Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-11

}pElvate secretary. Philip Chaloner, OF
my friend and servant, william 9onnes.
and OF the chief OF police. oOennsll
himself. lam debating this J: sitete.
smout. #.4# +.
- Twenty-Five years 5axol / came 10
New York. Since that time my ca
Ereer has bsen ntAoe9uehly ue1pleitod.
The detective force Of lie city. e nm,
}plemented BY whatever talent could
1besprocured or 4suborued. has had me
/ under investigation. i 10 not ono act
! have they been able TO point Of witch
! L AM ashamsd, or upon which ethey
! could Az an attack.
when ! came to New York I vas
nineteen years Of age. I was born In
Vermont. l received Z common school
education. graduating from tho high
school when + was sixteen. My father
daed before was born. my mother at
my olrth. Some small property &c
cruing to me was turned over to me
~ my guardian on my graduation
rom the high, school. spent two
years ct sea % q cabin boy. and then
drhted west, finally bringing up 1t
XIII Devil Camp In Wyoming. q
There came under the influence
OF woman older than l, who thought
It not unbecoming to her to sheg,,ile
and entrap' the young eastern tender
root who was Just entering upon his
nineteenth year. l was young. mex
perienced. impressionable; I.fell COM
pletely under her influence. There II
something to be said for her. DOOR
woman. She was married to a5drunk.
en- brute Of husband, miner. =
gambler. who was not only sunfaithful
TO her. but who abused her fright
fully. I think my sympathies more
than my affections were engaged. I
had q chivalric desire to help. her, 4
boys reverence for womankind
abused. and suffering, quixotic spirit
of!kntght errantry; OF which even now
1 am not ashamed.
Il had still some little money left.
and resolved to take her away from
her intolerable life. / do not wish to
shelter myself behind q woman: but
1ihave always told the people Of New
York the exact truth. and am do
Ing It 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 blix-
zard OF 1882, which is still remem.
>bered In the west It was very late
when reached her cabin with tho
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.
We had turned to the door to go
out, although 1t was almost certain
death to be abroad In such q storm.
when her husband entered the room,
How he knew. or" whether he knew.
what we were going to do, 1tcannot
say. At any rate. he was there. He
covered me with gun: was entire
~ helpless. He declared his inten.
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. saw from the look Of his
eye that would have little time to
draw 1t. realized that unless could
I was doomed man. At that in.
slant there was fash 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. dropped my own weapon and
bent over him. There was hole in
his breast through which the blood
was 0ozing.'
who shot him?" growled the chief,
who had been listening with the great,
est absorption to the narrative.
'The woman shot him." answered
Gormly. But you need not put tina,
in, Chaloner. Let it go as I 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, tore a blank leaf
from a book and wrote upon it that |
! 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
through no fault of mine.''
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