The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-23
SLAYER OF HIS WIFE
DIES ROASTING OF
MANY FOUL CRIMES

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burned il in the cook stove. My
| mother knows about this; you can
prove it by her. ] watched the papers
for some time to see If anybody was
missing, but / couldn't get any trace
| Of who 1t was.
Gave Fatal Dose of Choral.
In St Louis, not long afterward,
! got hold of a galoOt that looked good
| TO me. 1 gave him some choral and
beer and dOped him. The next morn
ing they picked him up on the street.
He had scar on his temple that was
supposed TO have come from a fall. /
| went to the mOrgue TO see. and il was
the same sucker that 1 had doped.
Il used TO use choral generally to
I get rid Of the women that ] got mixed
| up with. My play was to get hold of
a woman who was a decent looking
| girl, fix her up, and put her in the
way of n man who had money. She
would get to him and get all she could;
then we would make "A getaway to-
| Sether. When we had spent the money
! l would ditch her. Sometimes I
! couldn't get rid of her easily, and then
| L would make way with her"
J How could you do it without be-
! ing found out?" asked Mr.. Pugsley.
on" said Rose, that was easy.
! All you had TO do was TO give them
! a little choral in some beer until they
] got unconscious, and i'm day or 50
/ the body would be found i'm the river.
and nobody would know anything
| about the drug
! How many women did you make
! way with that way asked the guard,
! five, did you say"
| "Oh, more than that" replied Rose;
/ that wasn't a marker"
Wouldn't Tell Woman's Name.
Mr.. Pugsley went after Rose again
/ yesterday morning to get him to re
! peat the names of the women he had
| killed. Rose was just starting in To
give names. dates and other details
when there was an interruption, and
! he refused to talk.
Resuming the narrative Thursday
] Rose stated he had been arrested as
suspect when the bank in Hot Springs,
! Ark, was robbed Of $4,000, but was re-
! leased through lack of evidence.
What did you do with all the money
/ you made from time to time?" asked
| the guard.
20. I'd give it to any poor sucker
! that needed it," was the reply
II never had a partner who would
| stay with me-" he went on. When
ever they threw me down I always
| 'ditched' them. I had friend named
! Ted Murray doing five years at the
! federal prison at Alcatraz, near san
J Francisco, and / fixed up a deal to
get him out They were in the habit
/ of taking prisoners out under guard
/ to work outside. l was TO go with
my partner 10 where they We're work
( ing, and the partner was TO attract the
attention Of the guard while 1 knocked
| his block on
What did you mean by that?"
asked the guard.
Il meant to kill the fellow"
THAT wasn't necessary to make the
! escape possible. Was it,
Dead Men Tell No Tales.
by Cod, I went on the theory that
dead men tell no tales. Well. my part
ner fell down on me. His body was
found floating in the bay. / 'ditched'
him.
Il turned a lot of tricks in San Fran
cisco that weren't honest.
My wife-that is. my second wife
knew about my jobs. Whenever there
was a man picked up i'm St Louis dead,
she'd say to me: That's some OF your
work last night She knew better
than to talk when anybody was
around. She would always wait until
we were alone.
My wife was still in st. Louis when
7 was in san Francisco. / was sit
ting one time in Kelly's saloon in San
Francisco. when l began to think
about her. 1 made M my mind TO
quit this life and write TO her that If
she'd been true 10 me I'd get her out
here and quit and lead a straight life.
I got a job or a ranch at $500 a year.
and sent her some money. She came
out and we lived together happy as
two kids for about three months Then.
one Sunday night she told me what
she lad done i'm st. Louis while I was
away. She admitted she had been out
with about fifty men, and that a man
named Henry somebody had kept her
and had gone 10 the train with her and
kissed her goodbye. Then it was all
of again"
Decided to Kill Wife.
Rose then went on to relate about
his coming to ogden and then 10 salt
Lake, declaring he had tried 10 get the
woman TO leave him, but that she had
refused Finally he made up his mind
to kill her. and told her he would. He
kept his word, and for this he had
been sentenced TO death.
u always Kept my word" ne said
Il never broke my word i'm my life
IT l said I'd Kill a man. Ia Kill him
He always got all he had coming TO
him"
Rose declared it seemed as Il some
fate had kept him from being caught.
although he was guilty of so many
crimes. He kept count in 1892 ard
found that h had committed thirty
two holdups during that year. He had
been arrested on suspicion a number
of timeg. but nothing was found on
him except money and no was let GO
for lack Of evidence He had played i'm !
luck hy leaving the Dalton gang and
later the star gang just before they
were cleaned out. Only two men had |
ever got away from him. he declared |
1T seems strange" said he. that !
after oil the women I got away from.
J never could get away from this one. |
To save my life, 7 couldn't get away
from her until l killed her"
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