The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-11-26
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Copyright. 1903. by Monat. Yard Il Co.


my friend and servant, William Somes,
and of the chief of police, Connell
himself, I am debating this state
ment.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago I came to
New York. Since that time my ca
reer has been thoroughly exploited.
The detective force of the city, sup
plemented by whatever talent could
be procured or suborned, has had me
under investigation. To not one act
have they been able to point of which
] am ashamed, or upon which they
could fix an attack.
When I came to New York I was
nineteen years of age. l was born in
Vermont. received a common school
education, graduating from the high
school when l was sixteen. My father
died before was born, my mother at
my birth. Some small property &C.
cruing to me was turned over to me
by my guardian on my graduation
from the high school. l spent two
years at sea as cabin boy, and then
drifted west, finally bringing up at
Kill Devil Camp in Wyoming.
There l came under the influence
OF woman older than I, who thought
1t not unbecoming to her to beguile
and entrap the young eastern tender
foot who was just entering upon his
nineteenth year. I was young, mex
perienced, impressionable; l fell COM
pletely under her influence. There is
something to be said for her, poor
woman. She was married to a drunk
EN- brute of husband, miner, a
gambler, who was not only unfaithful
to her, but who abused her fright
fully. think my sympathies more
than my affections were engaged. /
had chivalric desire to help her, a
boys reverence for womankind
abused and suffering, a quixotic spirit
of knight errantry, of which even now
I am not ashamed
II had still some little money left
and resolved to take her away from
her fntolerable life. I do not wish to
shelter myself behind woman; but
! have always told the people of New
York the exact truth, and | am do
Ing 1t now. We had planned to leave
the camp on a certain night and ride
south to the Union Pacific. That
night was the night of the great bliz-
card of 1882, which is still remem-
bered in the west. It was very late
when I reached her cabin with the
horses. The woman was ready for
me, waiting eagerly in fact. Her hus-
band had recently won small sum of
money by gambling. That money she
took with her.
I'VE had turned to the door to go
out, although it was almost certain
death to be abroad in such storm,
when her husband entered the room.
How he knew, or whether he knew,
what we were going to do, cannot
say. At any rate, he was there. He
covered me with gun; 1 was entire
ly helpless. He declared his fnten-
ton of shooting me, and delayed only
that he might enjoy what he con-
ceived my fear of death, possibly my
pleading for life
II worked in desperate hurry, and
at last got my hand on the butt of
my pistol. 1 saw from the look of his
eye that I would have little time to
draw 1t. + realized that unless l could
/ was a doomed man. At that in
slant there was flash and a report
in the room. Immediately after the
man pulled the trigger of his own
pistol, but the bullet went wild. He
sank down on his knees, and fell back
dying. I dropped my own weapon and
bent over him. There was a hole in
his breast through which the blood
was oozing"
"Who shot him?" growled the chief.
who had been listening with the great
est absorption to the narrative.
1.-THE woman shot him." answered
Gormly. "But you need not put that
in, Chaloner. Let it go as / have
dictated it." He resumed to his ste.
nographer:
There was nothing that could do
for the man. It was more than ever
necessary that we get away. In pity
for the woman, l tore blank leaf
from book and wrote upon it that I
had shot this man. We left that note
on the body and plunged into the
storm. Words cannot convey the
frightful nature of the tempest. We
became separated in the storm
snrough no fault of NINE"
"Why the woman told me she threw
you down herself after you gave her
your horse" said the chief of police.
Don't put that down, Chaloner.
That's not necessary. Now" said
Gormly quietly, Gust add this:
after frightful experience 1 sue
ceeded in reaching the station. ]
came to Chicago, drifted about there
for awhile, and thereafter came to
New York determined to retrieve the
past. Whether have done so or not
1t is for you, my fellow citizens, to
Judge. Whether this story which re-
late to you now, because l am COM
PEELED to do so-natural1y not from
choice-destroys your confidence in
me and makes you believe that l am
unworthy of your SURFACES and there