The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-16
Aged Parents Of Ed Gill
bert's Slayer Write a
PitifuI Letter.
HE HAD GOOD TRAINING
Declare Saunders Was Not so Bad
as Painted. Blame Bad Woman
For Sons Downfall.

The unreasoning and unquestion-
ing faith and confidence of aged pa
rents in the character of their son,
under the most trying and painful
circumstances was clearly shown by
letter received yesterday by Frank
Nevin of the undertaking firm of
Neyin & Brown.
The letter was written by +. ID.
Sanders and Mrs. NJ. NJ. c. Sanders,
the parents Of T. M. Sanders who was
shot and instantly killed in a dis
reputable resort in the local half
world a short time ago, after he had
shot and mortally wounded Constable
Ed Gilbert, who was attempting to
arrest him on complaint of an aban-
doned woman who declared that SAN
ders had threatened to kill her and
who declared that she feared for her
life.
The letter is dated at Kopperl,
Texas, and was written November ),
and is signed by the parents o, the
dead man.
Throughout is the note O? tender
ness for a wayward son, AMI a cry
of pain because of his tragic death.
There is also protest that the woman
in the case, whom the parents blame
for all the trouble, has been allowed
to go unpunished for her part Of the
tragedy.
The letter acknowledges The re-
ceipt of the personal erects of the
dead man, and expresses the thanks
of the aged writer's for the courtesy
that has been shown them by the re-
cipients of the letter.
II am so sorry that my son killed
man." the letter says, and | am
more than sorry for tie aged mother
and relatives"
/ At the time of the tragedy, many
tales were told of the alleged past
life of Sanders, by men and women
who claimed to have known him for
many years He was alleged by them
to have been desperate of the worst
type, and to have killed number of
men. He was alleged to have been
train robber, bank robber, hold-up
man, highwayman, gun man. and
all around bad character
In contradiction of this, the aged
parents say in their letter:
"This is the only trouble he was
ever in, and had it not been for that
bad woman, and hal he not been
crazed by whisky, he wotlld not have
been in that The statements that
were made to the papers were not
correct. He never was desperate
outlaw, train robber, or dead shot.
'He was raised right here on q
farm and had always been around
here until he went to New Mexico
and went into business there last
January"
A new light is thrown on the home
life of the dead man, by the next
paragraph of the letter, which speaks
of good influences III his home, and
of his own efforts toward right liv-
ing, when he was al home.
81 am his father" the writer says,
"and am II years old. His step
mother is G5 years old and we stand
in this country as good citizens and
good Christians.
"He made a profession of religion
and was baptised in the Baptist
church here when he was 13 years
old, and I could not be made to be-
lieve he was bad at heart.
MAY God have mercy on his soul
is the prayer of his devoted father
and mother.
"I do not want the world to think
that my son was the bad man that
he was said to have been, and had he
not been led off by that bad woman
there would have been no toruble
there. But the woman goes scott
| free to practice her wiles on some
other poor boy and bring him to his
grave"