The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-06

HCelndD FOr0, mas written a statement,
in which he gives the story of his past
life. His purpose in doing this was TO
create. better opinion of him among
residents of Salt Lake before his ap-
preaching trial on the charge of muir
der Up to the time of the writing of
his autobiography. Sullivan had been
silent concerning his past. This Gre
ated the impression that he had a
criminal record to conceal and dared
not to go into details of his movements
before his arrival in Utah.
Sullivan refuses to tell anything def
mite concerning his family, explaining
that he desires to shield them from
sharing i'm his notoriety.
He declares that he was never in
prison until he was sentenced TO the
| Utah state penitentiary from Ogden.
| He asserts that the police are in err
rOr when they assert that he attempt
ed highway robbery in ogden. The
| trouble he said, grew out of a dis
puJe in which he drew a revolver with
which to defend himself against three
assailants.
/ Concerning his attempt TO break jail
| in ogden and the cleverness he dis
played in that line he declares that
his ingenuity was due to his training
as a machinist. and not because of a
! familiarity with the tricks of Grim
! inals.
Writes a Clear Hand.
Sullivan's statement is written in a
/ clear, round hand, with a pencil 1t
/ shows that the man is better educated
1 and more intelligent than the avera ge
criminal of the class in which he is
put by the police
I'm a supplemental statement. made
! to his lawyers. Bailey & Vickery, Sui
Ivan says that he lived in a ten
room house in the city of New York
and had lived in that house for eigh-
teen years before his departure for
Panama. In New York, where ground
is very valuable, only families of con-
| sidera BILE wealth live in "ten-room''
/ houses. Most of the jewellers in the
metropolis occupy flats. For that rea-
/ son, Sullivan's father, if his descrip-
/ ton of his childhood home is true,
must have been a man who occupied a
| substantial position i'm the world.
Sullivan's statement is as follows:
Il was born in New York in the year
1879 and received what education I
have in the public schools of that city
After leaving school | served my time
at learning the machinist trade in a
marine machine shop of thai city. l
worked there until 1897, when / shipped
to Panama Central America | work.
ed in Panama at a small town eighteen
miles inland, putting up steel bridges
for the New Jersey Steel and Iron
works I stayed there about four
months and then shipped aboard one
of the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany's boats for San Francisco. En-
route to Frisco l found out that the
Vulcan Iron works of Frisco had a
$500, 600 contract from the Mexican gov
eminent to build a breakwater for said
government at Manzanillo. on the west
coast, so / went ashore at ManzaniIl0
and worked there at putting up ice
machines and erecting a general ma
chine shop.
Goes to San Francisco.
Il stayed there six months when l
was taken in with yellow fever AS
soon as l was cOnvaiescent | took pas
sage for San Francisco, where l Sc
cured employment on the ships plying
between San Francisco and foreign
ports. | worked aboard the Oceanic
Steamship company's boats plying be-
tween san Francisco and Sydney, Aus
tralia / also worked aboard the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company's boats
plying between Frisco and Panama and
aboard the United States army trans
ports, plying between Frisco and Ma
Mia. l kept running on the different
lines OF steamers out of Frisco until
l was thrown out of employment by
the big strike of all the shipping in
dustTies. when l went to Bakersfield
Cal. l worked there in the new oil
fields for the Reed Oil company of
Stockton. Cal. and / also worked for
the Stanislaus Oil company at Coalin-
ga, Cal / also worked at some of the
large packing houses of California in
the capacity of engineer.
L then came to Nevada. where /
worked a the new tunnels on the
Central Pacific railroad for Erickson
& p. Peterson. / then came to Ogden,
Utah where / got into some trouble
and / was tried on the charge of as
saut with a deadly weapon and sem
tenced to serve three years IN the Utah
state prison. / was also sentenced to
serve two years for Jail break. / have
never been in prison in my life until
/ came to Utah. and l was never ar
rested or convicted until I hit Utah.
Denies Story of Marriage.
THE newspapers of Salt Lake have
got me tried. convicted and sentenced
before 1 am brought TO trial. They
also accuse me of having married a
girl in Emery county, Utah / will
state this, that ! never knew there
was such place as Emery county IN
the state of Utah until | read of the
assertion in the papers. The man that