The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
HAS NO REGRET.
William Hill Relates Why He
Killed David Alexander.
Saws Dave Can't Break Up Any
More Homes Now.
COFFEYVILLE HORROR
COFFEYVILLE HORROR
The Slayer Sorry That Divorced
Wife Was Wounded.
The Woman in the Case Tells OF
the Night Shooting.

Coffeyville Kan, Aug. 10.-I stooo
a. as 1org as 7 could. and 1 don't care
what they do with me now" SAID VIII
liam Hill. slayer of David Alexander
In the city Jail here.
THAT man Alexander commenced
making trouble between me and my
wife within six weeks after we were
married. and within five months we
we're separated. He has tried every
time he could to tantalize me into
fight with him. 1 could stand 1t no
longer. and when he and she came RID
ing down the road in the moonlight
last night with their arms around eacn
other / knew that my chance to XIII
him had come. and 1 used it. know my
life is ruined. but I don't care. III go
TO prison the rest of my days If the
Jury says So but put Dave ALEXANDER
where he can't break up any more
homes. .
my wife tried to get a divorce, but
when / told of her conduct with Alex
ander she lost her suit. 1 loved ner
when I married her, and love her stu,
In spite of all that has happened.
did not intend to shoot her last n1gnt
and if some of the shot struck her IL
was accidental"
The funeral of Alexander was held
Sunday at the home of his father,
farmer living near the city.
When Hill drove into Coffeyville and
gave himself up to the officers he said
that after the shooting he walked to
the home of his uncle, several miles
distant. and spent the night there he
brought with him the shotgun with
which he killed Alexander.
II came in just as soon as we coulo
get the farm work done in the morn
ing" he said. IT'S the first trouble l
ever had in my life"
Propped up in bed and covered with
bandages where stray shot from the
first two loads fired by her husband
had struck her Mrs. Hill said that she
did all she could to save Alexander
life.
I'VE had the lines tied to the side OF
the buggy and were driving along in
the moonlight when suddenly a man
appeared in the road ahead of u.s." said
Mrs. Hill II saw 1t was Bill Hill.
Without a word he fired at US. l tried
to turn the horse around and he fired
again, tearing the top of the buggy on.
Dave fell from the buggy in his EFFORT
to get out, but I grabbed the whip and
tried to strike Bill with 1t. l wanted
to stun him so he couldn't shoot at US
again and so Dave could have a chance
to get away I told Dave to run. At
first he wouldn't.
"Riil stepped back and reloaded his
gun, and then Dave started down the
road. Bill took after him and shot him
in the hand. He shot again when he
got closer and that time the load struck
Dave in the back of the head. Dave
fell dead, and when 1 got up where
they were I fell over Dawes body and
cried. Bill cursed me and said: There's
your Davy, now take him.
Mrs. Hill is very pretty woman
and only 10 years old. She has dark
hair and eyes and is noticeably at
tractive. Her mother, Mrs. McFar-
land, was riding in a buggy only a
short distance ahead of her and Alex
ander and passed Hill as he lay in
wait for his victim. Hill had seen
both buggies pass up the road In the
early evening. The mother believes
Hin intended to kill his wife also and
says that he has tried 10 do so three
times before.
Once he attacked her on the street.
said Mrs. Mcfarland, land II an Of
ficer had not appeared he would have
choked her to death. Another time he
shot at her through a window of our
home after they had separated. At a
country dance in this neighborhood he
threatened to kill both her and Alex
q ander, and one day when she was In
town he tried to drag her from a
buggy, but friends interfered and
separated them"
Hill was taken to the county Jail
Both he and Alexander come from
good families and have many friends
The country neighborhood where the
men lived is intensely excited, but it
seems that there is more sympathy for
Hill than Alexander. Hill will plead
that he killed Alexander in defence of
his home.