The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-04-18

WEIGH and waldrom. SO if they saw
orr faces they would surely remember
them. That must account for Weicn
win Roberts shot me-" The BOY
never had a gun at all. After these
two were taken out, I and German
went and WEIGH looked at m
face. WEIGH said, You were there on
the car" He said nothing to me, n
as they were taking us out / said to
the sheriff, THAT man did not identity
me-" So he says, Get back where
you can be-" So / made myself more
conspicuous than Roberts, but what
was my object? I knew / did NOT
shoot that man, so of course took a
chance of him saying I was not there
at all. / said to him, Take a good
look at me, partner, and be sure about
it." He said, "You was there; you
shot me, too" I say I did not shoot
that man; any fair minded man can
look into the matter and see that the
actual murderer of Jack WEIGH, T. f.
German, stands a good nance for a
communication of sentence. There Is
where In people of this state would
make a great mistake. He IS a muir
derer at heart, and confidentially told
me he had put a dozen men out of the
way the same as he put Jack WEIGH.
He also tried to Kill me up in Win
nemucca.
I do not make this confession to
get back at this man. but I will not
allow myself to hang when ! am not
the actual murderer. without Expos
ing the whole matter. Go~man had
a recommendation for mercy brought
to him by the jury. They never
would bring it in now IL they heard my
story. He or Sevner never would
confess to their crime n save that
little boy Roberts. 1t was u mis-
fortune to have the man say we shot
him and all that KEEP; me from max
ing a confession after my arrest was
the talk of these other men, making
me believe our chances were good for
an accuittal. I stood it out with them,
but as everything has been thrown on
my shoulders 1t makes me feel con-
tented to expose this matter, regard
less of my w fate.
The whole case is considerably mixed
up, but as this is a true version or
the whole affair. it will no doubt throw
aside all doubt as to the guilty party.
Now / had better go back to h time
the train the murder was committed
on arrived in Lovelock. We left the
train there and went over behind a
stable. putting our guns in a hole
along with the watch taken from
Townsend, and from there over to the
Owl saloon, where we were arrested.
I cut this short here. There is no use
In reviewing that part of it. SEWER
had three pieces Of foreign none
on him, taken from Townsend. We
were bound over OF a charge of rob-
berry n taken to Winnemucca. When
taken to the Jail there was a man in
there who gave his name as Hutchi-
son. Sevner and German knew him
well. They told him of the guns being
cached in Lovelock, and as he was
going out in a day or two he went
there and got them. Constable Regain
of Wadsworth arrested him and he re-
ceived a forty-day sentence for car
rying the weapons. He was brought
back to Wlnnemucca and took the
stand In our behalf. testifying that he
received the guns from three men
twenty-five miles eas of Wadsworth.
He also had the watch taken from
Townsend, but had got rid of 1t by
placing 1t up the sleeve of his under-
shirt and giving II to a prisoner In
the Reno jail. Those guns he had are
the ones that the murder was COM
mitted with. and in regard to the let
ter sent to william Bonnifeld from
Truckee saying us men were innocent.
that was some tramps who were
friends Of German and Sevner. Now
as / have made a truthful statement
throwing aside all doubt as to the
guilt of US men. / ask the officials of
this state and also the law-ab'ding
citizens to consider the way l make
my confession and how deeply ! feel
for the wrong l have done; my inten-
tions were never Of ever committing