Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-17

for Jesse Bfsa6!s she cried. y hate6.
and despi,cd him. But no VA willlns
70 marry mo ana take me- away rom
Ninsveh, and o KEEP my mouthishst
and waited for him to como and Do II"
" am going to ask you. Miss Dos
sett," said Major Gentry Dryden.
.vhsn was the hrst time JON saw
Jesse Bream after Colonel Todhun.
ter's visit to you that dayf'
II didn't see him TIL the day before
this hero TRIAL begun, sub. He had
rome away to M things up for mar
ryin' me and takin' me down soms-
where in Oklahoma. and he didnt
como back till then"
.What time Of the day did you $50
hjmr'
II reckon twas long about three or
fo' O'Clock in the day, sub. he didn't
come clear to tho house cause he saw
grandfather settin' on the front gal
lery. But he give whistle knew,
and went out and met him."
'Where did you meet him?"
"In little clump O. woods cross the
road, not far from the old cabin where
Aunt Mirandy Ransom and old Jed
Ransom, her husband. two colored peo-
pie, are nvtn', subj"
what had he come TO see you
about!"
"He come to tell me that everything
was ready for US to run away that
very night. He was plannin' to drive
over into Rails county. and we'd get
married there and then start for Okla.
homa. And he'd been drinkin' and was
bragsin' about how he'd killed Siam
Tucker. It was then knowed for the
nrst time, from his own lips. that II
was him that killed Siam, but I'd been
certain Of it in my mind all tho time.
Did you consent to 60 away with
himY'
YES, sub, and vs went away tossth-
er. The first day and night he got to
drinkin'. and when we stopped at the
hotel in Sidon he Quareied with me,
keepin' on sayin' that was in love
with Tom Strickland and would blab
about who did really murder STAN
Tucker If 1 got half q chance. And
somethin' l said then about my wish
in had told the truth at hrst skeefed
him. Stead O. stayin' in sidon till he
was ready to 90 straight to Oklahoma,
he took me away from there the next
day. We went fur. too, and he was A.
ways a-watchin' me. At daybreak one
mornin' we come to . tumbledown
cabin deep in the woods, and he said
that's where we'd stay TILL dark. and
then begun to be skeered myself"
"Of what were you afraMr'
81 begun to feel skeered that he waS
a-goin' to kill me. We had quareled
and quarreled, and whenever lost my
temper good and proper I told him tho
truth-that oughtn't to leave Tom
Strickland to be hung when I knowed
Tom wasn't guilty and knowed who
was. Then-well, all Of 4 sudden We
had our biggest quarrel. and what I'd
been skeered Of come to pass"
What do you mean by that, Miss
DoggettT'
II mean that Chickasaw Jesse tr4ed
to kill me, sub. He sorter went crazy
and Jumped Tor me with his bowie
knife in his hand, and I'd ha' been
dead the next minute II it hadn't been
for Colonel Todhunter. sub" !.
For Colonel Todhuntsr?'
Eyes, sub. Colonel Todhuntef bust
ed in the door o. the cabin that very
minute, bringin' the sheriff o Rails
county along with him. Him and the
sheriff both had their pistols sighted on
Jesse and made him throw his knife
down. And then done what I'd want
ed to do all the time. told them Il
was Chickasaw Jesse Bream who had
killed Siam Tucker"
And what happened when you did
| that?"
The girl shivered. 81 don't like to
think about IT. He made me feel like
cowardly hound dos"' she said,
new shame in her reckless eyes. Jesse
Dream Just laughed and folded his
arms and looked at me and then at
Colonel Todhunter and the sheriff and
said that I told the truth. I killed
STAN Tucker because he ruined Lotde-
May he said, smi!in'. And / run
away with her to marry her. But she's
tellin' the truth now to get shet o me.
and / don't care what comes next.
Take me and hang me: In. done: :
(To be Continued)