The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-29

her it was too early to go to school
yet 1t was then $40. A few minutes
later she started out of the store and
1 went with her.
AS we were walking along she told
me her mother would not buy her the
books she wanted. Then L said to her;
you go with me and 1 will get you
all the books you need"
She agreed to so with me.
We walked up to Kansas avenue and
then down to Fifth street. From this
corner we walked out to West Fifth
On the way out Fifth street 1 began
to resent the way that her mother had
been treating me. We had almost
reached the vacant house. That alb
normal feeling that had always caused
me to commit crimes came over me-
1 took her to the front door OF the
vacant house on Fifth street and just
as we stepped inside I grabbed her and
tied her She didn't have a chance to
make an outcry.
Picking her up, 1 carried her down
the cellar steps.
If anything happened to her after
this l don't remember.
l STAYED in the house three-QuarterS
of an hour with her. Then 1 left and
went down town to the Mission pool
hail. on Kansas avenue between Sixth
and Seventh street, reaching there
about 9:15. I bought a package of
smoking tobacco and sat down and
read newspaper.
Then L went back out to the house
on Fifth street, entered the front door,
went down the cellar and looked at
the girl.
1 didn't touch her, but knew that
she wasn't dead.
| I Thea went upstairs and started
the fire.
! then left the house, walked around
| in front of it until I saw smoke come
Que of the windows and doors.
! l stuck around on the corner until
the fire companies appeared. then
went back home on the East side and
washed up.
| l changed shirts and started out to
deliver pies. 1 left the pie wagon at
/ Skaters restaurant and returned to
the house on Fifth street. I stood
near looking at the fire two or three
minutes, then went around through
the neighborhood canvassing for old
shoes 1t was during this time that
the police picked me up for the first
! time. A mail carrier saw me first,
questioned me and then the chief of
police caught up with me.
Story Crushed Them.
/ After the confession had been taken
/ Robert Miller was the only auditor who
was not sick Beads of perspiration
stood out on the foreheads of Sheriff
Kiene and Warden Codding. Judge
Lindsey hurried out of the room.
How can a man like that even be
allowed to eat and sleep and breath
/ Gods air?" he exclaimed, out in the
| hall
/ The confession had been taken down
by the prison stenographer in short
hand. He Transcribed it last night,
finishing it about midnight. There
are seven typewriter pages to it.
Judge Lindsey dictated short state
ment in which it is set forth that
the confession was made voluntarily,
I and without any force or promises on
the part of officials.
This statement was read over by
! BisSell this morning when the type
| written confession was handed to him.
He read the matter all through care
confession and statement in the pres
ence of witnesses. That was at $50
o'clock this morning, just before the
Topeka officials left the prison
Make 1t Easier for Parents.
Fred" asked one of the party, 'iiS
there any word you want to send back
to Topeka by us? We're going this
morning"
There's only one thing 1 want any
one to do replied Bissell, land that
is to go down to the bakery and talk
with my father and mother. I know
how hard this is on them. 1 don't
know what to have you tell them. But
if there is any way you can make it
easier for them 1 wish you would do
it,"
Reading State journal.
When the party left the prison this
morning BisSen was crouched down in
a chair in WashroOm-handcuff