Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-11-25

She had been friend. and I missed
her cruelty. It was really terrible
loss at q time when I much needed a
friend.
Gas we grew older Richards dia-
holical habits became only shrewder.
not less assertive. He contrived the
most ingenious schemes for my tor.
ment. He Inundated me whenever
possible before other boys and, better
for his purpose, before girls.
"Sly father put us out to school to-
gether. and this suited Richards pur-
pose admirably. How ! hated this
thing that bore my name and my blood !!
1t became an indomitable hate. 1t
exists to this day. No human being
ever was so hated by another as my
brother Richard was by me-and is
Is to this moment and will be hated
while breath remains in my body.
"When was eighteen my father
died. and Richard ar.l inherited the
estate under trusteeship to continue
until was twenty-one. Richard was
then twenty. In anot'.nr year he at
tanned his majority. He was profligate
and wild. hesvy drinksr. a coarse.
cruel boor. licentious young ruffian
who had suffered twice in actions
brought by weak and unfortunate
girls.
1T irritated him beyond expression
that he had to wait the slow process
Of my. coming of age before he could
come into his share of the property.
His constant desnennOr toward me was
violent. Several times tried 10 estab-
lIsh the reasonable relations which
ought. in convention. to exist between
brothers. 1t was quite hopeless. and
my hate for this boor came to be an
insane passion. It remains as pas
sion now. :.
II may not he able to satisfy anyone
that this was the inevitable conse-
quence of the treatment given me. hut
! could if I were to elaborate the de-
tails-or merely state chem. However.
my purpose is not so much to indict
my brother as to record my own .tri-
umph-tO assist the commission of a
crime which has been of intense salts
faction to me, crime in which I have
maintained my culpability with JOY
and from which Richard has suffered
and is suffering.
"He is broken old man. He is in
a penitentiary."
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" became little more assertfve of
my rights and dignity. with the result
that our quarrels were more violent.
tried to fit myself physically to meet
Richard, hut he was very sturdy. and
his profigate habits had not vet IN
dernined his health. When resisted
him physically ne had tire better of me.
Three times he knocked me uncon-
scfous. Once I was m in bed a week
as the result of beating he gave me.
Frequently he threatened that he
would kill me. He said this often and
openly, with every evidence Of earnest
ness and determination. Later that
counted against him.
II was not cowed, and with the great
hatred firmly rooted was willing to
accept the unequal struggle with him.
1t was joy to hate him, fight min.
even to be beaten by him. I had re-
gained enough courage to seek socfa-
bfrfty. It WAS difficult, because his
refined sense of cruelty led him to
search me out, wherever 1 might be
with my friends, and to humiliate me;
If possible. before them.
zone night had been at tavern
in the village with some boys of my
acquaintance when Richard, being
drunk and very violent, found me. and
there was scene in which he made
loud threats that he. intended to kill
nae.
Zone of my friends persuaded me
to go home. At Hartley house We
walked the distance from the house
to the village in those days. l sci
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