The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04

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after it was repeated several times be
said that his boy used to call him that
but he afterwards admitted that he
himself used to call him that. He de-
MED. that he had sent his wife to the
neighbors with note. Chaser asked
defendant to call his daughter from
upstairs and he did. O'Malley and
went into the dining room and after
about fifteen minutes Thur came in
there too. We were all there about
come into the kitchen and the girl
went upstairs again. Defendant denied
that he ever had any poison about
the premises and denied also of having
given the children drink while his
wife was at Kudlik's. The next night
Thur, Chaser and l went there again.
O'Malley told us to come in and we
sat down and he lit his pipe. Chaser
said: Martin, did you poison those
children and 0Malley said: L didn't
give them any poison in any shape
or FORM He said he sent his wife
to the neighbors Kudlik with a note
about a washing machine they had.
He said they had no use for it and
thought they might as well sell it.
Defendant also denied having sent the
newspaper over to Kudlik's which con-
txined an article about infantile pa
ralysis. Witness testified that at 10
time this night were there any threats
made or force used. Chaser told O'AIal-
ley several times, Now Martin, tell the
! truth About midnight O'Malley said !:
If you get the priest | will tell you
something CHASER said Traxler or
Thur will get one for you. | asked
/ if | should go and he did not answer
my question so | sat down again.
O'Malley asked me to step outside that
he wanted to tell CHASER something. Thur
and stood outside at the window.
| OMalley took hold of Glasers hand
before | went out. He said: Now,
Mr. CHASER, I will tell you the whole
thing Then witness went on and
previous witnesses, and as given in the
confessions. He stated that he heard
| it through the open window. Witness
| testified that defendant told him he
had given the children all the poison
he had left which was about Thin
BILE full. Defendant said that after he
had given both the children a drink
out of the glass there still remained
a little poison in the glass and when
he saw what he had done lie wiped
up the poison with his finger and put
| it to his lips. He said he would have
! taken more of it if there had been
more left. He said the poison made
him sick, that he vOmited three times
but after eating lunch he got over it.
Defendant stated that after we left
the first night that he had made up
his mind that if we came back again
that he would tell us all about it..
When he was brought to Jail on the
morning of August II he made the
same statement about poisoning the
children, in the presence of G.. Z. Bur-
nett, Joseph Spaetgens, Theodore EN-
mers and myself. In the afternoon of
Auglst IL defendants brother, Luke
OMalley came to the jail to see de-
PENDANT and the following conversation
took place between the brothers: Mar
tin said: Pm here again. His
brother Luke said: why don't you
get an Attorney Martin said: What's
the use, / poisoned those children, 1
am guilty, and what's the use of
spending my money; it won't do me
any good Luke said: What in the
world did you do that for?' Martin
said: The neighbOrs made fun of my
wife and her children and so l thought
better get rid of Them Luke said:
why didn't you talk to me before you
did it?' and Martin said: L didn't
think there was any use.' Luke in
sisted that he get an attorney. OMal-
lev said he wanted to see Kolars and
Luke said he would see Kolars. Several
days after that defendant denied hav-
ing committed the crime and | said
to him: What's the use of your
denying it? You made the same state
ment even to your brother Luke that
you poisoned those children and told
him your reason and everything He
said: Yes, told Luke that / poison
ed those children just at that time
my deputy and Fremont Holmes came
in and defendant made those same ad-
missions
Confession Is Introduced.
g. The FOLLOWING confession WINS inf m
duced in evidence: "Le Sucur Center,
Mimi. August IL, 1910. /, Martin
O'Malley, of my own free will and
without any offer of reward whatever.
or any threats or intimidation being
made by any of the persons before
whom / make this confession and
statement, do confess and state and
acknowledge it to be the truth that
met Mrs. Lizzie Prgl about month
before | married her, having married
her on the 18th of May, 1910. l met
her i'll her mothers house, being intro
duced by Joseph Staska. | knew she
had three children, having seen them
there the first night, we having gone
there in the evening. After the we'd
ding we went to live on the farm and
took the children to me about the Sec
ond or third day thereafter. They
lived with mo and my family after
ward. | came to church on a Sun
day with her and my wife's children
and two of mine and people made fun
of me and my wife, and l heard a