The chronicle=news., 1914-09-28

Pueblo, Sept. 2S.--lt was an alb
solute silence OF five long month,
that Lemma Crosse broke Immediately
after he received life sentence In
the district court Friday. The pris.
oner had acquired the sobriquet oi
"Grose. the SILENT" because Of his
inclination to say nothing whatever
regarding himself to any one, in par
ticular about the manner In which
Max Newman was murdered In his
little store on Union avenue. last
April S3.
But after the suspense OF waiting
to know whether his path after the
trial should be to the gallows or 70
the penitentiary was over. Grose con-
sented to talk.
Now, that it's all over" Grose
was asked just after the trial
whats the straight of the Newman
murder? Did you kill Newman or
did McDonald?"
Il am willing to tell the absolute
truth OF the matter, now that ! have
been sentenced" replied Grose. NC
Donald killed Newman, just as he
said he did on the witness stand
yesterday"
1t is recalled that Grose's partner.
Mcdonald, took the entire RESPONSE
bility for the murder, in testifying
at the Grose trial. This was direct
ly contradictory to McDonalds for
mer statements when lie himself was
on trial, and also contradictory to
the detailed statement of the killing
that he signed on May 4. the day
after the arrest OF Grose and Nc
Donald.
Grose consented to proceed in his
own way, clear up all the several
mysteries that have sprung up. incl
dental to his confinement in the
county Jail, He admitted planning
The jail delivery on June l. but said
there was no mystery whatever
about. the razor with which he as
saulted the turnkey William Nc
Clelland. ~
"A Mexican smuggled the razor
into the jail, and hid 1t In a broom
1t dropped out OF the broom one day
and l got hold of 1t. The only time
l had an opportunity to get out of
the bullpen. was when my mother
used to call to see me. So OH that
day as she was leaving and the turn
key was returning me to the bullpen
l carried out the plan. Kinder was
Just as much bent on 1t as l was.
But the minute he was put back in
Jail he began scheming on what he
could do. With a third term in
the penitentiary staring him in the
face and on top of that the offense
of Jail breaking. things looked dark
for Kinder. He might have gotten
IA years.
"The very next day he sent word to
the district attorneys office that he
could produce the story that would
convict met III he was to be treated
right. So he was taken into the dis
trict court and made a statement
that was practically the same as Nc
Donald's had been, claiming that was
the way | told it to him. 1t was a
lie out of whole cloth. | never said
Newman killing. I had newspaper
clippings of my experience here. and
in other places. That's where Kin
der got his information about my
record. He conversed with McDon-
aid and got the story he had told OF
the killing and made up the rest
absolutely made it up"
did you and Mcdonald have any
thing to do with the assault on
Williams, the Trinidad lumberman
as Mcdonald confessed that you
did?"
That's the only act of McDon
aids | don't understand. have {
good theory, however. In the frs
place Detective Joe Winterbotton
got him to make the confession. Win
terbottom approached me on the sub
jject, too. He told me that it was al
lup with me, anyhow. and that ther
was a $500 reward offered for tn
assailants of Williams. I would tall
to him about it, SO Mcdonald mad
out this confession, claiming that
killed Williams.
after we got to Trinidad I prov
ed an ailbi. The sheriff wired t.
Arizona and the warden there in
formed him that was in Jail ther
at the time of the Williams mur
der. That knocked the props ou
from under the states case. and the
refused to entertain McDonald's stor
further Maybe he just wanted t
string the police" .4,
What did you have to do wit
the delivery at the Oklahoma priso
last spring when Ave men were kill
led?" ,:
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