] was doing during that
time but when I came to and put my
hand in my pocket found there a wo-
mans left hand. ] didn't know how it
got there hut suppose II must have
been cut Off when alive because there
was some tobacco in my pocket, and il
was stuck on the wrist where the
blood was.
II was scared, and could not mag
inc how il could have got there. I
wrapped It up in a piece Of paper and