The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-23

to 1t. but affirmed that he did not read
II. as he couldn't read. neither was 1t
Immediately. though, he, admitted that
he had not asked that ii be read to him.
In excuse Of his professed ignorance
OF what happened to him at the city
jail. DrIskell said that in addition TO be-
ing mistreatcd and being drunk he was
using opium, Detective Sheets also came
into his cell frequently. waving bloody
shirt and carrying a revolver, exclaiming:
There's the shirt of the man you mur-
dered, and here's the gun you killed him
witbn'
under oath. this as an unqualified false
hood.
Then he was taken upstairs Drisl1ell
says, and placed In a cell with no water.
The trustees. he says, were instructed
TO give him no water and not TO come
near him. Then Ocksreider was put up
there by him. in the corridor When he
asked for permission to call an attor-
ney he was told that he was getting
along well enough without one, he says
Every day persons were brought up to
ferent crimes, the order TO bring him from
his cell usually taking this form. he tes-
tined:
Bring that murderer out here"
Which would make anyone believe he
was a murderer. whether he was or not
Driskell oplned.
Drlskell unwillingly admitted, however,
that none OF the police ever told him
he was charged with anything else,
Then Ocksleider offered 10 act as his
attorney, Driskell says, and although he
he accepted his services ocksreIder
brought him 50-ceut bottle of whisky
with the remark that he was a lawyer
Driskell testified Then Ocksreider set TO
work to get a confession from him. tell
ing him that that was the only way to
evade the gallows. One afternoon Ocks-
reider came in with pad and pencil and
wrote out what DrIskell now supposes
a confession tba wiinpSs Sni1
had drunk considerable whisky. though
and was pretty sick, he testified: Drls-
kell says that he told Ocksreider he
him to make his mark on the paper
What became OF this confession" Dris-
kell says he doesn't know
Tried to Bribe Ncbeker
This. Drskell thinks. was Friday.
About Sunday OcksTeider returned. de-
clarlns that Nebeker and several others
Riley. and that he was up against II. !"
Ocksreidcr represented TO him, Driskell
says, that he had tried to bribe Ne
beker. but had failed ard wanted him
TO make a clean breast OF everything
Driskell says he was taken back to
the boys ward then. but wouldn't make
a statement. He told Ocksreider he want
ed something to eat and Oclsreider got
him beefsteak and some whisky. A
few minutes later Ocksreldcr entered
with 'phony' message TO the effect
that the governor here had refused 10
honor the requIsltion OF the governor of
California for his return to that state
and he was free, and repeated his re-
quest that Drlskell confess Insisting that
that was his only chance to escape exc
cution. but Driskcll says he told him that
he hadn't killed anybody and refused to
make confession.
Detective Sheets then took him TO the
office. with other officers scattered about
the room. Ocksreider then told the Of
ficers that Driskell had made clean
breast and that he refused 10 handle
losing case. as was Driskelrs. Driskell
says he told him that he wouldn't have
to. Ocksreder then read the statement
TO which he had affixed his mark, Dris-
kelI says which turned out to be a
the confession and was taken back TO
his cell. Thirty minutes later Detective
Sheets and other officials took him into
OF whisky from small bottle, asked
him II IL was straight that he could
not sign his name.
III So Sheets told me. Driskell says,
this Ocksreder confession don't CO.
Signs Confession.
"rhey presented a piece of paper on
which there was typewriting." says Dris
kell. "and TO show them that l could
i signed my name to 1t. without asking
them to read II 10 me, That" pointing
is is my my signature. through ocksreider /
was double CROSSED into signing it,
Driskell stoutly denied that he admit
ted, the night OF October lS. before any
statement He says he knew nothing
about the contents of the paper until
the, party OF business men interrogated
him at the police station later, Then
he was forced to confess. Chief Barlow
read the confession to him. sentence by
sentence. and he admitted its truth.
Driskell testified that he even went so
far as TO demonstrate to the business
men and officers just how he killed
Riley. and Mr., Loofbourow forced him
10 repeat this illustration. AS Drisllel
stood up, with the revolver with which
he is alleged 20 have killed Riley I'm his
trousers waistband at his left side, d
he finished sigh of relief was. audible
all over the chamber; With the dis
trict attorney taking the place of Riley,
Drlskell stood TO the left. then stepped
whipped the weapon from his waistband
and placed it against the district at
torney's side.
When the business men asked him il
the confession was forced out of him.
Driskell says Detective Sheets inter-
s,,t %Ns; It's, It's oinch it couldn't be forced
Il replied no, thai, II had been double
crossed out of me-. testified Driskell. .
Driskel then fastened TO admit that
he didn't make any such Il statement at
When asked why he told Sheriff Sharp.
when he was taken to the county jail
October 20. that he killed Riley Drislsell
said that Detective Sheets had told him
that ''it is up to us to crack your neck,
and when you 60 TO the county jail you
tell them the same thing you told U.S.;
II you don't. we'll crack your neck. for
you know ii lies In our power.
Another Falsehood.
Chief Sheets, under oath. will give the
unqualified lie to this today. The only
| difference In Driskell's confession TO
Sheriff Sharp is that Driskell told the
sheriff that Riley hit him In the mouth
| with his gun and broke one OF his teeth,
| He admitted Tuesday that this was a
| falsehood and offered to show his teeth
In support of his declaration. He was
full Of opium, too, he said. which Chief
Sheets gave him. Chief Sheets says
| this Is a falschood. too.
| Driskell also denied that he told De-
tectives Chase and Burt Sheriff Sharp
and Mr.. Loofbourow. in the county jail
parors. that he was in cardroom in a
saloon at Commercial avenue and Plum
| alley when he heard the shots fired at
Riley, He knew Mr.. Loofbourow was
the prosecuting attorney. he said. and
he didn't propose to give him any line
on his defense. In this statement Dris-
| kell said that an old man came In and
| told him that an officer had been killed: