The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-13
SUTTON FIRM
Sticks to Her Story That
Son Was Beaten to Death.
THEN SHOT BY LOW BRUTfS"
She Says Her Boy Appeared to Her
After Death and Said, Mother,
Dear, I Never Killed
Myself"
THEN SHOT BY LOW BRUTfS"

Annapolis, Md, Aug. 10.--Rcmarka.
BILE letters written by Mrs. Rosa B.
Sutton, mother of Lieutenant James
n. Sutton, whose death ut the marine
barracks here on the night of Oct. 12
1907, is being Investigated by the court
of inquiry. were read before the court
The letters had been written to Iiar.
ry NJ. Schwarz in the pnymnster's Of
.ice of the marine corps ut Washing
ton. 1t came out that Schwarz had
turned over the letters to the judge
advocate, Major Leonard. Schwarz ap-
parpntly was the close friend Of young
Sutton.
In the letters Mrs. Sutton declared
that her sons companions conspred
at Carvel hall to beat the young lieu
tenant that Lieutenant Utley was the
prime mover in the plans. that he. Adj
ans and Ostcrman set upon Sutton
and beat him until he was almost
dead and that her son was shot to
cover up the alleged vicious attack
upon him.
AS the letters were read Mrs. Sutton,
who was on the stand all the while.
wept freely. In the first of them she
said.
"Those brutes that killed him are
alive and seemingly doing well, while
my poor boy is dead five months to.
day. Oh God! How could those men
be such brutes? Tell me. can trust
you as one that knew and liked jim.
mie, and / will write you. When tell
you how dear Jimmie was beaten up
you won't wonder my heart is broken.
He was dead or nearly so when shot
and that, I believe, was done to hide
It,"
In another letter she wrote:
"My Jimmie was beaten to death
The shot was only fired to hide their
crime. His forehead was crushed.
nose broken lip cut open. teeth knock
ed out. big lump under his jaw from a
blow or kick and an incision in the
back of his head one and half inches
long"
Again she said:
81 consider them worse than wild
beasts. for I always supposed II was
only the latter that killed the helpless"
self" continued the mother in anoth-
err letter to Schwarz, twas the greatest
that could exist between two persons.
IF Jimmie met with an accident | felt
it at once. Well, the night those
beasts were laying their plans for
Jimmie an awful fear came over me
and my two daughters so we could
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one another from fear of bctraying
our feelings. The next day Mr.. Sut-
ton came in and asked if | could stand
some awful news. He told me that
Jimmie was reported to have killed
himself.
'Then Jimmie came up to me and
said: Mother, dear, don't you believe
it, 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 Il 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 tcetl,
knocked out and the lump under his
jaw, 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 to live and
clear his name.
Il proved some things he told me
were true, and after repeatedly de
manding the evidence after foul
months l got it. and within the last
month 1 have proved everything he
told me.
Nothing could separate Jimmie
from me, not even death, and Adams
Utley, Potts and Osterman will never
know moments rest on earth. Why
, should they?"
Mr.. Birney demanded to know upor
! what evidence Mrs. Sutton based thu
!. foregoing accusation. She replied tha
the testimony to her mind proved it.
She was mercilessly cross examined
but never faltered In her statements
and Mr.. Birney could find no vulnera
BILE point at which to attack her testi