Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-10
HER SON
WAS MURDERED
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shearer than comes in for further at
%tention.
Just get a copy Of the A. and N. Jour
nal of October 10 and see the expression
on Potts face" she suggests TO Swartz, and
adds:
adams, Utley and Osterman's faces viii
be enough To convict them, You will see
that Jimmie is the smallest in this class,
and vet u took three big men to do him
to death. shearer looks like an e~X-convict.
willing turns in the picture a little from
Jimmie showing they we're not on good
terms"
on the cross-examination Mr.. Birney in
sisted that Mrs. Sutton explain why she
made these derogatory
She retcrted that she could express an
opinion about Potts face without intending
to mean that everyone criticised was Inn
plicated in her sons death. She insisted
that the contents of her letters to Swart2
had been arrived at through reading the
testimony and a sense of deduction and
that she still held TO her original belief.
Her Love for Her Son.
THE love between Jimmie and myself"
continued the mother in this letter to
swartz, was the greatest that could ex-
list between two persons. If Jimmie met
with an accident 1 felt II at once. Well,
the night those beasts were laying their
plans for Jimmie an awful fear came over
me and my two daughters; we could not
talk, and each kept away from the other
for fear Of ~betraytng our feelings. The
next day Mr.. Sutton came in and asked If
1 could stand some awful news. He told
me that Jimmie was reported to have
killed himself.
"Oh, God, Mr.. Swartz." the writer ex-
claims, IF Jimmie had not spoken to
me / would have died. Then Jimmie came
up to me and said: Mother, dear, don't
you believe 1t, l never killed myself.
Adams killed me; they beat me TO death
and then Adams shot me to hide the crime.
He told me how they laid a trap for him;
how he walked into it,; how Utley grabbed
him to pull him out OF the automobile;
how they held him and Osterman beat
him. about his forehead being broken, his
teeth knocked out and the lump under his
law, and how, when he was lying on the
ground some one kicked him in the side
and smashed his watch. He begged me
not to die, but 10 live and clear his name,
Well, after three weeks. I proved some
things he told me were true, and after
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a month l got it and within the last month
have proven everything he told me
Nothing could separate Jimmie from me,
not even death, and Adams, Utley, Potts
and osterman will never know a moments
rest on earth. Why should they?"
Satisfied in Her own Mind.
Mr.. Birney demanded to know upor
what evidence Mrs. Sutton based the fore
/, going accusation. She replied that the ties
timony TO her mind proved II, together
with certain letters that she had in hei
= possession.
She asked Swartz to make a confidan
Of no one unless he was sure to whom h
1 spoke, saying that she did not want any
h one to suspect anything until she wa
5 ready. She criticised the fact that tn
. officers. following the tragedy, had beel
despatched to different posts,
Il cannot understand why everyone can
- not see they are trying to hide the rea
e crime and protect those men. II we can
l. not get justice through the courts, ever,
newspaper in the United states shall haV
e these facts as we have them, and thel
e see what the opinion OF the world will be-
d The fourth letter was dated May l6. Il
n II Mrs. Sutton told of having received
e letter from young Owens, the chauffeur
and said that she would inclose a copy o
that letter 10 SwaTtz.
You see from that" she said, tina
4 Adams sat on the front seat I suppose n
thought by stopping the car # would star
n a fight. and when he found It would no
A he started at Jimmie anyway. I firml,
r believe Il was Jimmie who called sentry
n when he saw Owens leaving and realizet
what those wild beasts were up TO. an