The Washington times., 1918-12-02
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was on trial for her life. would you
like for any man TO keep back the
truth when you knew she was limo
cent?
-"of course I says no to that. and
I he says for me to 20 odwn and tell
the truth. So come down for the
sake OF that scout No one need thank
me for what done. 1 amt no soft
soap guy To. hell with all that cry
baby stuff. That scout up there do
ing a bit for something he never done
Is the party that has to be thanked IL
m ystory frees Elizabeth Baksa. He
tells me that's the wal 1 can pay
back society for some OF the things
done.
81 told him Id do 1t after he kept
at me. and I'm here doing what I
promised him. But they'll never get
me to tell the name of my pal in the
Hamel murder. He's went straight
| since then. He's all right. That's his
business.
Refused To Reveal SPal.,
1.-THE district attorney can't under
stand that When he queStioned me
told him I'd come down to go on
the stand. and that I would not tell
my story on the stand. Them the
girls lawyer come in and my lawyer
' come. In. and they got me to sign the
confession that has been printed. Mr..
Swami told me he'd give my pal i'm
munity IL I'd tell him who he was
He said he only wanted to know who
he was so that he could corroborate
my -story.-I told him this was- one
story he'd have to take without no
corroboration.
That strikes Mr.. Swami so peculiar
that he Immediately thinks I'm crazy.
| He thinks I'm crazy because I won't
peach on a pal. That's Mr.. Swann's
idea OF being crazy.
HE went out and got some doctors
and they buzzed me for two hours and
then they told Mr.. Swami that 1 was
sane. But that don't make no diff
ference TO Mr.. Swan. He's got to
send that girl to the chair. and here
am confessing that done the muir
der and that kind of stops his plans
and so I'm crazy.
Sentenced As Sane.
"If I'm crazy how is it that I'm
serving a sane mans sentence in Au-
burn? II I'm a nut 1 ought to be in
nut house. Amt 1t funny how dis
trict attorneys amt got no sense OF
humor?. I guess It's the job they got
that makes them that way.
"Anoher thing: They want me to
say that my father died in the insane
asylum on Wards Island and that
his name was some Jew name. Litten-
berg or something, and thRt that's
nv name. Ny right name Is James
Burns. amt no Jew. / was con
armed by Archbishop Cusick. I'm
what you'd call alias Jimmy Regain.
since I've been down here they've
tried something else that's funny
They get a girl friend of mine over in
Brooklyn and they send her to me
here in the Tombs hoping to bring
out the jealousy stun. They got the
idea that this girl can get me to take
back the truth. She says to me:
Jim, dear, don't you ever want to
come home to me no more? Why
don't you say you didn't do It? You
would say that IL you wanted to see
me-
Going to Tell ''rruth.-
"They say that a lad that turns
on few tricks and slaps a few guys
with a black jack is bad. But, oh. boy!
Wait till you know some OF the stuff
I do about the dear old law when IL
gets busy to convict somebody!
I'm going on the stand tell my
story. I'm going to tell the truth.
I'm going to say I done the murder
and that the girl is innocent. That
the truth. II they believe me, all
right. II they don't"
Regain stopped and lighted a fresh
cigarette.
"And IL they don't then whst?"
81 thought you guys had some imag-
nation" said Regain.