Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-21

WAS there any other understanding
between you and the police2
II won't say"
How long before you confessed 10
the police was il that you talked to
Ocksreidsr?"
"a couple OF days"
what do YOU mean by a couple of
sven, it was two days before"
Did you make your first confession
to the police on October 1872"
Yes"
Then you saw ocksrieder on Oct.
1eg''
Yes"
t!Elo OF day?"
- tine afternoon"
Did you understand when you
su 10 the police
hat Won We're 20 plead not guilty to
murder I'm the first degree: that when
you got into the district court YOU We're
10 plead guilty when the charge was
changed TO murder in the second de-
gree?"
THAT Is what the arrangement was"
What punishment did you CXpect?"
"A life sentence or less"
What do you mean by less?"
Il don't want 10 say now"
Did this arrangement with the de-
tectives include any provision with re-
Il don't want 10 talk about Ken
nedy?"
Did You tell the police in your first
confession 20 them that IL was a negro,
and not a white man. who was with
you when you held up Nebeker?"
II don't want 10 say"
Were you and Kennedy ever
brought into the detectives's office to-
gether. aud did the detectives ever
question and talk with You and
Kennedy al the same time, In the same
room ?"
Il don't want to say"
TIRED OF BEING BILKED.
why won't you give full answers
TO these questions Pc
Because / am suspicious OF every
body and / am tired OF being bilked. %
us there anybody in the world 20
whom you would talk freetly?"
Yes"
"Who?"
III I had a good. straight lawyer
that / knew would stand by me TO the
finish. / would tell him everything
that has happened l would tell Il all
10 my father
Have you heard from your father
since You We're arrested ="
mo. I. tried TO communicate with
him, but they wouldn't let mo-"
What are YOU going 10 do2'
Il want a LAWYER good, straight
lawyer. 1 want TO talk 10 my father
II ! get a lawyer that will stand 10y
me / win fight from now on 9ut
am afraied 10 talk TO anybody else but
my father"
"Who was the negro that you say In
your public confession was with you
when you held up Nebeker?'
Hnnff lfnnKu
What Is his nance
II don't know"
do you know that the police have
said that they are going 20 relcas'
Kennedy on a fioater?'
Yes"
did you confess 10 the police that
you murdered Rilcy?"
Yes"
did you tell the police In your nrsi
confession Go them that Kennedy had
no connection with the holdup or IN,
murder Of Rileyf'
n won't say"
As he talked and answered questions
J Driskell never moved. lie kept hil
face turned sideways and his gaz,
averted. Driskell raised his eyes oncs
and held them steadily as he gazed a.
reotly into the eyes OF his questoner
! Driskelfs eyes are very Hight gray
| They are strange eyes The lids ar
usually squirting But Driskell opened
his eyes wide when be- looked directl,
al his queftioner.
After long pause, during Nhici
Dfiskell never dropped his eyes, ho wa
asked "Driskelll Did you kill Rileyl'
Drskoll paused for some time beiou
answeirng. His eyes kept wide opeI
and clear and hrm.
Il won't say" he said IN q low TENS
tone. he still stood and looked via
light-sray iris turning 10 bluisi
white like the cornea Of his eyes. Art
er STANDING for several minutes, mo
tionless, Driskell turned away.
Il want a lawyer" he said again
and would say no more after that,