Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-07
hARSH'S STATEMENT.
The Case of the Ex-TrolIeyman is
 Growing More Sensational.

| turned into a question of yeracitv he tween Sheriff Doherty and Harry Ker- shaw on one side and Marsh on the otner. hershaw has given his case over to his friend, the sneriff, but for what reason is 8 mystery, for ne has alWays been able to paddle his own canoe. This is the more singular be- cause, so far, the sheriff has taken only very minor part in the transac ton, substantially that of an interest ed spectator, while Kershaw has stood out in the broad light as the principal \ actor with Marsh.
 Certain correspondence. he claims. Which passed between himself and Marsh, is in the custody of the sheriff. and this was to have been looked into Dy a committee from the Central Labor unlon Tuesday evening, but for req sons suitable the meeting did not take place Every item in Marsh's alleged statement they emphatically deny. while he on the other hand as em. phatically says their statements are not true. Kershaw says he went to see Marsh at Marsl1's own request to 1 get him bail. Marsh says Kershaw came to him without solicitation on nls part and for the express purpose of get tihg hlm to make confession WhicI would 1mpllcate three of the trolley strlkers, James Rowland, Willis Van denmark and Edward Winnegar. According to Marsh's counsel, he did not state all in his statement which LOOK place between him and kershaw Tn the jail; that, in fact, he omitted tAa vltal part of their conversation on .e l first visit
 Marsh says that scarcely had Ker- shaw stood before him when he told him to raise his right hand and swear that hep would tell the truth. Marsh raised his right hand and swore. Ker- shaw then produced a page of type written matter which he gaye to
 larsh to read. Marsh having done so. hershaw told hlm to sign it. Marsh refused. whereupon Kershaw. he says. made him promises of freedom and eventual release from the charge against him if he would sign it Still he refused to sign it. After some time | spent in talking the matter over. Ker- shaw departed
 Marsh,s next move was 10 send for his counsel, whom he informed of his interview with Kershaw. The lawyer asked him if he thought he could be sworn Dy every man who had access to the JalI, and Marsh said he did not know; that he was taken so much by surprise he did not know what to do l at nrSt, but as he knew Kershaxv rret " well, and presuming that Kershaw was his friend, he allowed himself to De sworn, but refused to sign the paper on any conditions, because he knew nothing about its contents.
 Kershaw first tried to get him to leIl aDout the shooting of the police man, Mendelssohn, but failing in fhaf l switched over to the assault case. Fail- ing in that also, he said that he was sent by Assistant States Attorney AseI- logg, and that if he would make . straight and truthful confession ho would get out of the case bending against him. Failing again he went | away
 Following. is Marsh,s confession mentioned in the Democrat yesterday.
 David Marsh, now confined in New Haven county jail. do hereby state that on March 9. 1904. Harry hershaw came to me in jail and asked me and said that if I would make q statement that Willis vandemark, I'd ward W1nnegar and James Rowland. Wno are said to have got a team the nlgnt that Mendelssohn was shot had taken certain route to get to Forest park at end of trolley line. and that if would swear that these three men were the men who went to that place that night, and would say one of them snot Mendelssohn, he would get me a bond inside of fifteen minutes and take me out of jail, and that KelIogg would | get me a job in one of the factories at Waterbury and the perjury case against me would be dropped at once and l would not be prosecuted. And he said that they had these men dead to rights and that they positively '-~,~w that these three men were there that night. He came again on March 12 and made substantially the same state ments and promises Also saw ne in Waterbury when I was taken up there as witness in Willis Vandemark'g case and again made substantially the same statements and promises told l him on all these occasions that I knew l absolutely nothing about the affair ana that there was nothing that could tell l if I told the truth. He told me that they knew well that I was not there, but they thought I knew something | about it and wanted me to tell
 DAVID c. MARSH" l Sheriff Doherty. who seems to be l spokesman for his friend Kershaw, says there is scarcely a particle of l truth in the vital parts of Mars1l's statement. Marsh bothered the life out of Kershaw to get bail for him because he was his bondsman when first he was arrested. Marsh was not in New Haven Jail the day he says he first saw Kershaw. but was in the l sheriff's office and it was there Ker- shaw saw him first. according to l the Sheriff. The second interview took place in the barber shop in the jail.
 The sheriff says Marsh had consent ed to tell all he knew when he was called to the stand in the Vandemark case. provided the sheriff would have secured him bail by that time. All the evidence to prove Marsh's state ment is false the sheriff claims to have in his possession and that he will produce this when the proper 1 time occurs.
 "No one bothered Marsh about tho assault case" the sheriff says. 'Tt was the shooting of the policeman we were after, because the state had all | .sx1. IA LI..1