The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-02
HE OWNS The GUN
Revolver That Killed Mrs. Boyer
Property Of II. +. Taylor.
Had Loaned the Weapon to
Jackson Wright.
SHOOT SOME RABBITS.
That Was His Excuse for Want.
ing to Use 1t.
Murderer Talks More Freely to
Reporter.
SHOOT SOME RABBITS

A change of circumstances was
brought about in the Boyer murder
case this morning, when it was learn
ed that Jackson Wright borrowed his
revolver with which to kill the nurse,
from Harry F. Taylor, of 400 East
Laurent street, the day before the KILL
ing. Taylor is employed by the Cen
trel Sash and Door factory in North
Topeka and worked with Wright in
the factory.
Wright came to me at noon Satur-
day." said Taylor, "and said he wanted
to borrow my revolver. I asked him
what he expected to do with it. He
told me he was going out in the coun-
try Sunday afternoon with a woman
and was going to shoot some rabbits
He didn't say who the woman was he
expected to go with. Neither did he
tell me whether there would be third
person in the party. loaned him my
gun and it is now in the hands of the
sheriff. I saw it last night"
Taylor said Wright had never talk
ed to him about any trouble with the
Boyer woman and that so far as he
knew Mrs. Boyer never came to the
factory to see him. "If Wright was
drinking Saturday" said Taylor, "I
could not tell it. He worked all day
and quit at the same time the other
men did,
Wright Says It's Blank.
Jackson Wright, the murderer of Mrs.
Martha Boyer, was in better humor this
morning than at any time since his
arrest. Wright expressed a Willingness
| to talk to a State Journal reporter, but
+ still denied any knowledge of the muir
! der.
Its all a blank" said Wright, land
| 1 don't remember anything from the
! time 1 left Mr.. Combs until I was be-
ing hauled away in the patrol wagon.
to take me to the institute. She did
this several times when 1 was drunk.
| "Once a couple of months ago, so she
| told me, I was wandering around in
Garfield park. She came to me at
night and somehow got me to the in
/ but when I came to my senses, I was
there and she said she had brought
me.
| About a month after that she hunt
| ed me up again when I was drunk and
cared for me till 1 sobered up. She
knew 1 was drunk Saturday night and
she must have been hunting me. i
never started away to see the woman
and don't remember ever being with
| her."
Asked about the second man in the
case, Wright said, Second man, no,
1 never saw him. Maybe he was the
man who shot her. But no, those peo-
pie said 1 did it, but honest L don't
know it if I did,
! Wright said he did not see the auto
mobile that came up just as he shot
the woman, he denied that he had quar-
relied, or had ever had any intention
of harming the woman.
I eff I had just married her ano
sobered up,'' he said, this thing would
have never happened. She was the
! only friend 1 had and she took care
of me and nursed me when others
cursed me and threw me out in the
oh
dead: surely not. Why last night as
sat here with my head in my hands
/ she came and talked to me and told
me to sober up. She said she loved
me and I saw her just as plain as
see YOU; and she smiled and told me
could quit this if 1 just tried. But,
guess l must have been dreaming,
said Wright, as he clung to the bars
with his hands and pressed his race
! close to the cage to see his visitor
Tears stood in Wrights eyes as he told
of his drunken debauchery of the last
three months and how the woman had
loved him and tried to bring him back
to a better life.
cell a few feet away. AS he turned he
wiped his shirt sleeve across his face
to dry the tears. Several times his
voice choked and he stood looking into
space as if reviewing his past.
'sYou made mistake the other day
about my folks" said Wright, after a
moments hesitancy. ''My, mother is
dead. Dad lives with my brother al
/ Thomasville, Georgia, except when he
visits my other brother in Florida
When I was a little boy mother used
to hold me on her knee and she asked
me to grow up and be good man; but
she never knew what life led. Tn
glad she don't know what trouble an
in now"
Wright has not employed an attorney
"I haven't any money to pay a law
yer" said Wright, ''and I guess from
what they say a lawyer won't be able
to do much good anyhow"
Wright's preliminary hearing will bt
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