Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-18
''Kid Carter" Declares in Court |"
Killed Mildred Donovan After Be-
ing Sentenced for Life, for Muir
der of William H. MACPHERSON.
CoId-B|Ooded Details Told Reporters Had Murder
10 My Heart Asserts Jennings.

Mildred and | were pals. She woulc
do anything for me; but thought
her father would make her give me
away. The night killed her. rode
To the end of the car line with het
We took a nice long walk and then
we talked matters oyer. had had
too much trouble in getting away from
the police before. and | wasn't takin :
any chances again. From our con-
versation | decided that she was GO
ing to turn against me. Then murder
came into my heart.
She died easy. | choked her for
Is minutes. pressing both ny thumbs
into her mouth. She didn't struggle
Very hard But see this broken fin
ger nail She bit that. 1t takes about
four months to heal and | have been
in Jail a little ever three months nov
That's the only mark | bear from tbs
struggle with her Mildred died. at
exactly 7.55 o'clock know that. be-
cause the bells in the town clock oa
the square struck O'Clock five min
utes after she stopped squirming.
After her death | was getting ready
to make my getaway. See this raia
coat. | bought it the next M 5rnins
for Il disguise. See this blood. here
and here and here. | had this coat
on when l shot MACPHERSON. That Is
MacPherson's blood. was just about
ready to get out of town when | shot
him But there was murder in MY
heart
Jennings said he was resigned u
his fate. Il am wiling Ia take any
thing they give me- even the chair.
l do not fear the chair have played
my cards in luck until. today. Now |
played the last one. | never did Il
DAYS work in ny life. I was always
out to get the money without work,
and | would let no one stand in the
way. Lots of times have beaten the
cops.
ut was only in 1910 that l beat them
at their game in Jackson, Mich. siy
partner, Bert smith, was found guilty oil
murder in the second degree but l go'
out of it i was mixed up in lots of 9TH
er murders, but they were in the western
part of the country where they have ne
electric chair and | can safely say tina
no man was hung for any of the crime:
| committed.
II place the blame for all my troubles
with the police When l was a little kit
they locked me up without any reason
put me in cell and beat me. They die
it many times. If | had been used al
right when | was young, l would be al
right, today. That's my story, boys
Following Jennings confession, late to
day, the authorities of Suffolk and Mid
desex counties renewed the investigation
into Mrs Donovan's death. Some Off
GERS We're detailed to look over the rec
ords of cases in which Jennings nam
had figured in other years. 1t wa
thought possible that others of tn
many murders to which he had con
fessed had occurred in the vicinity o
this city, where he had lived and tough
and plundered for many years.
The former prize fighter is likely to b
placed again on trial for his life, wit
the murder of Mrs. Donovan as the issue
District Attorney Higgins of Middlese
county in whose jurisdiction the Done
van murder occurred, tonight, said:
Jennings confession is not news t
us. The inquest into the death of Mrs
Donovan showed that Jennings was re
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