The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08

that I have good things to smoke and
eat while I'm stuck in here and the
other places that will follow. Please
do not talk about these other places.
I live in the present and do not believe
in stirring up unnecessary worry.
They're going TO do whatever they are
going to do with me, and I believe in
seeing it through without setting up
a howl I've always lived that way.
There is only one thing that I would
like TO be set right on. That is my re-
lations with women. I have been set
up as using women to help along my
jobs and in violating all kinds of con-
ndences. There is nothing to these
stories I have always reverenced wo-
men, and I could fase a moose tomor-
row knowing that I haVe never done a
single one Of them WRONG.
LOVES HULDA Won HOFEN.
"Hulda Won Hofen. the girl 1 mar
ried. was TO me a person apart from
all the women I had ever known.
thought she was beautiful, golden.
glorious. The lies they are telling
about my dealings with her are the
only things that now hurt me. OF all
else I am Indifferent"
The mention of the girls name had
an immediate effect on Siemsen. and
he began TO pace his cell as though
he were lighting down an overmaster-
ing emotion.
4 want to see her before the end
Of what awaits me-" he continued. L
had planned a new life. with her 1t
was my intention to take her with me
TO New York and live on the level.
Everything was ready for these plans
Of mine when Dabner and our friend
Kearney began TO urge me to do an
other job. 1 was all ready to get out
when they began to plead with me
10 go in for the holdup of the Steiner
street jeweler, Behrend, and rather
than let them think that I wasn't will
ing to help them out agreed to stand
in. This fact is not generally known.
I am represented as the man who led
Dabner to the bad, but I tell you
Notwithstanding that whatever I say
now is OF no use-that I would never
have been IN on that Steiner street
layout We're it not for the pressing of
Dabner and Kearney.
TELLS OF MANICURIsTs.
81 would like to be put right on
another thing That's about the sup
posed attempt of Dabner and myself
TO rob Mrs. Annie Dunphy of her jew
els. Mrs. Dunphy used to frequent the
manicuring parlor run by Mrs. Frieda
Kotter at Sutter and Octayia streets,
and because Dabner and myself used
to go there every once in a while it
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by her diamonds. There is absolutely
nothing to this story. AS I said be-
fore. have never misused a woman,
and Mrs. Dunphy was never in danger
of being robbed as far as I was con-
cerned.
a lot Of wrong things are being
said about our visits to this manicur-
ing perlors. It was not our rendez-
vous, and we simply went there the
same as other men or women-to have
our nails dressed We occasionally
tipped the girls there, but never were
over-intimate with them. One day
Dabner and 1 happened to go there
with camera, and we had Mrs. Kot-
ter and Miss Mildred Melander pose
for picture outside. I stood Dabner
up alongside OF them and then took
the women In two other groups 1
made several prints OF these groups
and had them in g scrapbook at our
rooms on Union street when arrested.
EXPLAINS CONFESSION.
why did I confess after taking such
long chances in welding a gaspipe?
I'll tell you. and it's the truth: When
saw Dabner's father cry when his
boy was brought before me last night
I couldn't stand it any longer. Like
every one else, I have my weak
spots, and that was one of them.
There was old man, heart-broken
over a boy who had gone wrong, blam-
ing me for It Only one thing could
square the boy for all his wrongs, he
thought and that was proving that he
was telling the truth and sticking to
the facts throughout his confession. 1t
looked that way to me, at all events,
and decided TO ease the old fellow as
much as / could and admit everything
I hope / have done some good. l had
no other reason behind my confession
and was quite willing to stick il out to
the end and let the police run them
selves out I'm satisfied that they
never had anything on me until the
boy peached. The boy surprised me in
doing this, but once 1T was out 1 was
willing TO make an end OF everything
after seeing the old man cry. I'm real
" sorry for poor old Dabner."