Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-03
KIRBY'S MESSAGE FROM CRAVE"
PROTESTS INNOCENCE OF AIDA
HAYWARD'S MURDER LAST May

all kinds Of money right now to keep
me from the outside world; and sue
ceeding.
THE whole case from beginning
to end has been rotten with graft
and politics. l have even been de-
MED my constitutional rights. l do
not complain, but suffer, and feel |
cannot stand it much longer.
THE above are true facts and it
is up to my wife to say If they shall
become public or not.
May God bless her and help me.
HARRY A. KIRBY.
Inclosed with Kirby's death state
ment" was the following note to the
man who delivered It:
If anything should happen to me.
will you be good enough to see that
my wife, Mrs. r. H. Crawford, re-
ceives my final message?
Wife Stopping With Mother
The last heard Of her, she was
stopping with her mother and step
father at Saco. Me. Her mothers
name Is Mrs. George w. Hill, Box
372, Saco, Me. Phone number.
Biddeford 518-Y.
Her parents are very much
against me and I would take par
ticular pains to see that she receives
It,.
IF you can DO this for me am
sure God will bless you for it. 1 can
only thank you. Sincerely,
III. A. KIRBY"
In the same pocket was a third let
ter addressed to his wife and an
nounctng that he would be dead be-
fore the message reached her. This
letter reads as follows:
RUBY dear:
| II You ever receive this letter, It
will be after am dead, and gone to
meet my Maker. l am putting my
faith in the hands of a man of God,
and he has promised me faithfully to
see that you receive 1t, and / believe
him.
Il am very miserable. both in body
and mind. I have prayed constantly
that God would take me away. Ruby
you will never know what I have
been through. but have already
paid the price, If mental torture can
pay 1t. wanted to see you so bad
before the end, but know that it
must have been impossible for you
to come.
Thought Of Baby
1T Is real hard to think OF leaving
the world without seeing you and
my baby. I constantly think Of her
| last little kiss and her tattoo. And
think Of you, my good pal-it Is
driving me insane. I shall have but
| faith and the same old love for you
| to the bitter end.
| this jail. have been in solitary
. confinement now for over q month
and during that period have had Just
four and one-half hours Of exercise.
I have had very little food outside of
| toast and black tea and once a week
some beans.
Il believe the Hayward money is
doing this. However, the wages of
| sin is DEATH Everything here Is
| corruption and graft and booze. The
| inmates here are drunk half Of the
time and so is the.
Hundreds of people have been al
| lowed to come in here and stand be-
| fore my cell door looking at me.
Il sincerely pray that God will
| bless you, dear. and that after it Is
| all over you may have some of the
| good things of the world. But al
ways remember that no man ever
| loved woman with a cleaner love
than that which have for you. No
| matter what else 1 may have done.
my love for you was pure, and you
alone know it.
Victim of Ambitions
Il allowed my ambition to better
| our conditions to run away with my
! brains and the result is this. I am
| not allowed to see your dear face
| once more nor see our dear baby.
l Of "a
bit. But 1t is hard not to be able
| to say farewell. have tried hard to
| make my peace with God and man,
! and l am no coward. 1 have prayed
hard and sincerely that God would
see fit to end my earthly punish
ment and still hate to feel that l
can not know some things I would
like to know. But II it is his will,
so be 1t.
II am but a society outcast-a
derelict, adrift in a sea Of hate. with
no home port on this earth-ever
thinking of the days that could have
been ami now can never be; days
when the doors of the future stood
wide open before me. inviting me to
what? Happiness-a life with you
and our beautiful baby. and have
cast 1t all aside-for what?
God alone knows how 1 regret It,
and he knows how I feel for you.
But the mental torture! cannot
stand it. I have never been wicked
because I wanted to. AS a matter of
fact I have always wanted to be
good, and that is one reason why I
love you, because I know you are
good and wholesome. But there
were times when I really coald not
help 1t.
~"There Is no use in talking. It was
not my lot 10 be happy, but God
knows I wish I could have spared
you. know you will forgive me
Ruby dear, and know you will not
think me such beast as others do.
l could give a hundred lives and en-
dure untold tortures. Just to hold yon
In my arms once more. suppose
by body will be kicked around any
old way.
Pray for me. trust we may meet
in the after life. Farewell to my
baby and to my wonderful pal. Your
broken hearted Joe."-The Boston
Post.