Arizona republican., 1913-12-28
From Determined Lips of Ralph Fariss. Young Ban dit and Murderer-Learns That His Mother Knew the Truth
NEEDED MONEY,
 so TURNED ROBBER
Woman Who Flits Through Drama Located-Bos Fariss Confesses She's His Wife-PhoeniX Pc lice at Fault
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 LOS ANGELES, Dec 27.-Hiding under the name of John Bosuck. even after he had passed virtually into the shadow of death, Ralph Fariss, the 24-year- old train robber who was sentenced today to be hanged, maintained his fictitious identity until told this afternoon that his parents, crippled father and an invalid mother, might come from Bakersfield to visit him before he starts Monday for the death house at San Quentin. Then his spirit broke, and he not only revealed his true name but declared that the mysterious young woman who fitted unnamed through the chronicles Of the case since Wednesday, was a girl he married while working as waiter in Marion City, Iowa. Also, it is declared. he confessed to the old-up in Fl Monte, and the mur- der of Montague, because he expect ed so to escape the gallows.
 The sentence of death was passed by Judge Craig of the superior court, after legal proceedings of only two hours and eighteen minutes. Fariss said this shattered his fondest hopes. Until told that his parents knew his predicament, the young bandit, 1t is said, prepared to go to his death with both name and the fact of his marriage a secret.
 As BOstick. he was arrested on Tuesday in San Francisco at the in stance of MT. and Mrs. Arthur Colen two of the victims of the Fl Monte robbery, who recognized him in the street, and as Bostick he confessed tC the Sunset Express robbery and the murder of Montague, and today when he appeared before Judge Craig to plead guilty and receive sentence he solemnly affirmed he was John Bostick, the name of an associate in Bakersfield which he ap- propriated as his own.
 He declared he became train robber because he needed money to enter the restaurant business. His criminal career started in San Fran cisco in 1908 when he robbed the room of a friend and was sent to the lone reform school. where he remained ten months before being paroled. Previously he had gone t. school at Bakersfield and Los An gees. where his father. d former southern Pacific railroad conductor, is pump man. earning seventy dollars d month. After leaving lone he be- came restaurant waiter, and work ed in Chicago, New York and Ro- chester He went thence to Marion City, Iowa
 T made the trip home every year tc see my mother he said, and came from the east to San Fran cisco about week before I robbed the train at Richmond. on November 1 14. and got $400 in that robbery"
 But you said you were broke before you robbed the Sunset EX- press two weeks later" interrupted an interviewer.
 Fariss ignored the interruption anC gazed at the floor, habit he haC through the interveiw when he die not wish to answer question. T paWned an overcoat for $2.0( to pay my fare to Pomona when 1 boarded the train. All I got wa: | S105 and a diamond which I paWnet for $75 The people I robbed stated i the loss was three times that much suppose they thought they coulC collect that much from the railroad
 He gave no information concerning his wife, but once or twice d tea
 ran down his cheek when aske
 about her.
 Perhaps your friends. or the pub lie generally. when your confession
 known together with the fact tha
 you waved all legal rights. and
 has been such a short time sine
 you received your sentence, will tr
 to have your sentence commuted,
 was suggested.
 "Oh, I don't know he answered
 I hardly think so. You see m
 people are poor