The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-15
BISMARCK GRAIN
FURNISHED by Russell Miller Coz
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Apparitions Kept
Slayer in Mental
Pain Almost Year
Continued from page one)
at first that the family left for
Oregon and had hired him to take
charge of the farm.
He remained mistaken in this
story until last Thursday. when, at
a preliminary hearing of a charge of
embezzling $50 worth of the Haven
property, he revealed the Haven In
FAINT was dead.
He told of other deaths, but MAIN
tanned he had no connection with the
killings. Finally he confessed Satur-
day that lie killed the Havens, after
leading authorities through numer-
u stories which he now claims
were f%abrications. He revealed where
the bodies of Mrs. Haven and her
son, Charles, up to then u%ndiscover-
ed. could be found.
He was pursued by the shadows of
the killing wherever he went and in
whatever he did, Damon said. Some
day, he thought, he would tell all.
Less than a hundred feet from the
Haven farm home, in which he lived
since the murders. were buried four
of the bodies Of his victims.
All Bodies Found
A few miles away. in an. old In
dian burial mound on his mothers
farm, were concealed two other
bodies. As he worked in the barn,
he walked on the graves Of those
he had killed.
"Why didn't you tell to relieve your
conscience?" Bannon was asked.
II thought of my mother; I didn't
want her to know what I had dor.e,"
he answered.
A few minutes before the inter-
view, Mrs. Bannon, saddened ~ the
sudden turn of events which oiALds
her son, by his own admission as
a murderer. and caused her hub.
bands arrest for murder. visited with
her son.
She had urged her son to tel! the
, truth and was present when he made
his first admission of guilt.
Mrs. Bannon, after her visit Will
! the youth, said she believed hi
3 story. She came from the cell con
: vinced her husband was innocent
and that the entire crime was car
ried out by the boy.
! But her mothers love for the DO.
had not lessened.
: He is still my darling" she said
. IF I could die to take his place,
! would gladly do So"
: Damon was taken through tn
/ workings of his mind since tn
. crime by the interviewer.
"Like Going Through Hell"
; 1t was like going through hell" h
3 said.
Z Il feel better now. Il couldn'
:. sleep at first and ] lost my appetite
: It bothered me a lot, but now tina
/ have told the truth, I've got a bl
load off my mind"
What do you think about in jail?
Il don't think so much about tn
affair any more, not since I've tol
the truth.
Il used to dream about the affai'
Once / dreamed Mrs. Haven wa
standing OYER my bed with q knit
In her hant. and l got up with
jump. I was pretty jumpy In thos
days.
=. Then I used to dream about til
- bodies in the barn, which bothere
me q lot, and sometimes I would sc
:. the earth moving over them in m
sleep.
II used to lock the house door
night because l was afraid. 1t SCENE
to me people were always peeplr
in, and I chivered every time l hea,
- an automobile pass down the roa
One night I dreamed a snake g
in through a hole somewhere ar
:. when it came in the house
changed into a man who looked lii
Haven. He came and stood over n
=. bed, staring at me for a long time
What were your thoughts WHIT
you MIXED the COWS in the bal
where the bodies were buried
Damon was asked.
AOIIoC1CiCC OOtAtNAS0 ssA
otis hard to describe, but it w
:. terrible. / used to milk in the da!
: and did som other work. and I kne
1 was walking over the spot. I W
afraid of the Clerk"
Bannon wal reading a popul
magazine before he was cuestlone
He had changed considerable In a
pearance from the day prcvio
:. when sobbingly he poured out
story of the crime. At that time
face was drawn, eyes staring wild
.. as he approached hysteria.
Today he appeared freshened a!
laughed at an occasional joke. ]
spoke smoothly as though he We
-. recounting the details Of some simE
-. task he Lad performed.
' Several times he expressed rel
=. because Il told the truth"
80. Il felt awfully bad. but as SO
as I told the truth it made me II
-. better. l knew right after l did t
-. thing that I couldn't always hide
-. and l knew I couldn't always Ike
-. it a secret.
80 Questioned as to the stories tt
-. before. he confessed-That a neig
Dor and a stranger killed the Have
and that he was forced to bury I
dead-Bannon admitted they W
vas falsehoodS
pts AhOuSut W WIN AsNo :,
ort Where did you get your Id
'aM about oil those stor' esp" he WAS q
cd. Ibid you net them out OF W
~ Weet sto;. e. you had reaqP'
RIO" he said calmly. Il thouI